sorry -- am sure i've asked this before, but at what age did you stop swaddling?

[Tutter]

ds2 is 3.5mo

am finding swaddling a pita - inevitably i have to reswaddle him at some point in the night as he's managed to free his arms and is getting crotchety

and have to unswaddle and reswaddle before/after night feeds

but it's always worked in terms of getting him to sleep fairly quickly

and when he's swaddled in the daytime he sleeps longer than otherwise would be the case (1.5hrs rather than catnapping)

have just settled him in a sleeping bag but have doubts about how long he'll stay asleep (have tried a couple of times before but given up fairly quickly)

when i put them in the sleeping bag thing about twoish months

one month according to www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/sleep/swaddlingexpert/

oh dear

think we're in for a tough night

he keeps waking himself - fingers magnetically drawn to his face, pulling out dummy and bothering himself

don't quite understand the development issue on the link there - if they're swaddled only when asleep, how can that impair development/mobility?

Tutter - I think that developmental thing harks back to ye olden days when it was usual to swaddle day and night. I swaddled DD until 6months, and to my extremely uneducated eye she looks fairly "normal" developmentally.

well he's swaddled again

he's wokjen screaming several times and i'm just too damned tired to deal with it right now

I half swaddled (ie just under the arms) from 8 weeks - dd obviously wanted her arms free, but would kick herself awake if she wasn't swaddled at all. I then put her in a sleeping bag at 11 weeks and tucked it into the cot. It seems to be OK so far. DO try the half swaddle thing as it really helped us and dd could suck her fingers in the middle of the night if she wanted.