swaddling - how long can you carry on with it? ds2 obviously a future IronMan - wriggles free during night

[Tutter]

and he's only 10 weeks old (but a hefty 15.5lbs)

i swaddle pretty blardy firmly so what am i doing wrong...?

Dd was swaddled till she was over 1. She was quite a still sleeper though. Maybe switch to a grobag if he's a wriggler.

Get a babygro. Invaluable during winter and he'll never be able to fight his way out.

Mine never paid much attention to mine or dh's attempts at swaddling, you'd need gaffa tape I think.

what's a babygro? i thought it was just another word for a sleepsuit?

We used the kiddopotamus swaddle. When DS started to manage to escape that we double swaddled him in 2 of them!! Luckily it was winter. We eventually set him free (well put him in a grobag with his arms tucked inside it) when he was nearly 7 months old).

babygro is another word for sleepsuit.
Grobag is like a sleeping bag with arm holes in it.

A babygro is a sleepsuit. You can get fluffy ones though.

What are you swaddling in Tutter? Don't use a stretchy blanket as much easier to get out of. Dd was enormously squirmy, but I continued attempts at swaddling until about 5 or 6 months.

When ds was a newborn he always managed to wriggle free, but then I realised the blanket I was using wasn't up to the job.

I have found that a knitted blanket works best as it has more stretch in it, and that fleece blankets were useless.

Hope this helps!

I had same problem. I would just go for a grobag now - we did and after a couple of painful nights he loved it. He obviously wriggles so much there is no point in going for sheets and blankets just yet.

miracle blanket - can pick them up from mothercare. i defy any bub to escape from them