I started using it today but noticed it's tight. Are they supposed to be tight?
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I thought the same so I’m now using it as a sleeping bag. I expect it’s designed to be that tight but I personally didn’t like the restriction at all. The love to dream swaddle seems much better restriction wise.

If you use it as a swaddle yes it's meant to be tight, tight enough that they can't get their arms bent up and they stay by their side. We stopped using as a swaddle when baby boy was rolling onto his side so we undone the poppers on the arms and use them as a kind of sleeveless sleeping bag now which gives a bit more room. Our boy is currently in 3-6 clothing but went into 3-6 in the swaddlebags about 2 weeks before 3-6 clothing so you may need to size up if it's really tight

They are supposed to be tight enough to keep baby’s arms at chest level

Yeah I moved to 3-6 size although my baby is still in 0-3 clothes. And I popped his arms out. I didn't like how much it is tight

Yeah the tommee tippee ones do come up small I find! I’ve just had to move my boy into the 3-6 month one and he’s 10 weeks old but only on 25th centile so he’s not a big baby at all. His feet were right at the end of the 0-3 month one! X

It has to be fairly snug around the chest as it’s a swaddle. You can get non-swaddle sleeping bags though if you didn’t want it to be.