Does anyone have any advice on how to transition from swaddle to sleep sac? My son loves being swaddled and every time that I try putting him down in a sleep sac he cries and wakes up a bunch. Eventually I'm so tired that I just give in and put him back in a swaddle. TIA
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I saw Paula Morales McDowell on Instagram with her baby napping next to her in the bassinet and when baby girl woke she just held her hands gently together until she went back to sleep. She said she doesn’t do it every time but it’s an option you could try during naps to help him figure it out. Some people also swear by the Magic Merlin Sleep Suit, we never got one since my son sleeps so hot, but stuff like that is sort of an in-between

We went from swaddled to unswaddled. We had just started transition and sleep went oiyt the window and then the regression hit so I went back to swaddling because it at least helped some. When it was over I just slept her on her stomach unswaddled once and it work so now that's just want we do

Have you tried the swaddles that you can leave the arms out? Halo has them.
We mostly used the love to dream swaddles and they had transitional ones that you could start leaving one arm out.
I started with the naps and once she got use to that we changed them for bedtime also

So we went with a transitional swaddle. So one where the arms can come out the top if baby tries hard enough. We still use this for night time sleeping. We use a traditional sleep sack for naps (to get her used to it) where the arms go all the way through. She's 5 months now. As soon as she rolls, we will go all the way to the sleep sack, but she's not rolling yet

We used the zipadee zip once she started rolling. Before that we used a transitional swaddle off Amazon that let's you unzip one arm at a time.

A friend of mine used zipadee zip. I stopped swaddling during the 4 month sleep regression which I thought came early at 3.5 months. He started rolling at 4 months and just got used to not being swaddled anyway. His sleep was already bad so I figured take away the swaddle. It wasn't keeping him asleep.

I just transitioned my 6 month old, i find that transition swaddles help. Still have their arm in the swaddle but free for them to use and gives them the ability to self soothe. I used it once a day first at night as that’s when he falls asleep easier) then slowly transition all the naps as well within a week or two
Transition Swaddle, 2 Pack Baby... https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CB88NWVX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share