https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:11:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moving-wake-time-earlier-and-nap-swaddle-weaning-cold-turkey#post-2825754 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:23:22 +0000 SweetiePie 2825754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi! So glad the early bedtime is still working :-)<br /> I think you can slowly wake earlier and earlier (like 15 mins every couple of days) and if you find that he’s really cranky you could try to adjust bedtime even a little earlier. Which may sound crazy but if he’s doing well with the amount of sleep he’s currently getting overnight I would want to keep that the same. </p> <p>As for the sleep sack, he may really surprise you! We did swaddle exclusively until maybe 8 weeks. Then we started the Merlin for naps only. For maybe 2 weeks? Then we started using Merlin overnight until last week (15 weeks) I went ahead and just did a sleep sack and he did great! He’s been exclusively in a sleep sack ever since with little to no sleep disruption.<br /> So you could go the same route we just took above and plan the sleep sack part to happen a week or so before his daycare start. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moving-wake-time-earlier-and-nap-swaddle-weaning-cold-turkey#post-2825728 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:27:11 +0000 jennlin821 2825728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would transition slowly, so that his natural sleep rhythm adjusts too. I personally don't like to wake up an hour before I want to, so don't force it on him!</p> <p>Also, we sent my DD with the halo sleep sack, but still swaddled at home. (at home we used the halo sleep sack that had the swaddle wrap around the arms,) it worked well for us until we fully transitioned out of the swaddle. I wouldn't worry too much about having different routines at home and at daycare. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moving-wake-time-earlier-and-nap-swaddle-weaning-cold-turkey#post-2825701 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:02:53 +0000 HappyBaker 2825701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 7.5 weeks old and (knock on ALL the wood) a generally good sleeper so far. We swaddle him for all naps and bedtime, and for the past couple of weeks I've been waking him at 7am if he is not awake yet so that our days fall into a more consistent pattern. </p> <p>I go back to work when he is 11 weeks old, and I'll have to wake him at 6am in order to get him ready and to daycare on time. I also just found out they no longer allow swaddles or Magic Merlin sleep suits at daycare, babies can sleep in a regular sleep sack only.</p> <p>I'm thinking I should try to start transitioning him to napping without a swaddle, and waking up earlier...but not sure if I just do both cold turkey or if I should do it slowly? Like wake him up 10 minutes earlier and keep moving it back, or swaddling one arm for a few days, etc. My other 2 kids I pretty much just let daycare deal with the crap naps, but our first month or two of daycare were complete messes because of the lack of sleep while they adjusted. </p>