swaddling

[Gio71]

In an attempt to get 6 week old ds to sleep longer at night I have ordered a miracle blanket to swaddle him in. Am a bit confused by conflicting advice on swaddling. Certain books advise not fully swaddling after 6 weeks to help prevent overheating, others say its ok up to 4 months. Any advice??

[tribpot]

No idea what the 'after 6 weeks' advice is all about, I swaddled ds til 5 months, i.e. when he could wriggle his way out of it.

Make sure your ds is lightly dressed underneath, cool room etc. But I would frankly have bitten anyone who had tried to take the swaddling blanket away from me at 6 weeks (Actually I don't think we started til about 12 weeks).

[mckenzie]

I swaddled DS for ages, until he was big enough or a sleeping bag and back then they didn;t make sleeping bags so small.
It didn't do him any harm at all and he was a great sleeper.
As long there is no danger of overheating (ie heating off, room well ventilated, not too many layers) then he should be fine.
IS he in your room?

[Gio71]

Yes and planning on him sleeping with us until 6 mths i think. Do you put a blanket over him Mckenzie or just swaddle blanket? Did you have him in a babygro or just swaddle over his nappy? Tribpot did your ds take to swaddling straight away with you not doing it from birth?

[Gio71]

thanks for advice-fingers crossed that the miracle blanket lives up to it's name

[tribpot]

Gio - I think so - ds had reflux and we had 12 glorious weeks of never (I literally mean never) being able to put him down flat. I remember dh swaddling ds one day and being honestly shocked at the result. Do it!

[Gio71]

swaddling works!!! 5 glorious hours of unbroken sleep in between feeds on the first night of trying it!Feel like a new woman.