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swaddling and phasing it out

Monica - posted on 01/01/2010 ( 3 moms have responded )

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we have been using the miracle blanket since my daughter was 3 weeks old. it works with keeping her hands/arms secure so she doesn't wake herself up. she is now rolling over and scooting like it's her job. she absolutely HATES the swaddle. she has been sleeping in her co-sleeper bassinet attached to our bed. she's outgrowing that. i plan to continue breastfeeding until at least she's one year old or more. she's six months now. what is a reasonable expectation for new sleep pattern?. we are going to have to move her crib into our room or use the pack n play to continue with the co-sleeping. i am not into waking up in the middle of the night to nurse her. i knew the day would come where she would be too active for the swaddle and the co-sleeper. call me lazy for not wanting to wake up and walk to the other side of the house to nurse her at night but it is what it is. i would like some helpful suggestions for anyone out there that swaddled. what did you do to help your baby sleep and stay asleep without the swaddle when they are soooo active? literally my daughter will fall asleep and then roll onto her belly, wake herself up, scream and get pissed off. i need my sleep as much as she does. thanks for any suggestions and sorry this is so long.

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Monica - posted on 01/02/2010

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thanks for the helpful suggestions. My daughter is teething, I think, and really cranky. She hates her swaddle but it's the only thing that gets her to calm down to sleep. I'm dreading the day she will no longer use the swaddle. She's kind of pain with her sleeping right now. I let her lay in bed with me after her 4am feeding and she spends most of her time kicking me in her sleep. i haven't slept well in days. I hope she just cuts her tooth so we can do back to the blissful and reliable nights of sleeping with a peaceful nursing session once or twice a night. i'm a new mom and don't know much about this stage of development other than what is in books but i'm too tired or busy to read most of the time. go figure! thanks again for your help.

Nikki - posted on 01/02/2010

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My son was swaddled until around 6 months and then he started wanting his arms out, so as we did with my daughter, we wrapped him with his arms out so he still had the comfort of feeling something around him and he could also wiggle his arms around, then he phased it out himself! He started being a pain with sleep at about 9 months and i could not put him down so after a week of having him sleep on me, which wouldn't have been a problem if i didn't have a 3 year old to chase, I decided to try swaddling again and he went down no problems and slept longer, he will be 1 on the 12 of Jan and is still swaddled for his day sleeps!

Noelle - posted on 01/01/2010

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I had to go cold turkey with the swaddling with my son. One night I just could not get him wrapped so I said fine no more and haven't wrapped him since. He was fine with it. When I stopped swaddling I started using the techniques in the book "Tears and Tamtrums" by Aletha Solter and now I'm able to put him in his crib with his aqaurium toy turned on and a stuffed animal in his arm. He watched his fishies until he goes to sleep. Then, he started discovering that he could roll over and scoot around. When he finally mastered rolling he slept a bit better because he wasn't really doing it that much in his sleep. Then a couple of weeks ago he started sleeping on his tummy then he would wake up and get freaked out because it was like he forgot how to roll back over so I would have to get up and roll him over on his back and help him back to sleep. Now that he has completely mastered that he doesn't wake up freaked out. He just rolls over on his own. There really isn't anything you can do but be patient. My son is all over the place in his crib but he sleeps fine now other than still waking once or twice in the night to eat. Good luck! :)

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