Ever an End to the Swaddle??

In most countries around the world, it's common to swaddle for the 1st year. We swaddled our son until he was about 7 or 8 months old. Our daughter was swaddled until 5 months. Use a bigger blanket and you can still swaddle her tightly if that's what she wants. Is she rolling over yet? Most babies prefer to sleep on their tummy's... once they can roll over on their own, or at least lift their head easily on their tummy, you can see if she prefers sleeping on her tummy. Everything I've heard about the 'back-to-sleep' thing is for young infants. Once they roll over on their own and have good head control it's ok for them to sleep on their tummys. If she's half-swaddled, she may not be able to manuveur onto her tummy. Babies on tummys don't have the 'arm-flailing' thing waking them up like back-sleepers. She'll eventually 'get it' and fall back to sleep without being swaddled. Starting at around 5 months for our son we just loosely swaddled him. It took a few nights but he started going back to sleep once unswaddled. We continued to loosely swaddle him for several months. Give her a few minutes (I know... 5 minutes feel like an eternity at night) to try to figure it out for herself. If she's still restless after 5 minutes, go to her and fix it. She's only 5 months old... that's a blink of an eye in her life... Regardless of what the books all say, you can rock her to sleep and help her gently without ruining her sleep habits for life.

my daughter is almost 7 months and still likes to be semi-swaddled. she likes to be wrapped up in her favorite blankie with he arms out...she has never liked her arms being pinned down. if wrapping her up is what it takes to keep her calm and sleeping just keep doing it. she may grow out of it eventually.

If she still likes to be swaddled try the amazing miracle blanket. It is exactly what it says. I have one for my 5 month old and she sleeps great.

My third child was a swaddle baby until she was 2! If she wasn't swaddled, you weren't sleeping. But, I found with my fourth that if I would lay her in her car seat and put the blanket over the front of her and tuck it under her it worked well. She still fussed a bit, but I would rock her in her seat and she seemed to settle for it. The first couple of nights it was still up and down, but after a week in the car seat I switched her to laying in her bed and tucking the blanket and now both my girls still love to be tucked in at night!

I've been swaddling and a few weeks ago (my daughter's 7 mos old) I left my daughter with my parents for a few days and they didn't feel comfortable with the fact that she could get out of the swaddle so easily so they decided to just put her to bed without swaddling. She still slept 12 hours straight. Not a peep.

But, all babies get to the point where they're ok without swaddling at different point.

So, my advice. Give the baby to a gradparent for a night or two and let them unswaddle the baby to see if they're ready to sleep without it. That way you can have a break and it can help the grandparents feel like they helped move your daughter into a new milestone.

My daughtr was 5 months old wen she started coming unwrapped from her blanket also. After a few nights of limited sleep because she would wake herself up with hitting herself, she started sleeping again....hope your little one adjusts well!!

maybe a sleep sac would work? our son loves his