Swaddle question

Can any moms share their strategies on swaddle to sleep sack transitions? My second baby is almost 3.5 months old and we still swaddle him, but I’m reading online that he should be transitioned to sleep sack by now or at least by 4 months. He does roll from belly to back but not back to belly, and with arms freed, he can turn to his side. But when we tried putting him in one of the transitional sleep sacks with the zipper-off sleeves, due to the free arm movements he just doesn’t fall asleep as fast or doesn’t stay asleep as long as when he’s in the swaddle. I don’t remember much from my first baby but I don’t think we switched out of the swaddle this early. Looking thru his old clothes I see I have swaddles going up to 3-6 months and then sleep sacks that are 6-12 months and 12-18months. So I’m guessing we started the sleep sacks with my first somewhere around or closer to 5 or 6 months (really not sure). Is it bad to keep him swaddled at least at night? If so, what’s the best way to transition him to sleep sack? He’s actually a great sleeper, sleeps through the night from 1030 to 730. I’m afraid that the sleep sack transition will ruin this.

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We bought this blanket that has buttons in the front so that it’s still safe in the bassinet but keeps him still feeling snug but room to have his arms out. It took awhile for him to get used to it and definitely didn’t sleep as well. We slowly have transitioned him out of that and he is only a week away from 4 months. Took awhile for him to sleep and he still will wake himself up but sometimes he will just kick and get himself back to sleep.

My LG is 14 weeks just over 3 months and we swaddled her until 3 weeks ago it’s hard as she doesn’t sleep as much as she would in the swaddle. I just felt it was a time to change her while she still in our room didn’t want to change too much at same time. As she will be going into her cot in a few weeks. She can’t roll over or that yet. So what best for you x

I ended up being the queen of swaddling because even as a newborn my son managed to wiggle the blanket loose, but he HATED any sort of nontraditional swaddle. When he was getting ready to roll my ped recommended what she called the one arm technique. It still gave him the comfort on his chest but got him used to free arms.

If you’re using a regular square blanket to swaddle, do it normally but leave one arm free for like a week or two, then both arms, just wrapping around his chest just below his armpits. This also gives him more room to move legs as well since there’s more slack.

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