Hellobee Boards

We are in the process of one arm out and hand towels by his side. He can go 70% of the night with both arms out.

we did one arm out with a swaddle sleep sack when she could find her hands to soothe herself. we started with her hands up by her face, then did one arm, then both arms with the flaps around her tummy and finally loosen it.

I will be honest and say that in our experience (and this was based on the recommendation of Troublesome Tots), it was way easier to get her sleeping in the crib and putting herself to sleep while swaddled. Once we got that down, we switched to the Merlin and then, eventually, the Zipadeezip, but I am wary of changing too many variables all at once.

We used the ZZ (and still do). I like that she can't scratch her face while she sleeps.

@OpinionsLikeKittens: Agreed. The first night we tried the Merlin I ended up taking her out of it around midnight and swaddling her. But then we tried again and went in to use it for a couple months before switching to the Zipadeezip.

We went from the Miracle Blanket to a Zipadee-Zip - and I loved it! My daughter had eczema patches on her cheeks and I got it so she couldn't scratch at it. It turned out to be the beginning of a lovey as she chewed the sleeves to soothe herself. I will likely have to get new ones for the next kid since she really chewed the crap out of those sleeves!

@daniellemybelle: Hi! I've missed you too! We've had a sick little boy for awhile now so that doesn't leave time for too much Hellobee. We did hand towels under his crib sheet along his sides to make him feel cuddled still. It also appears to stop his hands from freaking out as much. We are trying to night wean so at a certain point we try one arm in, both arms in, etc. until he falls back asleep. Typically he goes down at 8 with one arm out. Wakes up at 12 and we take both arms out. Then he'll sleep until 2 or 3, we feed and he goes back down with both out. When he wakes up at 6 on the weekends we go and put an arm back in so we can get an extra hour or two. My friend at work SWEARS that one day the freak out arms just went away and his kid was amazing without a swaddle.