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My 5 1/2 month old will NOT sleep for naps or bedtime without being swaddled. He is getting out of the swaddles and then waking up so we started using a long sleeve shirt along with the blanket. We tie the shirt arms around him after he is swaddled in the blanket to keep him in it longer. He wakes up as soon as he bcomes undone and falls asleep soon after we re-wrap him...I am not sure what to do...do I keep swaddling until he *hopefully* grows out of it or should I just stop and let him screams until he learns how to fall asleep without it? I am so confused about this. I feel like I am going to be swaddling him until kindergarten...Help!?
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Keep swaddling, I say. Try wrapping him in a sheet (baby cot size) :o)
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 | c - July 13 |
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my baby is a swaddle addict as well. she even eat without being swadded. it is totally rediculous. she is beginning to roll over in her sleep now... so i worry about her being swaddled and face down. so i tried to not swaddle her one night and she woke up 15 times. ya, i counted. so what i do now it leave her right arm out. she rolls over on her right side only and can't do it with her arm out. doc. says she has a chicken wing. LOL! anyhoo that is the story... not sure what to do but for right now i'm sticking with what works because i need sleep!
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I swaddled my daughter for 1.5 years (or right about that). It was just what she liked...and there was nothing I could do about it. She outgrew it on her own and now at 7, does not need to be swaddled!! I think either continuing to swaddle is fine, but also letting him cry and learn how to sleep on his own is fine as well. Neither is the right choice, just do what you think is better for yourself. Good Luck...
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At this time it may be hard to realize but believe me he will out grow it. I have a 3 month old and a 9 yr. old and with my second I am now enjoying every minute of everything that I can because like I said there will come a time when they won't need us to swaddle them or anything else, they'll want to do everything on there own because they're "all grown up". So enjoy it even if at times it gets a little frustrating but please don't leave him to cry it out...wouldn't you rather be held. :)
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 | E - July 13 |
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Right now, it's all he knows. My advice is to replace the swaddling with being touched. He will cry but will soon realize that you are trying something new. Once you decide to stop touching him each time he wakes, replace it with sitting in the room next to his crib, when he wakes up crying. Shorten the time that you sit every few days until he no longer needs you. Basically, you are weaning him with replacement behaviors. I would say keep swaddling if he could stay asleep without it. I think you are setting yourself up for worse if he is so reliant on swaddling that he wakes when he feels the airflow. What do you think? I am no expert but I watch Nanny 911 :P
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