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when to stop swaddling?

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whattoexpect · 21/02/2011 14:47

My DS is small; 11 weeks old and about 10lbs. I've read that I should stop swaddling when a baby gets active; and then I read that a baby can be swaddled for months. My DS likes to kick his legs around and if I just put him under a blanket etc, then it will come off. I swaddle him for comfort, ie. not all the time. But is he too old now?

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BooyFuckingHoo · 21/02/2011 14:51

i swaddled my ds until he moved from the cot to the bed at 15 months. as he got older he did move and the blankets came undone but i just wrapped them gently back up again. it really helped him get off to sleep.

sparkle101 · 21/02/2011 18:21

Am still swaddling my DD at 6mths, otherwise like you she'd wriggle out of everything and she settles down well with it.

Bumperlicious · 21/02/2011 19:20

My dd2 is 5 months and just doesn't seem to settle if she isn't swaddled. I have no idea how we are going to stop!

simpson · 21/02/2011 23:09

I think at 11wks I was still swaddling DD but left her arms free iyswim.

Whn she got to about 5mths I switched her to a sleeping bag Smile

Beckie222 · 21/02/2011 23:17

I swaddled my DD until she was 6 months. She settled really well and I thought I would never get her out of it but I discovered a peke moe and it was fantastic.
It really worked for a swaddle addicted baby.

sparkle101 · 22/02/2011 14:51

Beckie, just looking at those as think we will have to move from swaddling soon, did you have to order them from new zealand?

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