Full swaddle - what age do we put him in a sleeping bag?

[Holymoly321]

DS is 4.5 months and sleeps in a 'miracle swaddle' - a ready made swaddle. He's in it for daytime naps and night sleep. Just wondering whe we should get him out of it and into a sleeping bag...

my ds was in one from about 3 months and slept really well with it, dd was very small and so didnt go in hers til about 5 months.

I've never seen the swaddle, but if he's happy in it I'd leave him in it until you need to change over.

I put dd into a sleeping bag as soon as she was big enough (in weight terms)- think it was about 6-8 wks. She used to wriggle out of miracle swaddle, and it was the middle of Dec. If your ds is happy w the current state of things, I'd just carry on

my 5 month old still needs swaddling a lot of the time, otherwise he wakes himself up by flapping his hands in his face.
never bothered with sleeping bags though, we just use blankets

I've just graduated DS (12 weeks) from swaddling to grobag. It got to the point where he managed to fight his way out before every feed, so we just decided to cut out the middleman so to speak.

Other than a week with the odd waking-up moment from a flailing hand, it's been fine.

I would reccomend baby sleeping bags though - it's great when I can just pick him up for his night time feed, and then when he falls asleep, or is drowsy put him in his cot again and there's no change of temperature or anything to wake him up. Also he's a right wriggler, so blankets never stay on!

I swaddled DD til 5mo and DS til 7mo- i swaddled DS over his grobag with a light sheet (arms only). I would carry on til your DS can sleep without it.

I also use and have used the miracle swaddle. I remember thinking when DD1 was 5 months that she was going to be swaddled forever! Books suggested most babies grow out of it by 6 months but I didn';t think so. I was wrong! As DD1 neared 6 months, I put her in a sleeping bag, but it was one with poppers over the arms. So, although her arms were contained away from her face, she was free to move aside from this. From there, left 1 arm out then 2. By 6 months she was fully out of swaddle. And it was great because we'd sprinkle dummies around her head and then if she woke in the night she would just grab one and drift off to sleep again (DD2 is 13 weeks and is loving her miracle swaddles)

DS is 4 months and has grown out of his miracle blanket he really loved it, used to grin at us while we were wrapping him up. We tried a grobag but he just kept waking himself up all through the night (had been sleeping through before). We now have a solution in the form of a swaddleaze 3-6 months size. It's a cross between a swaddle blanket and a sleeping bag. However, we have had to resort to an unorthodox way of using it (see "new adventures in swaddling" thread) in order to keep his arms secure. We've gone back to uninterrupted nights now, so I have to conclude that DS just loves to be wrapped up! We don't swaddle for daytime naps (maybe that's why I only ever get 45 minutes out of him at maximum??!)

Hi Gemy,
Could you tell me which brand of sleeping bags you mean? We have EXACTLY the same problem with our son and I'm desperate to get him out of his miracle blanket and into a bag....I loved that swaddling dearly about 6 weeks ago, but now he's just far too big for it!

thanks

beanhead2 ours was from Mothercare and they don't do the exact one. But, this one has poppers in a simular place (though in mine they may have been a little higher - not much though), if you zoom in on the picture you can see where the poppers are:

www.mothercare.com/gp/product/B000M5GLQK/sr=1-9/qid=1207170101/ref=sr_1_9/202-5795977-7167005?ie=UTF 8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44409031&mcb=core

Thanks very much Gemy, will seek one out!
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