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The exact same thing happened with my son. The second we swaddle weaned him, he started rolling onto his tummy for naps. And his naps became really short. It lasted like that until he was able to roll back onto his back (maybe a few weeks later?). And then his naps became long again.

@mamajaja: the first few nights, he would wake up from his night sleep in the very beginning (like right after we put him down). It was almost like he couldn't get into deep sleep. We would lay him down, he would roll on his tummy and wake up an hour later. I went in and shushed him back to sleep or picked him up and rocked him. After a few nights, he slept normally. He actually slept BETTER because he loved sleeping on his tummy. I say give it a few nights and see how it goes because your LO might actually really like sleeping on her tummy. She's probably not used to it yet. My DD doesn't like the swaddle so we stopped swaddling her at around 1 month and she sleeps great. She already rolls from back to tummy. She LOVES tummy sleep.

Oh, forgot to mention....we swaddle weaned naps and night at the same time.

I swaddle weaned and sleep trained at the same time. I started at night and continued for naps the next day. After he fell asleep at night and stayed asleep, he slept through the night until next morning. His naps were short 30-40 minute naps for about 4 or 5 days and then gradually lengthened.

We never swaddled for naps, but we went cold turkey on the swaddle for nighttime. We sometimes used the sleep sack and sometimes not. Her sleep wasn't affected very much once we figured out that she liked to start out the night on her tummy.

When she was just over 5 months she was showing signs of being ready to swaddle wean. We went cold turkey into a sleep sack and she became a belly sleeper.

I actually swaddled one arm out for a little while and then completely removed it combined with CIO.. That was at 5 months..

@mamajaja: We didn't sleep train. At 4 months she started with her sleep regression and it was killing me. We spent a lot of time co-bedding and dream feeding her. Basically the second she made a peep I'd pop my boob in her mouth to shut her up (*guilt face*lol). As the month rolled on, I noticed in the morning her swaddle would start to pop open from me pulling her in to nurse all the time and she would flop onto her belly and fall to sleep with her arms out. When we got home from our family vacation I just put her in the sleep sack and to bed on her tummy and she slept like a champ.

Sounds to me like your LO isn't ready to sleep without a swaddle, if it's going to make everyones life and sleep better, I wouldn't try to stop it until their ready.

@mamajaja: The sleep sack was a good transition for us, since we went from the A&A swaddles to an A&A sleep sack- maybe it was all in my head, but it felt like the fabric and a similar 'feeling' of being wrapped without being so constrained. I don't think she could get stuck in a sleep sack since her arms are out.
Prettybaby does gymnastics all over the place in her crib too, moves from end to end, spins all over the place. She's quite the little monkey these days.