Pulling arms out of swaddle - help

My 3 month old son keeps getting his arms out of his swaddle no matter how tight we put it. He uses the halo swaddle. He's very close to our growing it and definitely not ready for arms out - we tried.

Does anyone have an suggestions of what I can try to do or any recommendations of other swaddles I can try.

My son is already in a 3-6 month swaddle, which is the last size of "swaddles" in the halo brand.

Thanks!!!

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Just allow arms out at that point. When my daughter started to wiggle her arm out of the halo swaddle sleep sack I just started to transition her to arms out - I’d leave one out intentionally and then eventually both arms out - you can still gently snug up the Velcro swaddle “wings” around their body and leave arms out.

I agree that it’s probably a good idea to start transitioning to arms out at this time. At 3 months old your son will probably be close to rolling soon so you’d have to stop swaddling anyways. Better to start now so you have time to ease into it. Starting with one arm intentionally out is a good place to start. You could also try the love to dream swaddle up sleep sack or look into other “transition swaddles”. Good luck!

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Get the Large (18-26lbs). Watch the video - there is an inner band that velcros their arms down. My little Houdini escaped every Halo sack but couldn't get out of this. Alternatively, mine seems okay with the Love2Dream transitional sleep sack with zipoff wings. I was surprised but he sleeps equally well in the wings as he does in a tight swaddle.

My little man (3 months) has never wanted his arms swaddled, he's broke out his arms since he was 4 weeks old. At first I just swaddled him with his arms out, and then at 2 months I started using a sleep sack

Just let him have them out. Mine always had his arms out. He hated it when they were tucked in.

After 2 weeks my girl could t stand a swaddle and always broke out of it regardless of how I swaddled her. I tried probably a dozen different ways and used 2 swaddles to contain her since we used the hospital blankets and muslin cloth. She still broke out of it. We just went straight to no swaddles at 2-3 weeks since I coslept with her at that point and still do.

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