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Please help me with transitioning baby

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Hanflower311 · 15/01/2022 20:40

My baby is 15 weeks old and still sleeps swaddled. We used a love 2 dream when she was very little, moved onto Velcro swaddles at about 6 weeks and her sleep drastically improved. Now I am conscious she is close to rolling and she can break out of the swaddle / bring her hands right up to her face and wakes herself up.

I have bought a love 2 dream transition swaddle and we have used it for daytime naps with no problems (she only naps for 30-40 mins generally anyway) but the one time I have tried it at night she had 3 hours of broken sleep and then got so angry and overtired that I gave in and swaddled her Sad

She uses a dummy and will either knock that out or just bring her hands straight to her face. Either way she wakes herself up repeatedly. The love 2 dream allows her to do this as well (to a lesser extent) and she wakes up.

I am desperate to get her transitioned into arms out sleep but I just don't know the best way to do it, without jeopardising her generally very very good night sleeping. I also have PND and am very affected by sleep deprivation so I am very anxious. Does anybody have any tips that would help me please? Sad

Thank you xx

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Vicky1989x · 15/01/2022 21:24

I used a magic merlin sleepsuit when transitioning my DD out of a swaddle. I didn’t do this until 5.5 months though (late roller) but it worked wonders for her. It’s quite thick though so kept the room cooler than normal.

www.magicsleepsuit.com/collections/frontpage/products/pink-cotton-magic-sleepsuit?variant=988628808

JustAnotherUserinParadise · 17/01/2022 10:34

we did one arm out one in as a transition for a few days.
One arm was always more flail-y than the other so I kept that one swaddled!

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