My DS will be 9 weeks tomorrow. We introduced a swaddle gro bag early on and he got on well with it- giving us stretches of at least 4 hour sleep at night, once even 7 hours! He has always contact napped in the day, or slept in his pram out and about.
A couple of weeks ago we thought this was going so well so we started to transition him out of the swaddle, especially after reading the AAP advice to stop at 8 weeks. We removed one arm and it seemed to be ok for him, whichever arm we chose and he kept up with a 4 and 3 hour stretch overnight.
After a week or so of this we moved him to both arms out so turned into a normal sleeping bag. It started badly- he would do about 2 hours when put down, another stretch of 1-2 hours then 40 mins for the rest of the night. We have persevered in case he got used to it but after a week, it’s got worse if anything and we get 2 hours and then fight for every 40 mins for the rest of the night. I can’t cope any more. I have no idea why he is waking up- but he is often sucking his right fist, even though he doesn’t do this when his left arm is swaddled!
I want to go back to what worked but I’m worried the swaddle isn’t safe! He can roll front to back already but no signs of rolling the other way- he just lifts his knees but can’t rock or move his upper body. Should we carry on or is he really not ready to be unswaddled and we should go back to one arm put and try again in a few weeks.
Experience of this age welcome- 🙏 m an incredibly sleep deprived FTM!