When did you stop swaddling?

[beijingaling]

When did you stop swaddling and start using a sleeping bag? DD is 3 weeks and happy to be swaddled but SIDS plays at the back of my mind so I'm curious as to when people start to use a sleeping bag instead?

Thanks

I started phasing out the swaddle at 3 months. Until then they don't have that much arm control so they wake themselves up flailing around. I sometimes still swaddle if he's got overtired and is waving his arms around.

We transitioned to sleeping bags at about 3 months too.

I would not think that swaddling would increase the sids risk though. If anything i would have thought it would have lowered it as baby is unlikley to turn over or move much.

We swaddled until she clearly told us she didn't like it anymore. I think that was about 2-3 months for us. She suddenly tried to get her arms out when we tried swaddling, and wouldn't settle as well as before. So we stopped and moved to blankets before finding sleeping bags worked much better!

We stopped swaddling at 3 months because DS fought his way out. However, after two months of no sleep we reintroduced it for a while but changed our method (using a folded cot sheet instead of a special swaddling blanket) and he slept much better. Now at 7 months he's in a sleeping bag. I think some babies have better arm control than others. Ours had eczema which made things a bit worse. We sometimes find that tucking him in very tightly under the arms with a cellular blanket over the sleeping bag keeps him snug, warm and safe (we keep the room at 17 degrees).
Have you heard of the Peke Moe 'transition' blanket? It's from New Zealand and certainly worked for us!

5.5 months - when DS decided he suddenly hated it and screamed every time I tried to put it on. Before that he couldn't stay asleep for more than 15 mins at naps without jerking awake, and would wake 9+ times a night without it.

Like Queenada, I'd previously put him in a sleeping bag (definitely by 6 weeks, probably earlier) but went back to swaddling at around 3 months - and his sleep improved drastically when re-swaddled.

I've never read of a link between SIDS and swaddling.

I've heard good things about Peke Moe too although I've not tried it.

Thank you. Following instinct seems like the way forward then.

It wasn't so much bout SIDS and swaddling just that from what vie read sleeping bags are the most recommended for preventing SIDS?

Anyway will continue to swaddle until it seems rit to stop.

Thanks!

Eek - 8 days
Our baby was happy to be swaddled when we were in hospital but a couple of days after bringing her home she grizzled if we swaddled her and seemed to be trying to fight her way out all the time. We changed to a grobag and she went straight to sleep. Our DD seems to relly dislike having her arms held down.