swaddlaholic

[blinder]

My 4mo dd loves being swaddled, but I keep hearing that it is safer to stop wrapping her after 3/4 months.

Problem is, when she isn't swaddled she wriggles, twists, kicks and grizzles all night (we are co-sleeping so I know for a fact that it is all night ). If she manages to extricate even one hand from the wrap, that can wake her up completely. Last night, around 3am, after listening to her wriggle about for 15 minutes (with one arm out) I re-swaddled her, whereupon she immediately sank into a deep sleep.

How do I get her from a swaddle to a grobag without resorting to restraints?

[Poppet45]

My DS was also a swaddlaholic and we had disasters each time we tried to get him into a sleeping bag, so I gave up and used a Peke Moe instead. Tis a fabby kiwi sleeping bag that keeps their hands in too, he slept happily in it right from the first nap and now our problem is ensuring he's still awake when we put him in his cot at night as he tends to doze off half way through his last feed as he is super snug and cosy. Can heartily recommend giving it a google!

[blinder]

Aha a gadget to solve my problem! Cheers Poppet. I've found it on ebay and will probably give it a try.

Does it matter that her arms won't be by her side?

[Poppet45]

What I did is put some of the excess material underneath him for the first few goes that way he can slowly pull his arms up once he's asleep but initially he's quite restrained. I also use a sheet over the top and tuck him in firmly. TBH he seemed utterly relieved to be able to move his arms at last and now tends to sleep with at least one over his face!

[mcflumpy]

We were same with Miracle Blanket. We now also use a Peke Moe and has been a great success for us.

[Poppet45]

They really do rock don't they? So relieved the spare one I ordered arrived today, just in time for DS to spit Calpol all down the first!

[mcflumpy]

We also have two. Have tried our DD in a sleeping bag several times but she is so restless so we're sticking with the Peke Moe for now which really does rock! She's 7.5 months but I think Peke Moe only go up to 1 yr so we're hoping she won't be a PM addict at that point!

[chumspam]

have been reading loads of posts about the peke moes and think I need one of my little one who can't sleep without being swaddled but is wriggling out of it with ever increasing speed. Apart from ordering from ebay directly from NZ, where can i get one?

[GrumpyFish]

Can't recommend Peke Moes enough. DS was fully swaddled until 7 months, wouldn't sleep otherwise, grobags were a disaster. And even fully swaddled he woke every few hours (mostly because he'd worked his way out of the swaddle). Peke Moe night one, he slept for 10 hours straight, and it pretty much carried on like that. I left him in the Peke Moe until he was maybe 14/15 months (by which point he was so big that it was becoming like swaddling again) and at that point he went into a grobag no problem.

chumspan - just order through the Peke Moe website - from memory ours arrived in about 5 days.