Swaddling and rolling!

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For those parents whi swaddle their babies, at what point did you stop? Did you keep swaddling them once they could roll over or did you just stop?
DS (9weeks) still startles very easily in his sleep so needs to be swaddled for naps and bed. He has just started rolling over, not in his sleep yet, but when awake. He hates tummy time so I am worried he is going to get his head stuck in some odd position and not be able to push up.
If you think we should stop the swaddling, how do we go about weaning him off it?
Many thanks

At about 9 weeks I started leaving one arm out of the swaddle, not always the same one! When she was happy with that I swaddled under the arms so they were both out and gradually started the swaddle lower and lower. It took about 5 weeks but eventually I could stop swaddling altogether without there being a short sharp shock.

I did exactly the same, swaddled under the arms once my dds were able to turn over. And then at a later date, moved seamlessly onto grobags, oh they are wonderful!

Hello - I swaddled my little on until nearly 3monts old.... was told by nurses the tighter the better so he couldn't wriggle out of it! Used it at all napps and betimes. Worked a treat. Stopped when he started turning in bed / screamed to be turned back. Switched into Grobags at 10lb - just a baggier version of swaddling! Good luck

I swaddled until about 4 months old and I think many people are of the school of thought this is too long. She hated tummy time too but when she got to around 2 months she would wriggle her arms out so I'd swaddle her legs and tummy. I think i just relied on her letting out a bit of a scream if she was stuck. Switching to the gro-bag wasn't too much a problem although she did get tangled up because she used to sleep with her legs up like a chicken!

Good luck - I'm sure it will be fine.

we swaddled until 6 weeks - mainly because i'd read that it was hard to wean them off it if you left it longer. Went straight into growbag then. We just bit the bullet and stopped - I don't remember a major problem.

We swaddled my DS for a few weeks only. I think we probably were too tired one night, or I hadn't done it properly and he wiggled out, but we never went back. He fidgets a lot (and I mean a lot!) in his sleep, and used to kick his blankets off a lot, but hated being restrained, and used to just scream if we tried it. He gets hot easily, too, so we never worried that much. He doesn't kick the covers off now, though he still fidgets a fair amount, and he's a little over 19 months.

He was long out of the swaddling before he could roll over; we were told it was simply a way to help them adjust to life without the womb holding them tightly.

Incidentally, he hated 'tummy time' too, so we didn't fuss about placing him on his front too much. Once he learned to roll over and do things at his own pace he was fine with it.

My DS was swaddled until he decided he didn't want to be at about 6 weeks. I remember lying in bed in the dark and having him in his little moses basket next to me and hearing him really shuffling about and snorting and grunting - wondering what on earth he was doing. I turned on the light to see him waving his little arms about as if to say ' YAY, I've escaped' It did make me laugh and we stopped swaddling him from then on and he was fine!!