Swaddle Baby Sleep Longer

Trade your swaddle blanket for a transitional sleep sack.

Swaddle baby sleep longer.

Denis leduc associate professor of pediatrics at mcgill university health centre and director of the newborn nursery of the royal victoria hospital in montreal proper swaddling of the infant for the first two months of life may promote longer sleep periods. Your baby starts off sleeping without the swaddle and sleeps this way for about half or a third of the night. Another swaddle transition option. In general in my 10 years of experience as a sleep consultant i have found that most babies adjust to sleeping without a swaddle blanket within 1 2 weeks on average.

Swaddling your baby with one or both arms out is perfectly safe as long as you continue to wrap her blanket securely. Swaddling helps prevent unnecessary wakings caused by baby s startle or moro reflex. However even at that age late night wakeups are still considered normal. Baby will sleep longer and sounder.

Swaddling or wrapping a baby up in a blanket so their arms and legs are snug and secure is an age old technique that can help newborns sleep longer and cry less. A baby will start rolling in the swaddle sometimes as much as a month after they start rolling without the swaddle. The american academy of pediatrics says babies don t have regular sleep cycles until 6 months of age. That is why parents like swaddling the baby sleeps longer and doesn t wake up as easily she said.

In north america 90 percent of infants are swaddled during their first few months of life. Swaddling helps keep baby in the back sleeping position. It also reminds us tired parents to place her on her back to sleep in the first place baby will experience less anxiety. During the study the infants spent several hours sleeping.

In a study of 16 infants aged 6 16 weeks the researchers found swaddled babies sleep longer and are less likely to wake up spontaneously. In fact some newborns prefer being swaddled with one or both arms free from the very beginning. If they are younger babies who learned to roll early but still have the moro reflex these babies sometimes take 3 4 weeks or more depending on age and development. If your baby wakes up fussy you can swaddle them for the remainder of the night.

But if misapplied could be associated with adverse events such as hyperthermia sudden infant death syndrome sids or development of hip dysplasia. A baby that is swaddled in the arms pinned to the side position takes longer to master the roll.