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If your LO is not rolling in her sleep and endangering herself, i dont see why you have to stop swaddlng. We swaddle weaned at 6 months because C was rolling onto her face at night. Yes, it involved CIO.

If youre going to do both, then Id do it at the same time.

We just did both at the same time. I felt like I couldn't sleep train her while swaddled because then she couldn't self soothe. We used to have to bounce her to sleep every night. We did CIO. The first night she cried 20 min, the second night 10. Now she may fuss a bit or roll around a while but she falls asleep on her own. We also did naps and night time sleep at the same time.

We stopped rocking probably when he was about 3 months old...we tried to replace the rocking with reading a story instead so we still had quiet time in the glider. He did cry the first few nights. We would do a version of CIO...we would wait 10 minutes, go in and give him a pacifier, rub his head gently and then wait another 10 minutes. I think he only got up to 30 minutes once so luckily we didn't have to deal with a whole night of crying. Now he will fuss for about 5 minutes before falling asleep on his own and will put himself back to sleep during the night if he wakes suddenly. He is 4.5 months old now.

For swaddling, we just weaned that a few weeks ago. He was rolling like crazy on his activity mat so it made me nervous. The first few nights were AWFUL (we did cold turkey instead of one arm out at first) but then he got much better with it. I would have to go in multiple times during the night to help him back to sleep. I would hold his arms tight to his body and slowly let up the pressure until he was asleep. We transitioned him to a sleep sack and he does well with it now.

I guess my only advice is if you're going to start, stick with it and give it at least a few nights before making any changes.

We stopped with swaddling at 3.5 months. DD was clearly ready, and she did great going cold turkey to no swaddle. Rocking to sleep is a whole different story. DD is 7 months old, and she still gets rocked to sleep. I'm trying to wean her off of it, but it's an uphill battle.

yes, we weaned naps and nighttime sleep at the same time...I just wanted to get it over with at once! Weaning off swaddling is tough but so much easier now just having to zip him up in a sleep sack.