Swaddle me this...
Zoe has lost quite a bit of hair in the front and looks like a balding man in this pic, her head circumference, weight and length are all huge. She is in the higher percentile for her measurements so maybe she will be tall like her father. Note the dummy off to the side: YUS!
Ever since Zoe was born I have swaddled her up for naps and night sleeps, so now she knows that if she is tight and warm this must mean sleep. Some people can't understand why I would need to swaddle her and I think maybe back in the day when they used to put babies down on their tummies - they weren't swaddled? I mean how do you roll out of a sticky spot with your arms pinned to your sides. At least when on their backs there is nowhere to go - not until she starts wriggling etc anyway.
I have her in a snuggle wrap from Pumpkin Patch but she is seriously busting out of it and they don't make any other sizes. Just small. How helpful! As you can see in the pic, she is now able to squirm her arms up through and to her mouth. If I put her down without swaddling her arms go crazy, wake her up and thus 10min naps only. So I have purchased a bigger tougher swaddle thingee from The Sleep Store, so hopefully that will be better.
I want to wean her out of swaddling eventually, but have heard you can swaddle up to about 1 year? I know there are grow bags, sleeping sacks etc that I can transition her with but not yet. Anyone got any tips on weaning their kid out of swaddling? I wouldn't mind starting at least with day naps unswaddled but swaddle for the night time sleeps to keep them long and solid.
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Such a sweetie!!
Hey Sarah just reading about swaddle. My sister-in-law makes swaddles. Check hers out at www.mum2mum.co.nz Cheers Sonja
With my munchkin I stopped wrapping during the day at about 4 months. I started by leaving one arm free but would wrap it up again if she took too long fall asleep. Once she was going to sleep OK with one arm out, I let the other one out.
Oh and when you get her arms out, show her how to put the dummy back in when she's in bed :) If my monkey woke up I would put the dummy in her hand and guide it into her mouth, she clicked on pretty quick and before we knew it we didn't have to go in and put her dummy in.
That is a very cute picture too by the way, what a sweetie.
Such an adorable photo! I swaddled both mine, but don't remember having to stop doing it - they just forced their way out and took action by themselves - definitely by about 4 months. Ah, you have such an adorable girl. Happy sleeps :)
My experience was like Sarah's. My baby girl started to unswaddle herself. She would at first just get one arm out then eventually she did not like to be swaddled and confined to no movement.Such a sweet pic.