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My baby boy is 11 days old. He doesn't sleep well in his bed next to mine. He seems to want to be held when he is sleeping. Swaddling was suggested. I swaddle him nice and snug but he still kicks out of it and then throws a fit. It seems the only way I get any sleep is if I hold him in my arms, then if I try and lay him down he wakes up. Any one else's baby not swaddle well? How can I get my baby to sleep by himself?
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What method do you use when swaddling him...A really tight swaddle in which his arms are by his side will hold an 11 day old baby, and he will like it...Do not be afraid of swaddling too tight...that is pretty much impossible. Do you have a sleep positioner? This helps hold the swaddle at night...My daughter is 5 1/2 weeks old and still has a pretty strong startle reflex and the only way she'll sleep through the night is if she is tightly swaddled so that her startle reflex won't cause her arms to fly and wake her up.
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You can also use the sleeves of a long sleeve shirt as extra support at keeping the swaddle tight for longer. I use this method with my 4.5 month old. he won't sleep longer than an hour unswaddled! :)
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I only swaddle my daughter (wow stilll feels weird saying that!) at night. She sleeps for ages. During the day she only sleeps about two hours at a time, but it still gives me time to do stuff
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sometimes i will use two blankets. one to swaddle her super tight and one to re-swaddle her. she never escapes this one. she is 3.5 mos old and still loves to be swaddled. even though she doesn't have the morro reflex any longer she still sleeps better when swaddled. it is part of our bedtime routine - when she is swaddled, and i shut the blinds and turn her music on she knows it is bettime and now falls asleep on her own. ooohhh i love her!
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You know what, since the day Cayleigh was born I have not been able to swaddle her (5 mos now), she was even in the special care nursury for 3 weeks (b/c she was6 wks premature) and the nurses didnt even swaddle her because she does not like it at all....
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Hey everybody, my baby isn't born yet, but I have a question. I know babies feel more secure when swaddled, but is it possible to swaddle too tight? Seems like if they couldn't move at all they wouldn't be very comfortable?
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Think of this way, by the time your baby is ready to be born the womb is a pretty tight squeeze. Swaddling kinda mimics this, which is why most babies love it. I guess you could be clostrophobic from birth like CherishCayleigh, but as you can see from the other posts it does work for some.
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My daughter has liked to be swaddled at bed time right from day one shes 3 months now and lately shes been kicking out of her swaddle balanket too I got a blanket from Walmart that is has a pocket that you put them in then it wraps on both sides one side has vecro it worked great for the longest time but now she just moving so much she gets out of it so I guess maybe she ready to just be tucked in with a normal blanket.If you don't already have a swaddle blanket like the one i have try getting one it was about 15.00 canadian.I see now they have a bunting blanket that you zip them in and just their arms stick out i might try that now that shes bigger. Good luck Jenn
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I try and swaddle my 15 day old son but he always escapes too. I wake in the middle of the night and he has somehow gotten all the blankets out from under and around him. He's a big boy but still...
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Hi,I had my baby boy on June 24th...He hates being swaddled,I even purchased these swaddlers with velcro they are suppose to prevent SIDS as well. But he wont have it.It makes him mad so I gave up on swaddling him. Good luck.
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Amongst a heap of hand me downs from my sister-in-law there is this little baby sleeping bag. It's brilliant, it keeps her nice n' snug if we don't have a blanket with us. As she can't be swaddled in the car seat, if she's asleep when we get home we just slip her into the bag and zip it up and slide her straight into her ba__sinet.
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I used a commercial swaddle with velcro to swaddle my baby, and she liked it. I had watched a video by Dr. Harvey Karp, and it showed that babies often struggle when being swaddled tightly, but that it helps them relax after you pick them up. I found that to be true. As far as getting the baby to lay down; my husband and I put a hot water bottle in the baby's bed and took it out right before GENTLY laying her in it. That saved our bacon; she woke up every time before we tried that.
Every baby's different; my sister in law swears by the family bed and says that she gets more sleep sleeping with her babies than she would otherwise. The water bottle and the swaddleme are a couple of things to pull from your bag of tricks. Hope they help!
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I agree. When I swaddle my baby she knows that it is bedtime...she doesn't even fight the swaddle anymore...she smiles as I'm doing it..
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My girl was swaddled when she was in the nicu (6 weeks early) But when I brought her home they told em nto to swaddle her and not to put any blankets on her! I couldnt undestand how they thought my Kaylee would sleep after spending two weeks being swaddled with tons of blankets and quilts on top of her and now being forced to just sleep with nothing but a nightie. I ended up not taking their advice and tucking a blankie around her but only a lil over her belly b___ton so there was no chance of it getting on ehr face and building up carbon dioxide or suffocating her. Unfortuantly she only sleeps in ehr ba__sinet sometimes. The other times she's in bed with us. At the moment she is sleeping in her swing after a half hour of being a cranky lil girl
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