Swaddling Problem

[Bokkie77]

My 15 week old don't sleep without being swaddled, if I do leave her hands out she hit herself in the face as well as her dummy out of her mouth - then upset 'cause it's out.
In the current weather we have she get really hot and fretful being swaddled.
Any ideas would be much appreciated on how I can get her sleeping without being swaddled.

Hi bokkie you might be better off putting this in a sleep thread for more answers?

Can you put a fan in her room? My DS wouldn't sleep without being in his sleepbag even when it was 32C in his room... The bag was 0.5 tog so he was getting too hot. In the end, I got a cheap fan and set it up on a chair so it was blowing directly into his cot (not too close so he'd be too cold - about a metre away). This made a huge difference.

It's a tricky one. My DS (6 months) has always been the same - I've tried stopping swaddling but he's stopped sleeping. (However, he seems to have decided just this week that he doesn't like it any more - but that's another story...)

You could try swaddling her in the lightest weight cotton sheet/bit of fabric you can get, and have her just in her nappy underneath.

Alteratively you could try swaddling just her arms using a muslin. Lie it on the bed so it looks like a diamond with the corners pointing upwards and downwards. Fold the top point down a bit so you have an extra horizontal straight side where her neck is. Then tuck the muslin around her arms and under her bottom. Of course, this works best if you can do it just before she goes to sleep, and is difficult to do if you need her swaddled while you feed/rock her to sleep (unless you feed her lying down on a bed).

Is there another cooler room she could sleep in on a temporary basis? My DS sleeps in my bedroom, but as we have a south-facing loft room it is roasting during the day & early evening. In the hot weather, he sleeps in a 'downstairs' bedroom for naps and at night, he goes to bed in a carry cot in a cooler room downstairs, and then I take him upstairs with me when I go to bed.

A not-too-hot bath just before bed is another good way of cooling a baby down, especially if you let them dry by evaporation a bit rather than rubbing them too hard with a towel.

HTH