Transitioning out of swaddle

Hi guys. My LO is almost 12 weeks and sleeps in a velcro swaddle since she was born. Any ideas on how to transition her from swaddle to eventually arms out being able to soothe herself to sleep in the night. My first thought was buy another swaddle that is arms up by the face first and go from there. Any tips?

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We have just been through this with our 4.5 month old. We tried unswaddling at 3.5 months but she wasn’t ready (she kept whacking herself and waking herself every 45mins or so), so we transitioned her into the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit for a month which gave her some access to her hands but suppressed the Moro reflex, and made her super cosy.

We then transitioned her from the Merlin to a 2.5tog sleep sack this weekend (and removed the dummy eep) and she did great. Slept 10 hours last night. I don’t think she would have been capable of that if she hadn’t had the month in the Merlin to learn to self sooth gradually

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are you able to link the sleep suits, i saw the merlin magic sleepsuit at £70 on Amazon is that the one you use?any alternatives that may be cheaper?

is this to transition can you link it x

We just transitioned our LO to a sleep sack. We bought a Velcro swaddle that has options for arms out or in and started with 1 arm out for a week (making sure to switch arms) then moved to both arms out and he's been great. It's a difficult transition at first I'll be honest but our LO adapted fairly quickly

hey! Yes that was the one. We bought ours second hand on eBay though, so was only £20

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