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We went from the Merlin's Magic Sleepsuit to the halo sleep sack with the swaddle arms around her chest, not her arms. She woke up every 40 minutes or so for the first 3 hours, I want to say. It's a little bit of a blur, but I think we went in and rocked her or nursed her back to sleep each time, since we weren't doing CIO at the time. But this was when her sleep was just so bad that the waking up every 40 minutes wasn't even so far from the norm anyway. Once she got used to it, her sleep did improve-- she loves sucking on her fingers and having her arms out made it possible.

If she is doing ok with naps, I bet she will be better than you expect for bedtime.

she self-swaddle weaned and I was not ready! it was awful. she slept terribly for a loooong..loooooong...long time. obviously at some point it switched from her arms waking her, to other things, but yeah.

I just nursed her back to sleep. we never sleep trained, and she gradually dropped wakeups until she started STTN at 11.5 months on her own (630-6)

For Kaia she really decided when it was time to swaddle wean. She kept breaking her left arm (only ever her left... we might have a lefty here!) out of the swaddle to suck on her hand (now her thumb. Ugh... I was trying to avoid a thumb sucker. Oh well.) So we unswaddled one arm for her to sleep at night for a couple nights then tried both arms. She now STTN!!! (If only my boobs would do the same...)

Maybe try one arm then both and see how it goes? Once we let her have her hands she slept through the night because she was able to pacify herself back to sleep. So, for her it was less about the feeling of the swaddle and more about access to her hands to suck on. Infact, the second we gave her her hands she started STTN and I wish we had tried it sooner!

My dd didn't really have any issue with extra wake ups. I did a one armed swaddle for like 3 weeks, then a no-armed swaddle, then just moved her to the wearable blankets. I always nursed back to sleep but often she's go back to sleep sucking her thumb (which is why I tried the one armed swaddle in the first place) good luck!

How long can they wear a Zipadeezip? Can I start K on one now if I can get 2 hr naps?!

The first 2 nights of swaddle weaning were ROUGH! I think she woke up at least every hour the first night. I blew up the aerobed for the 2nd night. By the 3rd night, I think she woke up about 5 times? It was totally fine near a week.

@lawbee11: How did she do? Hope you didn't have too rough of a night!

@lawbee11: yay! Good to hear; hopefully she gets used to it and is even better tonight