Hello
I need some hints/tips on how to move ds 4.5months from swaddling to a grobag. At the moment if his arms are free he thinks its party time, waves them in the air, grabs at the grobag, the dummy anything. Then he gets overtired, cries and his arms start shaking. If I swaddle him he shouts for a minute or 2 (or 10) and then goes to sleep. He is now at a point though where he is breaking free of the swaddling in the night and this seems to be disturbing him (yesterday morning he woke me up because he had wriggled sideways in the cot, legs between the bars and swaddling sheet was over his head!).
In the nicest possible way, I have limited patience for any rocking, holding down arms etc.... so really looking for a lazy option with minimal input from me . He self settles beautifully being swaddled and I would at least like to maintain this bit.
I am trying to practice with the grobag for naps before I dare to use them at night. At the moment, he's in a bag but his arms are swaddled down with the swaddling underneath him so he doesn't get too hot and so that its just his own body weight holding the swaddling down (does that make sense?).
TIA for any help
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pettyprudence · 16/08/2011 21:00
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