F is 11 weeks old, and he has really started to discover his hands the past week. He seems like he is starting to really fight his swaddle unless he's super tired, but I am about 0% confident that he can sleep through the night without it. So basically I feel bad while he gets super angry when I swaddle him until he calms down enough to fall asleep. Should I just keep swaddling or what would you do next in line? I'm not sure about swaddling with arms out! He seems to still have a semi-strong startle reflex.
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Swaddle arms out.
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We used the Halo sleepsack with swaddle at that stage and swaddled his body with arms out
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Sleepsack!
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I did swaddle 1 arm out for a week, then both arms out. It was a seamless transition
I swaddled L until she was rolling over in her swaddle (I forget how old, but pretty old!), and meanwhile K is refusing a swaddle of any kind - so foreign to me -
After hating it at first (so much so that I actually started a thread about it) we now are having great luck with the Baby Merlin Magic Sleepsuit. He has a fairly strong reflex, so sleep sacks and arms out weren't working. The suit seems to muffle his startle enough, but he can still get his hands in his mouth for comfort.
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We've been doing the swaddle with arms out (halo sleep sack) for a few weeks...it's getting better! She only wakes up once
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With DS1, we swaddled with arms out from the beginning. By that age, he wiggles out of that and we moved on to sleep sacks.
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We used a sleep sack from 8 weeks onwards.
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I'd try just a sleepsack and see what happens. I really feared the swaddle transition, but had to do it at 12 weeks when DD started trying to roll. i expected it to be horrific but she was totally fine. I did a baby dee dee sleep sack (since they're heavier) for a few weeks but then stopped when she successfully rolled. She's been a tummy sleeper ever since. It might not be as bad as you think!
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Thanks for the suggestions! I guess it's time to get on Amazon and start shopping lol
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Zipadee zip is what we used to transition from the swaddle! They weren't quite ready for a sleep sack with their hands for, so the z was the perfect in between
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