safe-t sleep and swaddling

Ok, We are swaddling Tom but I am thinking about using the safety sleep on him soon. Do we continue to swaddle him or do we have to stop that?

we free sleep...aka no safety sleep....never saw need for it...we tuck her in firmly and when she moves monitor is there as a back up...she rolls, moves and hates being confined.....but Tom may be different

Bombshell wrote: we free sleep...aka no safety sleep....never saw need for it...we tuck her in firmly and when she moves monitor is there as a back up...she rolls, moves and hates being confined.....but Tom may be different

*quietly chuckles* wait until she finds out that she's really clever and can pull herself up to standing at her cot.. then doesn't want to sleep anymore! lol.. that's when we started using the safety sleep - around 7 months

I hate using my safety sleep, Daniel gets cranky at the lack of movement he can do in it and then undoing the velcro scares him so I doubt I'll ever use it again!

I swaddle and use safety sleep, although I don't use it before his dream feed as opening the velcro wakes him up. I find that even swaddled and in his safety sleep he still manages to get his arms out sometimes. And i put three safety pins into his swaddling sheet.

If you are thinking of sleeping him on his side you could try a sleep wedge. They are about $20 from baby factory. We have 2 for Daniel because we sleep him on his side because of his reflux, he won't sleep for more than an hour on his back (no matter what time of day). It makes him feel more snuggly having a sleep wedge too

Sam went through a stage of being swaddled but then got really grouchy if you even tried so we ended up just tucking her in nice and tight. The last couple of weeks she has been kicking the blankets off (darn elastic legs!) to get to the toe sucking so I have put her in a sleeping bag which I just love! She can't kick it off and with the nights getting hotter I can just put her in with a nappy and singlet and know she is warm enough

LOL i still have the baby that sleeps 11 - 12 hours no wake up...so long may that last = and hey if it doesnt then thats ok cause we have done pretty well thus far....

I have only just swaddled, i saw no use for a safety sleep and so expensive! #1 was swaddled until 6mths, #2 until 12mths and #3 until 10mths, i ended up using cot sheets to wrap them. Hasnt done them any harm and they still all sleep from 7pm-6am every night.