Swaddling my 11week old

[SweetLikeChocolate]

Up until what age is swaddling advised ?

My dd is 11weeks and ha always slept swaddled. It has always been a firm swaddle with her hands up at her chest. In the last few days she is struggling to get her arms out but if I swaddle her with her arms out she waves them about and is unsettled. If I try to tuck her arms back in she gets irritated. Any ideas? Is this developmental?

yes its developmental, have you tried swaddling her with one arm in and one out?

my dd is 14mths and STILL has to be swaddled to go to sleep! she gets out once she is asleep and is fine but to wind down and go to sleep she has to be swaddled, my boys all grew out if by about 3mths.

i would try different swaddle maybe, my dd likes to have her arms down by her sides! or experiement with one arm in and one arm out. is she struggling to get her arms out and getting upset?

DD3 preferred sleeping swaddled until she was nearly 6 mo. You soon find out when they've had enough because they kick everything off. If your DD is doing that then she's had enough. Babies will still jerk themselves awake though at that age- Can you wait till she's asleep and then tuck the arms in?

Exactly. Seems really annoyed by it all of a sudden. Did 1 arm out work for you? This is really disrupting her. She usually sleeps amazingly and settles fast but the last few days have been poor and it is taking it's toll on her. She loves her sleep.

Will try and re tuck when asleep. But she is sleeping lightly so nervous to wake her.

my dd woulndt have the one arm method, my ds4 did but he sucked his thumb, always his left thumb! so i left that arm out obviously. my other 3 boys just moved to grobags as this point.

i have heard good things about the 'woombie' i may have spelt that wrong, its a kind of swaddling grobag but they can still move their arms in it but not up to their face? might be worth a google.

it may just be she is getting ready to not need swaddling but is in the transition period and so still finding it hard to settle and her reflexes will startle her.

Sorry to butt in! I'm also swaddling my 11 week old twins but I put them down tired but awake. I don't want to be rocking babies all night. They cry a bit and then calm down and drop off. Do ou guys also swaddle them and then put them down tired but awake?

i do with my dd yes :) have done for a while now, to begin with i used to put her in the pram and rock her a bit if necessary and then woudl lie next to her in bed if i needed to (we co-sleep) but now i just put her down swaddled and give her a kiss and leave her.

with twins i can well imagine you need to put them down awake, as long as they arent getting very upset and it seems to be working it sounds fine, i guess you could always pat/shush them if you needed to help calm them?

DS2 was swaddled until 4 months and DD was 5 months. They are all different.

Our dd did this too, no matter how tight the swaddle she would wriggle her way out and then get annoyed with herself and couldn't get back to sleep til we reswaddled her. In that end we got fed up as we had to do it more and more, and just went cold turkey one night and left both her arms out. It was a couple of nights of disturbed sleep and then she was fine as she got used to her limbs!

Would you guys swaddle during the day?

yes for naps, not for when awake, well i would if she was a bit fussy ie unwell and it helped settle her, but only when very little. she still gets swaddled now for her daytime nap, stays swaddled for that sleep actually and then i swaddle her at bedtime but by the time i go to bed she is unswaddled and i just leave her as she now sleeps fine in the night once unswaddled, i did used to have to re-swaddle her in the night.

Both my DD and my DS would only tolerate swaddling for about 4 wks then they wanted to wave their arms about (and legs).

we had a swaddlepod for DD1. it was basically an elastic jersey sack with a twoway zipper up the front. It worked brilliantly as she could move within it but it restricted her movement enough that she could get off to sleep. She used to have her hands tucked in just under chin with ther little fingers curled over the edge of the neck.

i got it from Amazon. it was by Summer Infant. THere are other makes of the same style. Wombie was one i think though they were more expensive and a bit stiffer.

Ds was swaddled until 7 months ish. From about 4 months he was swaddled with his hands under his chin as he was a thumb sucker. I only stopped because I felt I should move to gro bags. Ds was totally content being swaddled and would giggle excitedly when you laid him down to swaddle. He wouldn't move a muscle when asleep even though he was cruising round the sofas etc. Just got my fingers crossed that ds2 will be the same when he arrives in a few weeks!