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We stopped swaddling as soon as we got home from the hospital. LO didn't like it.. ! Plus we rented a portable bilirubin machine because she had jaundice. Couldn't have her swaddled while she was getting treatment.

We don't swaddle. We stopped around 2 months because he kept getting the swaddle over his head and it scared me. We put him in a sleep sack to sleep now. Our bedtime routine is bath, feed, story time, and feed to top him off. He falls right to sleep after his last feed.

We had the same issue. DD hated her swaddle as soon as she was born... so we put her in the sleep sack, and she slept! But then so many parents told me that *all* babies sleep better swaddled, so I tried the swaddle again (we used the velcro SwaddleMe), and it actually worked! DD would fight it, but she would sleep much better once she was down b/c she wouldn't whack herself in the face.

However, once DD hit 3.5 months she started getting really pissed off about her swaddle again. I tried taking her out of her swaddle one night, and lo and behold she slept wonderfully in her sleepy sack. On night #2 of the sleep sack she slept through the night, and since then she has never woken up to eat in the night ever again.

So I think in the end that we probably never *really* needed the swaddle to begin with. I think it helped a little during the early weeks, but it wasn't truly necessary. You could always give it a try again and see, but maybe your baby is just happier sleeping w/ his arms free.