Stopping the swaddling blanket oh no!!!!!!

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Anyone tell me how they have gone from using swaddling blanket to no swaddling blanket??

Using a mothercare one and says safe to use till 14 weeks. Ds coming up 13 weeks and am feeling sleep is going very well but dont want to go backwards.

Many thanks

I think you can carry on swaddling a bit longer, TBH. But we weaned off the swaddle by putting DS in a grobag and then just swaddling only his arms with a thin stretchy blanket - pretty soon he wriggled free and we put it on looser and looser and then lost it altogether - took about 2 weeks.

Growbag, great idea! Will look ds1 old ones out for ds2 and see how that goes. Thanks for reminiding me about them! Especially now the weather colder.

I swaddled until my DD was rolling over - about 4 months I think. I was really dreading giving it up because she always had a really strong startle reflex and would constantly wake herself up, but actually it wasn't too bad. We just put her straight into a grobag thing and although she did wake herself a few times the first few nights, she settled better than I could have hoped!

I swaddled my DS1 until he was 11 months!! He just could not sleep unless he was wrapped up.

I would have kept going, but I was too scared to after she rolled onto her front. Swaddling is the best - if we have another, they'll be in the wrap straight away. We only discovered it at about 3 weeks with this one, and they were the most exhausting 3 weeks of my life!

I swaddled my twins until 6 months, and they loved it, and there was no difference in sleep when we put them in grobags. We did put a rolled up blanket around them though in case they rolled - but you can get special thingies now to keep them in the same position.

Just out of interest what are you all using to swaddle? have 3 day old and no sleep!

We had a woombie and it was great - the only one we wouldn't have to re-do in the middle of the night.

www.thewoombie.com/

i swaddled dd2 til about 4 months, then switched to grobag and didn't really notice any difference

I used this which is available in a larger size to suit older babies.

I'm still swaddling my 22 week old. I have one of the blankets that cupofcoffee linked too. DD is actually still a bit small for the large size so i had to sew on extra velcro. I don't see her growing out of it for ages. I got it in TK Maxx

Bumper when dd was newborn we just used a cellular blanket to swaddle her. There are lots of videos on youtube showing you how.