What did you use after swaddling?
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My LO would get cranky if he was tired and we had to wrestle him into a sleep sack, so we just went cold turkey after the swaddle - fleece sleepers since it was winter time.
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Magic Merlin at first but now nothing.
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Nothing. It was summer and hot. He just slept in a cotton sleeper.
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Sleep sacks for both kids.
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we did the magic merlin for a couple of months but then we did just a sleep sack. They are heavy and thick so if it was during the summer I probably would've skipped it.
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We were huge fans of the merlin sleep suit! After that it was nothing and DD transitioned well.
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Sleep sack for both kids. They both transitioned well at around 3 months
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We went from the swaddle, to the Merlin sleep suit, to the zipadeezip, now to a sleep sack.
It sounds ridiculous, but they all worked for whatever stage he was at.
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@raspberries @kt326 how old was your LO when you transitioned? My LO still startles herself and wakes up unless she's swaddled but I know we'll need to transition at some point.
@snowjewelz @valentinemommy is the Merlin suit hot?
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@ValentineMommy: same here- it sounds completely ridiculous but we did blanket swaddle, Velcro swaddle, woombie, Merlin's sleep suit, then sleep sack. Anything for a few nights of good sleep!
With my second we went from miracle blanket swaddle to Merlin's sleep suit around 4 months. She is 6 months now and our ped just suggested dropping it so she can roll on her tummy to sleep if she wants.
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@winter_wonder: the Merlin suit is not as hot as I would have thought looking at it. But both my LOs slept with just a short sleeve onesie underneath.
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@winter_wonder: I thought it would have been hotter. We just put DS2 in a onesie underneath and he was fine. If anything, we would turn the ceiling fan on just to circulate some extra air.
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Just a regular sleepsack if it was cold but since it was summer and hot she was often just in a diaper or onesie.
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LO1 used a sleepsack
LO2 still at 17m uses a zipadeezip -
We tried the Zipadee zip and Merlin neither worked for us.
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We tried to transition out of the swaddle at 4 months. It was too soon for her, and we pushed it off for another 3-4 weeks. (She didn't start *really* rolling until 5 months.)
Then we tried again with the Zipadeezip and it's worked great.
She's 14m now and still uses the Zipadeezip for naps at daycare, since they aren't allowed blankets in their cribs and the a/c keeps the place pretty cool.
Around 12 months, she started self-soothing by running her fingers through the silky part of her blanket, so that necessitated we stop using the Zipadeezip at night. The weather also got warmer right around that time, so it worked out.
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Sleeveless grobag sleep sack around 6 weeks I think. I love it and never looked back.
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Merlin for about a month, starting around 5 mos old, and a sleep sack after that.
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I did a baby deedee sleep sack for a few weeks then she started tummy sleeping so we used nothing.
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We did the Halo til 4.5 months (I know...) and now my 5 month old is in the ZipadeeZip and it's going great! Infact, when he's in a good, sleepy mood, we don't even use it and he sleeps with just a onesie on!
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@magnoliamama42: Do you think having them tightly swaddled delays rolling over? I've heard the Back to Sleep campaign has made rolling more of a 5 or 6 month milestone. Not a big deal, they just don't develop upper body as much. My guy is 5 months and was swaddled for a long time and is not rolling.
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woombie to train arms out of the swaddle, then into a muslin sleep sack.
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@pachamama: I was a little concerned about that, too. I had read that allowing them more freedom in the crib would get them rolling over faster.
In the end, her being able to sleep took precedence over any of it. We were doing everything else right - lots of tummy and floor time, limited time in swings, bouncers, etc. So I kept swaddling her to sleep and it all worked out fine. Eventually she figured out how to roll over during her waking hours. Then to sit, then to crawl, then to pull up, then to walk ... So no regrets here!
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@magnoliamama42: Good to hear! I hope my guy rolls soon. He stands, leaning against the couch on his own, but can't get his fat head over!
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Fleece sleepers. She hated being swaddled.
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@winter_wonder: a sleeper. cotton or terry
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After an arms down swaddle (which we only did for a few weeks), we went to the Love to Dream Love swaddlepod thing that lets the arms go up. After that, we switched to sleep sacks.
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@winter_wonder: It was around 3 months (he started rolling then.) He was still sleeping in the rock n play at that point - we did two more weeks unswaddled in the rock n play, then transitioned to the crib without swaddle/sleep sack at 3.5 months. (I wanted to get him used to sleeping in the crib before I went back to work at 4 mo.)
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Nothing. Breaking him of the swaddle was stressful and exhausting. Didn't want to have to wean him from something else.
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We transitioned to a sleep sack around 5-6 months. I will admit that at 34 months, DD is still rocking her sleepsack. She loves it and it keeps her from climbing out of the crib. We will retire it in August when she moves to a big girl bed.
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