sleep training at 4 months, keep swaddled or unswaddle

[Anonymous]

My four month old is going through the 4 month sleep regression. Currently he is in the snoo swaddled on weaning mode (it doesn't rock him). He can fall asleep on his own, but even then, was up last night at 11, 2, 4, and 6. Before this, he was sleeping 7-10 hour stretches and then a night feed and a few more hours. It's been about two weeks since he slept normally. I have been feeding him at night when he wakes up and he does go back to sleep, but now I feel we are on a cycle where he is getting too many calories at night and uninterested in really nursing during the day. I don't mind feeding him once at night, but I don't think he needs more than that right now.

If I sleep train him, should I lose the swaddle? Move him to the crib? I hate trying to figure out sleep stuff.

[Anonymous]

I would lose it. One less thing to have to work on. Get him a zipadeezip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would lose it. One less thing to have to work on. Get him a zipadeezip.

+1

[Anonymous]

Unswaddle bc at this point kid should have already been unswaddled for weeks if not months. Its bad for development.

Get a GroBag and be done with it.

[Anonymous]

No swaddle! Use the snoo as a bassinet or transfer to the crib if your baby is rolling.

[Anonymous]

sorry I'm an outlier--but I would keep the swaddle. many babies wake themselves when their hands/arms flail normally during sleep

[Anonymous]

Swaddle - happy baby, stick with what is working.

[Anonymous]

If you think he’ll cry a lot—un swaddlle. They soothe themselves with sucking their hands

[Anonymous]

I moved my kid into the zipadee zip at this age and he's always done really well in it.

[Anonymous]

Just chiming in to say: babies really should not be swaddled with their arms in at this age. It's okay if it's not too snug and you are using one of those swaddles with where they can have both arms out (at which point it's just a sleep sack, but some of them do allow you to covert them to this). Basically as soon as they can even start the motion of rolling (front to back or back to front), they should not be swaddled.

[Anonymous]

I would unswaddle and move to a crib. Keep consistent sleep routines and you will make it through.

[Anonymous]

We used the Merlin for sleep training

[Anonymous]

We were in the exact same boat as you - using the SNOO to get through the 4 month sleep regression, but still struggling.

We opted to go cold turkey right to full on sleep training. We used the Sleep Easy Solution - slowly wean night feeds, CIO with checks. That first night, it was in his room, in his crib, no swaddle. Tough week, then amazing! Totally worth it.

I wouldn’t sleep train in the swaddle. They’re learning to self soothe and may need to wiggle, flap their arms, or suck their fingers to do so.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all. I put him down in the crib tonight in one of those zip a dee things. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

We sleep trained at 4 months and I was a wreck about putting him down without the swaddle, but he did great. First night was hardest with about 45 min of crying but then he slept for 12 hours, waking up once to nurse. Better to train without it as you’d have to retrain later once you decide to take away the swaddle.