How to know when to stop swaddling your baby
When to Stop Swaddling Your Baby
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now as with everything in life all good
things must come to an end so there is a
recommendation currently that we're
encouraging that parents stop swaddling
and that's about two to two-and-a-half
months of age currently there's not an
American Academy of Pediatrics statement
or guideline for this practice
but we're encouraging this two to two
and a half month timeframe that is
currently suggested by dr. Rachel moon
who's one of the lead authors of the
American Academy of Pediatrics safe
sleep guidelines and also one of the
chair members of the American Academy of
Pediatrics Task Force on SIDS or sudden
infant death syndrome
so that's currently what we're
suggesting so some options that you
would have is you're seeing babies now
rolling over or you're approaching that
two to two and a half months is to
slowly transition them so then one of
our suggestions is that you can
partially swaddle so you can still
swaddle but now with their arms out so
essentially that will look very much
like this they're out
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so most of the moves are still going to
be the same so we still have kind of the
general concept of it but now we have
with baby's arms out so they still get
this warmth and it's still not a loose
blanket that's in one of the big
guidelines for American County
pediatrics is that we don't want loose
blankets out in baby's crib but again
the partial swaddle is a great way that
you can start to transition them other
options that we would have would be
moving from a traditional receiving
blanket and doing a swaddle that way a
full or partial swaddle moving to one of
these options this is called a halo
sleep sex swaddle and this is actually
one of the gifts to all of our new
parents receive on our postpartum unit
within the Norton system and basically
what this is is a little pouch that has
a zipper and here's a little armhole so
you can actually kind of place baby
inside zip them up and then at first
when it's appropriate to swaddle you
have these great little kind of wings or
tabs here that you can put baby in to
have their arms down or later on as they
need a partial swaddle you can still zip
them up as normal but then have the tabs
just further down so that way they still
have their arms that are out and able to
be free so that way if they're rolling
from their back to their tummy and they
need to roll back again they have their
arms available to them so it's safe for
them to do so in the event they were
feeling like they were in a compromised
situation and that would be a Stalag in
for a younger infant and then an
additional halo sleep sack that we have
the non swaddle tied is something that
looks like this so this would be for an
older infant so you can just see kind of
that size kind of comparison there so it
still has the zipper feature and still
has the armholes but just obviously for
a larger infants body and again doesn't
have those kind of swaddle little wings
or anything anymore just anticipating
swaddling would no longer be appropriate
for an infant once they're through this
size
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