Ready to Wean from Swaddling?

When we took our little guy out of his swaddler we started by only swaddeling his arms and leaving his legs free. We did this for 2 or 3 nights then we swaddeled only 1 arm and left 1 arm out. A few nights later we didn't swaddle at all. It worked great for us, but he was only about 4 months old and not a big mover so I wasn't too worried about him getting hurt. If you're at all concerned you're better off just stopping all together. Good Luck!

My daughter is 10 1/2 mos now and we had the same issue at 4 mos old. She was breaking out of the miracle blanket and beginning to roll over. I emailed the miracle blanket for advice on stopping swaddling. They said I should definitely stop using the miracle blanket. They recommend using it until 14-16 weeks or something (I cannot remember exactly, but it states it on their website). They had two recommendations, cold turkey or the slow wean off. I went with the cold turkey which they prefered and stated would take less time. I do not remember the exact process they recommended with the slow wean, but I think it was one arm in and out thing. It was hard for about 2-3 nights and then she was sleeping through the night again.

Hope this helps. If you have specific questions, I do recommend emailing the miracle blanket people. They replied to my emails quickly and I remember finding them very helpful. I love that miracle blanket. I was sad when I packed it away.

Hope this helps. Good Luck!

The same scenario happened with my son. I did end up going cold turkey because I was afraid he'd get tangled. I switched to the sleep sack so that he still had an indicator that it was time to sleep. The first week was tough but he ended up turning over within a week and everything went back to normal.

I practiced rolling over with my son maybe that helped who knows.

I don't think I went to him during the night and he only cried for a few minutes before going back down to sleep.

I never used a special "miracle blanket" just a waffle weave type material blanket and watched the Happiest Baby on the Block video (I guess I'm a visual learner) to help me do the best swaddle. When she started busting out of the swaddle but still seemed to need it, we used two blankets and double swaddled and she couldn't bust out of that!

We also went through the same thing. My 6 month old LOVED his miracle blanket but he was waking up out of it and I became nervous. We started with putting him in sleep sack at naps to get use to it at 4.5 months. The first two nights we took him out of it he was fussy and got up more. By day three he was completely free! Now just shy of 6 months he is sleeping 13.5 hours a night in his sleep sack. Good luck!

I swaddled my baby for a ridiculously long time, like six months, because she slept better that way and it was winter and she was snuggly and warm. We did have problems with her getting her arms out of the swaddle wrap, so I would put her into a sleep sack but not put her arms in the sleeves and just zip it up with her arms in the body of it. It worked well.