To drop the swaddle, or to NOT drop the swaddle??? We have decided to NOT drop the swaddle quite yet. Avery sleeps really well in her velcro swaddle, but sometimes we have to get up in the middle of the night to re-swaddle her. She will wiggle her arms out of the swaddle and if an arm gets stuck and she can't get it out she gets really frustrated and starts to cry. So, last week I attempted to wean her out of the swaddle during her naps and it did not go so well. Most of her naps are an hour and a half long and she would maybe sleep for a total of 10 minutes in her sleep sack and cry the rest of the time. (That might be why she has been sleeping 11 hours at night, because she was hardly sleeping during the day!) So, after consulting one of my favorite blogs, Chronicles of a Babywise Mom, and talking with Chris, we have decided that Avery isn't quite ready for the sleep sack. Last week was torture trying to get her to nap in the sleep sack so I'm looking forward to the cry-free naps again. I just hope she will continue to sleep well at night! Sleep sack-- we will try you out again another time!!
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We cut out the swaddle at 2 months....like you said hadley was getting her arms out anyways...I would leave arms out if they get out its a way she will start to break herself slowly. Best of Luck
2 months must be the time that baby arms try to escape. We had trouble with swaddling anyway, so we just 'swaddled' below the arms.
I want to check out Chronicles of a BabyWise Mom...Baby Wise as in the book!?
I could be remembering wrong, but I thought we swaddled Lailey until 4 months at least. I tried the arms out thing too, but I don't think she liked it as much. She'll just adjust and then go back to no crying again. It'll happen!
Oh, I sure remember those days! I don't think Wells was done with the swaddle until at least 3 or 4 months, although he was getting his arms out pretty early on. We just started swaddling his body without his arms-might have a couple of rough naps at first, but like anything new, it will soon become old news. Hang in there!
I remember at one point we started leaving one arm in the swaddle and one arm out and it helped. But, then we started swaddling with both arms out like suzie said! :) Then I bought some of those "bag" type things that you zip up but there arms are out of it but there legs are all zipped in them....don't know what they are called.
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