Quick poll: when did you change from swaddling your DC for sleep at night, to using a Grobag?

[DangerMousey]

...and did they take to it well?? DS has been swaddled every night since birth but now at 7 and a half weeks old we are keen to move him into the grobags we have bought. Not least cos at 13lb he is almost too big to be swaddled in a cellular blanket any more.

We are trying it tonight but I am worried he is goin to be awake all night. Startling himself with his jerky hand movements etc etc.

Is there a good age to stop swaddling? Will it take a few nights for him to get used to it?

We stopped swaddling DS at 7mo when he could roll around in his cot. It's a shame as his shawl is his comforter and he does struggle without it. We found he woke himself up quite a bit for almost a week but quickly went back to sleep. He is teething now though and won't sleep without it so I have resorted to grobag and tucking the shawl into the sides of the cot.

16 weeks - I thought it was going to be a nightmare but he somehow just got the hang of it!

DS is 18wks. We tried to move to a grobag a couple of weeks back as I found that he was bursting out of the cellular blankets. He hated every single second of it (admittedly we didn't really do a transition period) as his startle reflex is still quite strong. Since then I've bought extra large muslins which work a treat and are surprisingly warm.

ah bless him, maybe at 7 weeks i ought to let him carry on being swaddled for a while longer then!

Although having said that we put him in a Grobag last night and it didnt seem to affect his night's sleep really: he woke a couple of times (startle reflex probably) in the hour after we put him down, but then after that he slept in his normal pattern and woke up for night bottles at the same time as normal....

Maybe by catching him this young he hasn't realised there's been a change??

Soon as he was the right size for the grobag (8lbs I think?) For both of them, so at a month iirc? But they always broke loose of swaddling, I wasn't good at it. Love grobags, would always prefer them.

About 4 or 5 months old, I think - I remember she turned to sleep on her front on the dot of 6 months old, and had been out of swaddling for a while by then. However I think it had more to do with struggling to find a swaddle that still fit! We still swaddled occasionally for naps though.

3 or 4 weeks. I don't think DD needed swaddling as much as some other babies.

Totally depends on the baby i think. Mine hated swaddling from day one- she always cried and immediately fought their way out of it so I had her in sleeping bags immediately. I don't know if there's a reason to upgrade to bags until your baby is showing signs of having that way? Depends how much your baby likes to be swaddled l guess

My memory is fuzzy these days, but I'm sure I swaddled dd (now 5) til she was about 9 months not realising that you're not meant to for that long . She loved it though, from day one, it really settled her.

We stopped swaddling when she really started breaking free every single time, and stressed that we would be woken throughout the night, but in fact we had the best nights sleep for ages!
Let baby lead the way, if she's breaking free, give it a try, she may well surprise you. If she doesn't seem to like it, you can always swaddle again the following night, maybe even follow my lead & keep going til she's 9 months or so

Our DS liked being swaddled but I read a whole thread on mumsnet about babies used to being swaddled not being able o sleep in grobags, so we moved to grobags at about 6 weeks if I remember rightly - never looked back!

5.5 months and it took a couple of weeks of gradually removing the swaddle - letting one arm free until he was used to it then the next. Only moved him out as he was getting to big for anything except a huge bedsheet to swaddle him in!

I started with nap times and moved through til bedtime. His arms did freak him out a bit at first and took him aaaages to get to sleep but it quickly passed