how long can I swaddle ds for??

[gio71]

He's 14 weeks old now and I have just tried swapping him from swaddling to a grobag and it's resulted in him waking from just the once when swaddled to waking 3 times in the night again.He's grizzly in the day as a result so am tempted to swop him to being swaddled again for a while but am not sure how long it's advisable to do it for??
Any advice?

I did ds till he was six months and rebelling.

My LO is coming up on 16 wks, tried grobag at 13 wks and she awoke lots. Tried her again last night but also wrapped her arms in tight with her light shawl. Seemed to work. The flailing arms things seems to disturb them.

I swaddled dd1 until around 8 mths. She was always getting out of it by then anyway

my son was swaddled till he was about 10 or 11 months and he was a big chunky lad I had to use a full size cotbed sheet, but he loved it so much and slept so well

My dd is 17months and I still wrap her up , swaddling style, at bedtime. She wakes loads when we've tried her in a gro bag so I have just stuck with the blanket. My ds loved his gro bags.

If I was really sure I wanted to switch I'd just go for it one night and I'm sure she'd get used to it after a few nights.
The thing is she's not a great sleeper anyway so I'm reluctant to change things and make it worse, even if its only temporary.

Do you need to switch to a gro bag?

Its a large thinish one with holes in BTW . Can't remember the name for them.
She wears a fleecy all in one underneath.

Dont really need to swop to grobag I suppose- I just was concerned cos miracle blanket I think says swaddle til 14 weeks and a certain childcare book we don't discuss on mn says only swaddle fully until 6 weeks. Thanks for reassurances though people-swaddling it is from now on

j's still swaddled for naps at 11 months, starts off swaddled for bed time but normally gets out of it.

dd loved being tightly swaddled and wouldn't sleep any other way - a bit problematic in the heat last summer! but at around 6 months, she kept pulling her arms out and so we started to wrap her from under the armpits. then at 7 months i got a grobag and I haven't looked back since. I think you need to follow what ds wants to do and don't worry about what any other 'advice' says...

I was just about to ask literally this question, glo17's last post! For the first time last night, I dropped the swaddle (dd is 14 weeks too) and she just kept waking up and throwing her fists around. But I thought I should stop swaddling because she had fought her way out of it more and more - she still only wakes at 6am-7am with the swaddle, though. In the end, last night, after getting up to her three times, I just reswaddled, but felt like a bit of a child abuser. I'm glad to read there are other later swaddlers, but if my daughter actually doesn't seem to like the swaddle any more, I feel rather torn.