When to stop swaddling?

[butterfly_warrior]

Still swaddling at nearly 9 months here. It works for us, so I can't see a reason to stop. I do sometimes have visions of us swaddling our son in a sheet and cuddling him to sleep at age 15, but I'm sure he'll eventually decide it's not such a great thing.

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[NZGirl]

I'm still swaddling at seven months. We've tried a couple of times not to and it didn't really work so I'll keep doing it till she wants her arms out!

[Jess]

My MCH nurse says to leave their arms out of the swaddle when they can roll, so that if they roll onto their front in their sleep they can push themselves back onto their back and make sure they're not faceplanted into the mattress where they could suffocate.

[Salsa]

Yes, when I swaddle DS I leave his arms free. If I try and wrap one of them, he always wriggles it free straight away anyhow.

[Janie]

Wrapped DS until 10 months, I stopped because everyone else seemed to think I should "He's too old" blah blah blah. Stupid, stupid, stupid thing to do! Should have just kept doing it until he was ready to stop, because his sleep went right out the window (not that it was perfect) and we had all sorts of troubles, for aaaaages. Next baby will be swaddled for as long as it bl00dy well wants to be