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I swaddled because my LO loved it but my niece and nephew did not like to be swaddled so they didn't do it.

If your LO doesnt require it then there isnt a need. Liv could NOT sleep without it, though she did go through a phase of about 3 weeks where she wanted nothing to do with it before we got her back on

I've noticed that Europeans don't swaddle as much as Americans. In fact, I even asked at the hospital and the nurses looked at me like I was a crazy person. I finally broke out the swaddle in the middle of the night after DS couldn't sleep AT ALL because of the moro reflex, so I just tried it and it was magic.

My husband thought it was a straightjacket and hated the idea of it, but since it helped us all sleep, he got on board.

I'm also on the fence... I will try it and see how my baby responds to it once she arrives.

I think I did when I first brought DS home, but not for long... maybe a week? Not sure if it made a difference but DS was sleep trained pretty early, & really I never had issues with him sleeping or waking himself up.

I don't plan to really swaddle with this one either.

6 years of working in NICU has convinced me of the magic of the swaddle. In 6 years I have never met a baby that didn't sleep better swaddled. My LO will definitely be swaddled for the first couple months, we probably will wean the swaddle at around 3 months (if LO is ready!)

My son hated it. We tried it when he was first born... Then we did swaddle for a period of weeks 6-15 or so. He always fought to get his arms free, and always fought sleep by jackknifing his legs up and down. After we found the rock and play at week 15 we stopped swaddling him because we needed to strap him in to the RNP and swaddling wasn't working anyway.

I wasn't planning on it and we didn't at first. But then he was awake every half hour to hour because he'd flail his arms and hit his face so he'd wake up. They have what is called moro reflex where their nervous systems are still very immature and developing. Not only does swaddling help keep them asleep, but it gives them comfort by creating a tight, confined space, like the womb.
So for us, it became a necessity.

My LO loved being swaddled, when she started sucking her thumb at about 3m we just swaddled her her preferred sucking thumb outside the swaddle. Stopped swaddling completely at about 5m.