https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:10:51 +0000 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:34:42 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.10 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=33952 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1062729&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1062729 Author: anon
Subject: 33952
Posted: 14 June 2010 at 12:34pm

I have heard (but never read) of research that says that it's better for a babies development to have their hands free to go up to their mouth. But as I haven't seen this, I don't really go along with it too much.

I personally believe that you should swaddle a baby as long as it helps them to sleep. Then begin to wean them by doing one arm out as you have done. So don't worry about what you should/shouldn't do - every baby is different. Do what works for your baby!!]]> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:34:42 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1062729&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1062729 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1061553&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1061553 Author: pekemoemum
Subject: 33952
Posted: 13 June 2010 at 9:38am

we swaddled till Tyde was about 6/7months old in a miracle blanket.. LOVED IT.. but when he started escaping lots and woke with it up around his head that freaked me out. We put him in the Peke Moe then, and it was great to stop him scratching as his face too! :)]]> Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:38:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1061553&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1061553 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059566&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059566 Author: Helen1
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 8:52pm

We swaddled Amelia until she was nearly 11 months old. She just slept better that way.

When we stopped I went with one arm out for a week and then with both arms out. I was also using a safety sleep so she felt secure.

Don't feel that you need to stop because your baby has got to xxx age. I know of people who swaddled their babies longer than we did.]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:52:34 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059566&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059566 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059562&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059562 Author: High9
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 8:50pm

Oh it's awful, Lily rubs her eyes red raw almost! And scratches her cheeks/eyes/face. PN asked me what'd she'd been doing! ]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:50:50 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059562&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059562 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059467&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059467 Author: mummymonster
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 7:51pm

DS was one of those babies who would rub his face & pull his ears when tired (still is). Not just little rubs, but face/ear scratching drawing blood rubbing. He still has little grazes in his ears most of the time. (to spite keeping his nails short) He wouldn't sleep unswaddled because he was too busy scratching up his face.

We had him fully swaddled till 7+ months. By this time I had to make bigger wraps to contain him. From about 4 months we tried arms out / dropping the swaddle multiple times and it was just all bad.

Then somewhere around 8mths when he was getting out of my super sized wraps we went through moving him to a sleeping bag (he hated it), then blankets (he wouldn't stay under them), then to polar fleece all-in-ones (wearing the blanket). I think we started with swaddled at night, unswaddled during the day.

Now he's older and it's colder we've tried the bag again and now he's happy with it.

All babies are different and stop the swaddling when it works for you and your boy. ]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:51:08 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059467&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059467 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059411&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059411 Author: tiptoes
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 7:02pm

I still swaddle here too using a miracle wrap or another one that is similar. But I don't bother with the extra flaps in the inside of the miracle wrap. I often find him with his arms out but like nat says it signals nap time for us.]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:02:12 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1059411&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1059411 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058697&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058697 Author: High9
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 9:18am

I wrap dd in a miracle blanket, just the arms, I leave her legs out and she gets put in a sleepbag swaddled over the top. ]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:18:29 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058697&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058697 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058695&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058695 Author: millymollymandy
Subject: 33952
Posted: 10 June 2010 at 9:15am

You could try a miracle blanket, which seems to have pockets for arms and can be wrapped the sleeping bag.

We swaddled till about 8 months, when it became impossible and DD decided tummy sleeping was better.]]> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:15:22 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058695&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058695 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058534&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058534 Author: Febgirl
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 10:00pm

Still swaddling here, little Miss gets far too excited if her arms are free and starts flapping them around and chattering away!

We use a grobag and go go bag too and I just swaddle her arms over the top of the bag, works really well. I'd swaddle over the top of your sleeping bag for a while longer, anything to help them sleep better, plenty of time to wean them off it. ]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:00:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058534&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058534 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058388&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058388 Author: WestiesGirl
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 8:28pm

Still wrapping here and Jackson is almost 10 months old. At home he has arms out and we've done that since summer but at DC he has arms wrapped up (sleeps better).

With the arms, we started with one arm first then both about a week or so later. I would wrap Jackson with one arm out and put him in the Grobag no problems

ETA to make sense!

Edited by WestiesGirl]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:28:08 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058388&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058388 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058017&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058017 Author: nuts_nats
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 3:45pm

I still swaddle DD who is nearly 6 months. She just wouldn't sleep otherwise! Wrapping means sleeptime and she knows that, even when we are out and about. If she manages to escape out of her wrap at night (we use a large dreamswaddle) she is guaranteed to wake up. I will probably try her without once she is on the move but even then as long as its working why fight it!]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:45:13 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1058017&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1058017 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057970&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057970 Author: Shezamumof3
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 3:00pm

I swaddled Isabella up until she was 7.5 months old, then after that she just escaped all the time so I gave up. Caden was swaddled until 3 months, after that he slept better un swaddled. Isabella slept a millions times better swaddled.]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057970&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057970 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057933&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057933 Author: High9
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 2:32pm

I do exactly what PP does. Lily kicks her blankets off. Although if I have a quilt on top she doesn't! ]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:32:43 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057933&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057933 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057918&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057918 Author: High9
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 2:20pm

I have tried and tried not swaddling Lily(3.5 months) but with same problem as you!

Don't panic, there was a thread on here earlier and people were still swaddling at 8months etc.

I plan to swaddle Lily until she crawls. She still doesn't know her hands iygwim so will only sleep if swaddled! ]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:20:34 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057918&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057918 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057894&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057894 Author: LILLIS
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 2:02pm

Im not an expert on this but I still swaddle our girl and she is 5 months old - if we dont she doesnt sleep.
I have a sleeping bag and I wrap over the top of it as she also kicks her blankets off.

I have just bought a merino wrap off TM but have yet to try it.

I have switched from a miracle blanket to a wrap me up and that has been successful so far.

I say just go with it - if he isnt ready to not be wrapped yet then wrap him - saves your sanity as well.
And if you want to use the sleeping wrap over the top, gives a resolution to both problems - just adjust clothing for the extra layers if need be. ]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:02:41 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057894&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057894 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057829&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057829 Author: 1st_Time_Preggies
Subject: 33952
Posted: 09 June 2010 at 1:11pm

My son is four months old and I have been putting him in his merino sleeping bag the last few weeks as he has been kicking his blankets off. It is GREAT but of course he is no longer swaddled and I was too scared to try leaving his arms out. So I have been "strapping" them down with his safety sleep recently.

The last few afternoon naps (his shortest of the day) I have tried leaving one arm out but he just cries for 15 minutes instead of sleeping, whereas if his arms are strapped down he goes to sleep within a few minutes.

How long did you swaddle your baby for? I wonder up to what point I should continue because surely at some stage he is going to have to learn to sleep with his arms out! I have just purchased a "woombie" as that at least seems to allow him some movement but he can't get his hands into his mouth or so loose that they distract him from sleeping :-)

I would love to hear anyone's experiences!]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:11:00 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33952&PID=1057829&title=to-swaddle-or-not-to-swaddle#1057829