Swaddling at 3.5 months?

My little girl is 3.5 months old and sometimes we still have to tightly swaddle her to get her to calm enough to sleep.. is this normal for anyone else? Technically she’s past the point where we should still be doing this and most of the time she sleeps on her back in a onesie or a sleep sack. But when she’s really upset nothing will calm her like a tight swaddle. Not a swing or bouncing or a hug or nursing. She just has to be swaddled and she falls right asleep and stays asleep. She turns side to side in the swaddle and eventually wakes up with the wrappings loose but I’ve never woken up to her entirely free and she still is up eating 2 times a night and sleeps in a bedside bassinet so we check on her frequently. I just feel like this is a little too long to be swaddled? She’s very small for her age and still has a strong startle reflex so I feel like maybe she just hasn’t reached the physical maturity as fast as others?

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Mine is also 3.5 months old. I’m working on getting her comfortable with not being swaddled either. It’s a gradual process, but she’s still managing to sleep through the night.

My little one is 3.5 months (16 weeks tomorrow) and I want to say I stopped swaddling her 2-2.5 months ago. I work in childcare and we are not allowed to swaddle children in care. It is against licensing rules. So in contemplating sending my daughter to care I wanted to begin the transition to a sleep sack pretty quickly, in hopes that by the time we were to bring her to care she would be used to it. She sleeps great without the swaddle now and I want to say it was a fairly easy transition. I am impressed with how quickly she has adjusted.

My girl is 4 months and used to love to be swaddled and then it slowly turned into she didn’t want her arms just her legs so we will take a small blanket and tuck it from her waist down and she sleeps just fine like that

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