When did you stop swaddling?

[Polly D]

Baby no 2 is 3 months old and although generally a good sleeper he will really only sleep at night if tightly swaddled. He's in a cot in our room. He wakes 2 times in night for a feed and is pretty good at going back to sleep after a good burp but only if swaddled. I'm sure his big bro (now 4) was in gro bags by this stage.

It's no biggie just not sure he ought to be swaddled still and at 2am it's getting knackering doing it properly!

[Ole]

I think that after 1-2 months, we didn't get his first gro bag until he was 3 months so we must have been dong some form of swaddling until then. What I did after a couple of months is that we still swaddled him but not his arms, so he wasn't really swaddled any more but he still felt the comfort of a blanket cocooning him.

[hellosailor]

Yes we didn't start swaddling our daughter until I cottoned on to what a good thing it is when she was about 2 months! Then I think she was still swaddled for naps until about 5 months, but with first one arm, and then both arms out, using the miracle blanket, to get used to the sensation of not being swaddled.

[prm]

I'm still swaddling at 5 months (just the arms not the legs) and although he gets out of it fairly frequently it seems to help settling so I am planning to continue for now..

[buggie]

Be careful with swaddling too tightly round the legs, I found out the other week that tight swaddling has been seen to increase cases of hip dysplasia (dislocation):

http://www.hipdysplasia.org/developmental-dysplasia-of-the-hip/hip-healthy-swaddling/

Having had hip dysplasia myself (weirdly now only noticeable when I do breast stoke!) was surprised I wasn't aware of this already.

[cashewnut]

I think we stopped swaddling at around that age - 3-4 months. We dropped it really gradually - one arm at a time, one nap at a time, then overnight. We didn't have any trouble.

[SuzieK]

I swaddled my little one till about 3/4 months then went to a grow bag as she was frequently getting out of the swaddle by then.

I also did it little by little with arms out first then during her day time naps then lastly over might and didn't have any problems.

[MelissaVF]

I was a bit swaddle obsessed and all 3 swaddled with miracle blanket, and then arms swaddled on top of gro bag until 6-7 months. They just shook it off then so no hassle weaning off it (I just felt a bit self-conscious that it was a bit late, but looking back it seems a silly thing to have worried about and prob got me more sleep in early days - and they all slept through fairly young and still do now)

[Knomester]

I think we stopped around 4 months (by which time he could get his arms out), but then moved on to a sleeping bag with sheet tucked in tightly under arms to make him feel secure.