How long did you swaddle? - Page 2

[GuavaGirl]

Mine is 7 months and I've been swaddling since day 1. I have no clue when I'll stop. He still seems to need it when I rock him to sleep.

[meemee]

NEVER. dd hated it right from birth even at the hospital. she kept moving her arms till she got them free and was much more cranky swaddled.

[Miss Chris]

Well, I swaddled him last night again and I think his sleep was definitely improved (as was mine, ) so we'll stick with this for a while longer.

Thanks everyone!

[memz]

My DD is 8 months and still swaddled. We started swaddling around 4 months and her arms just kept moving and rubbing and hitting .....waking her up constantly. I don't know when I'll stop because she is not a good sleeper but she's better with it....still waking up every 1- 2 hours compared to every time we put her down.....

[LeaPea]

For those still swaddling, are you swaddling both arms or leaving one out?

[Knitting Mama]

She's swaddled completely, no arms or legs out. Here's a picture from about 15 minutes ago at our hotel in California:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2921072_n.jpg

She is perfectly capable of rolling around but doesn't while she's sleeping.

[patronus]

dd is 7.5 months and we're still swaddling. since 6 months we've been going through major sleep issues. i've tried to wean her off the swaddle a couple of times but she's not having it. last ped appointment i said "so, we're still swaddling..." and his response was "it's fine, she'll let you know when she's ready to be done with it."
it's reassuring to hear there are babies out there who were swaddled as late as dd.
for naps during the day at childcare she's sleeping unswaddled. her teachers said she was fighting it hard and she slept better without it.

my in-laws give me flack about it, FIL has said more than once that it was "borderline child abuse" and he wasn't joking (AND he used to be the director of child protective services). but they aren't the ones getting up with her a billion times per night (which is what would happen if we didn't swaddle).

[sarahr]

We had the same issue at the same age. We re-started swaddling at 7 months. It hasn't made any difference to his night sleep -- he busts out of the swaddle to quickly, I think -- but it has made a big difference to his naps.

[MamaPhD]

We swaddled kinda casually from birth until maybe 4-5 months. By the time DD was able to break swaddle we just let her whatever she could - first just loosening the wrap, then getting her arms out, etc. She liked getting her legs wrapped up for another 1-2 months even with both her arms out, though.

[Oliver's Mama]

we still swaddle at 6 months, both arms. It's kinda loose in a muslin blanket then we wiggles free once asleep for ten minutes, but will not fall asleep without it. On a related note, he will only fall asleep when swaddled AND in a bouncer-like chair. he looks rediculously huge in it, but it's the only way to get him into a deep sleep. I usually transfer him to the crib once he's been asleep for a bit.

[P.J.]

Originally Posted by Abraisme

Even at 6/7mo people thought I was crazy to still be swaddling her, but she loved it.

Yeah, we're still swaddling and our DS is 4 months. I guess the mainstream thinking says that a baby should only be swaddled right after birth or maybe up to 3 months maximum, because I've had way too many people telling me he's too old for it. It gets really annoying, and with people like my MIL and SIL they are here and see him go down for naps so I can't just not mention it.

I'm happy to read how many of you kept swaddling well past 6 months, and it's NOT crazy!!!

[ladyleah]

My little guy (well, bug guy00 he is 21 lbs!) is currently in a 1-armed swaddle mode (although he can easily pull his arm out because its just a large kiddopotamus organic thingie) and sleeps on his belly and he is almost 10 months old!

He has been sleeping GREAT this way for the 5 weeks for nights (7pm to 7am and only getting up once a night to nurse! holy crap! please don't let me jinx this!) and also needs this arrangement for naps. If we leave both arms out he feels the need to stand up in his crib and refuse to sleep (unless we let him CIO- I am sure he would go down on his own but we are not interested in doing that).

This being said, we had a hell time between 7 to 8 months when he wouldn't sleep at all unswaddled, but was miserable swaddled because he couldn't soothe himself when he woke up.....so finally we all learned...and he figured out that sleeping on his belly with a crib full of pacis (and one arm still swaddled felt good to him)......but it was a tough few weeks during the learning process!

As a side note, we also found that his sleep improved greatly when we moved his bedtime to 7 instead of 730 or 8. I was surprised--even though I have always heard "sleep begets sleep"--I didn't think that would help him sleep better.

I have finally figured out that I really CAN'T figure out the sleep thing though long term....so I know this great sleeping pattern will soon change, and I will hopefully just roll with the changes as best I can!