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LO was swaddle weaned before she learned how to self-soothe. And now she's not attached to any object nor is she a hand/thumb sucker. she just learned how to go to sleep. If K is doing well in the swaddle, I would seriously think hard about swaddle weaning now.

one of the reasons we stopped swaddling was to give LO a better chance of self-soothing. his sleep became pretty horrible in the swaddle so we ditched it around 6 weeks. it didn't work like a charm, but i think that's just because LO just doesn't fall asleep that well, and he did learn to suck his thumb (so we don't have to constantly replace the pacifier, which was getting really exhausting).

ds found his hands fairly early but didn't really master self-soothing with thumb sucking or touchin ears until 10/11 wks. I cold turkey swaddle weaned at 12 weeks and he got the hang of self-soothing pretty quickly!

@shopaholic: i was wondering about swaddling weaning bc R loves to be swaddled. She found her hand recently and when that happened, i tried swaddling her hand up by her face. totally works and she's been putting herself to sleep by sucking on her hand! this just happened last week though (15 weeks). i am not going to swaddle wean until she flips back to front or her sleep takes a turn for the worse.