Swaddling

How many months do babies usually need to be swaddled?

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Planning to swaddle till she can sleep without one. Till date she's 2mo and I realized whenever she's not in swaddle, she'll wake up very quickly from naps or sleeps. But once she's in swaddle, she can sleep for hours. Sometimes she will reject swaddle if she doesn't want to sleep yet. So I believe she had associate swaddle with sleeping time.

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Different babies are different I guess. But it’s pretty effective for the first 3 months, I feel.. when the Moro reflex is still very strong, and that wakes baby up. My first daughter never liked the swaddle.. and we stopped after the first month. My second daughter had it till 4 months. And it helped her sleep much better.

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Depends on your baby. Every baby is uniquely different, our baby stop swaddle at 2 months. Monitor your Baby's preference, see if baby can sleep soundly with swaddle or without swaddle. If without swaddle, remember to cover baby with blanket when baby sleep to prevent baby from catching cold and keep baby warm.

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It really depends on your baby. My LO is 5 months old now and is loosely swaddled at night as his Moro reflex still disturbs his sleep occasionally. But you will kind of know when it's time to wean him/her off e.g. when they struggle and appear uncomfortable with the swaddle or you often find the hands out.

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Depends on the baby. I stopped swaddling my boy at abt 3 mnths, cus he was always struggling when being swaddled and his hands always manage to creep out when swaddled so i gave up and put him in those zip-up slepping bags only during naps and betime.

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Depends on your baby. My first child loves to be swaddled so we swaddled him till 8 mths. Currently my second child is turning 7 mths and we are still swaddling her. They sleep longer when swaddled imo

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It depends on your baby! My lo is 6 months old but she still uses the love to dream kind of swaddle to sleep at night

Depends on the child. My 2week old alr sleeping happily without swaddle at 1week+. Swaddle, no swaddle she also OK

The baby will decide :) .. my lo stopped at 5mth

My Lo refused to be swaddled after 2 months