Basically as the title says. I'm looking for some advice if you swaddled about what you did, how well it worked etc.
I have one DD already (who I tried to swaddle, but who HATED it, never liked to be confined in any way and always slept like a star fish), and am expecting twins later this year. It's going to be a bit of a juggling act! They'll also be pretty tiny through winter (original due date in December, but they're going to come out earlier), so I'm hoping that swaddling at night would help to keep them warm.
If you did it and it worked well, how did you do it? A friend of mine suggested swaddling for all day naps and during the night, but I'm not sure how this works in practice. Presumably you take them out to do nappies at night, then reswaddle for feed? As newborns are so sleepy, do they basically stay in the swaddle most of the day??? (My DD seemed to be either sleeping or feeding 80% of the time, and until she was 6 weeks or so old there was no pattern to when she would stay awake for a bit after a feed)
When do you stop using the swaddle? And is it difficult to make this change if it's a strong sleep association?
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Did you swaddle? Did it work for you?
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crazychemist · 02/09/2020 09:37
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