Transition from the swaddle

[Lucban]

Hi guys. My son is 5 months and sleeps in a swaddle he absolutely loves it! He doesn't independently roll which is why he is still in it. I help him roll when we do tummy time.
As much as I love the swaddle I want to try and ditch it but I don't know what the best way to do it, or is there another sleep sack that you can recommend to help with sleep as much as the swaddle does.
I am in two minds whether to wait until he can roll freely or ditch it before he can roll. Help please.
Thanks in advance xx

Ditch it tonight. He will roll any day now and you really don’t want him doing it for the first time overnight and not being able to get back over because of the swaddle. Mine both surprised me by waking up on their tummies one morning and they were younger than yours. His moro reflex should be long gone by now so the transition shouldn’t be too bad. You might have a couple of nights with fussing at bedtime but he will adjust. A normal sleeping bag is fine, he’s too old for any of the transition ones where you can do say 1 arm in and 1 out.

My baby loves his swaddle but we had to ditch it immediately when he started rolling all of a sudden. I was so stressed thinking his sleep would go downhill as he is so used to being swaddled but actually it maybe was slightly worse for about two days then absolutely fine so he adjusted a lot better than I thought he would . We just went to a regular sleep sack

Mine was also very attached to her swaddle. We used the sleeping bags with one arm in initially and it worked OK. The Love to Dream ones do come in suitable sizes but are probably only useful if you are already using Love to Dream swaddles. Even when you use them as normal sleeping bags they are a bit more snug fitting than some.

I was terrified about having to stop using the swaddle but I was amazed by how quickly baby adapted. We went straight to sleep sack.

At that age I would ditch the swaddle immediately @Lucban
You don't want the first time he rolls to be in the night with arms swaddled.

Agree with others, do it immediately. If he was to suddenly roll at night if would be really dangerous. He might not even notice and even if he does, I imagine he'll get used to it quickly and a few nights disruption is worth it for his safety.

We went from swaddle in the first month to swaddle up bag by love to dream and just did a straight switch to a normal sleeping bag around 3/4 months, whenever the Moro reflex stops

Take one arm out at a time. That's what we did, although dd was 4 months. One out for 3 days. Then the other arm.

UPDATE 😁
I ditched the swaddle last night, he wasn't too bad a few moans here and there needed re-settling but other than that he was fine. He can usually put himself back to sleep so he did struggle with that.
Thank you everyone for your advice 🥰❤️

Glad it all went okay!