https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:04:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swaddling-makes-for-bad-sleep-habits-later-or-so-my-mom-thinks#post-283632 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:16:44 +0000 Goldilocks1107 283632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We swaddled until 3 months (when LO started escaping the swaddle on a regular basis). She's almost 4 months now and at bedtime, we feed her, change her diaper, put her in her crib, zip her into her sleep sack and leave the room. She's asleep in less than 5 minutes.<br /> She doesn't really care for daytime naps, but I think that's more of a "there's too much to look at and do" problem, than anything else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swaddling-makes-for-bad-sleep-habits-later-or-so-my-mom-thinks#post-283630 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:15:08 +0000 SugarplumsMom 283630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think a lot of the older generation get frustrated when they see the newer generation do things differently than they're used to. They can't make sense of it and like to come up with all sorts of things without any basis. I've experienced this a few times. I try to ignore it and blame it on menopause. Lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swaddling-makes-for-bad-sleep-habits-later-or-so-my-mom-thinks#post-283626 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:03:41 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 283626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, that's crap. We swaddled until almost 6 months and LO is a great sleeper at 14 months. Barring nights he's been OT, he has never had issues going to sleep on his own in the crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swaddling-makes-for-bad-sleep-habits-later-or-so-my-mom-thinks#post-283622 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:59:38 +0000 Andrea 283622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, never heard of that. We swaddled until 4 months and DD started going to sleep by herself in the crib (drowsy but awake) around the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/swaddling-makes-for-bad-sleep-habits-later-or-so-my-mom-thinks#post-283616 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:55:10 +0000 T.H.O.U. 283616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents were never a big fan of the long term swaddle. She understood when she was an itty bitty newborn but by about 2 months she thought she should be out of it and definitely by 4-5 months when we stopped using it. </p> <p>Now she says that she thinks part of our sleep problems now (not going to sleep on her own in the crib) stem from being swaddled. I don't think there is any scientific backing to this thought, just her thinking. Any thoughts? </p>