Transitioning out of swaddle help please!

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We’ve tried my 3mo (12wks this week) DS in a baby sleeping bag for the past week with not much success, he is waking up every 1-2 hrs in the night (after sleeping 3-4 hrs with a swaddle sometimes 5hrs) frequently hitting himself in the face and waking up. Before this we tried the one arm out/ two arm out of swaddle for a few nights to help transition. I’ve found lots of different advice online as to when you should stop swaddling, DS is not yet showing signs of rolling but is bursting out of his Velcro swaddle wraps. We have also tried the arms up zip swaddle bags but have not found these as good for DS. Do we persevere without the swaddle or do we just buy a bigger size and continue for abit longer? (And all get abit more sleep! 🤪) What did you do? Help for FTM!

I would keep the swaddle to help you through the 4 month sleep regression. It's unusual for babies to be regularly rolling before 4 months and this is the trigger to stop using them. So no rush.

I’d also stick with the swaddle. My DD was swaddled until 6 months (late roller) and it was a lot easier at that age to transition her to a sleeping bag as her startle reflex had gone.

Can you get some GroSnug sleeping bags? We had some where the arm holes have poppers so you can close them up and use them as a swaddle then take one or two arms out when you’re ready. Worked well for us and then our baby was already familiar with the sleeping bag when time came to transition