Any 4 month olds still swaddled?

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My daughter can't sleep at night without being swaddled. During the day she is fine because she sleeps in my arms (that's a whole other issue 🙄), but she will not stay asleep if she doesn't have her arms swaddled down by her sides, she'll just wake back up the moment I put her down in her crib. I've tried the love to dream swaddles, a sleeping bag, swaddling her with both or only one arm out, but the issue is that she's sooooo obsessed with her hands at the moment that she automatically brings them up to either right under her chin (and just that simple act of bringing her hands up will wake her up) or into her mouth to suck on, which of course wakes her up aswell. 
Are there any other babies out there with the same issues and are still swaddled at night because of them? When's the best time to stop swaddling them? I feel like it should be now, right? But it just won't work 😩😴

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My son is 4 month and he won't stay a sleep unless swaddled

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I swaddle my babe every night. He takes his arms out a lot but when he's fussing at night and I rewrap then he settles right down

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We don't swaddle anymore bc she was rolling to the side. We started each week with feet out, left arm, then right arm. She's obsessed with her hands too so we put socks over her hands and that does the trick. She can't suck on her fingers and it's harder to grab her hair or face.

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We still swaddle our son arms out. He sometimes flips onto his belly which freaks me out a bit but what are you gonna do.

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I dropped my daughter's swaddle about 4 weeks ago. I took it from her cold turkey. Honestly, the first night was pretty rough, but it only took about 3 nights for her to figure out how to get "comfy" in her crib without it. Then about 2 weeks ago I stopped swaddling her for nap-time and she's done fine. Ive read many different techniques online (like taking one arm out for a few nights, then the other arm, etc), but I just decided on the cold-turkey method and it worked for us. Good luck!

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My baby is almost 5 months old and she is still swaddled. She hasn't rolled from back to belly yet so I'm not concerned about her rolling over yet. Once she starts to show signs of doing that is when we'll stop swaddling. Her startle reflex is still pretty strong so swaddling is the only way to keep her asleep longer than a couple hours.  We're lucky because she's very easy to be put down for bed and sleeps through the night! 
Ours also sleeps in our arms for her naps during the day. If we try to put her down, she either wakes up or only sleeps for 30 minutes. She sleeps 2 hours when we hold her. We've tried everything to break it, but we've just come to terms that we will enjoy the baby snuggles while we got em. 😊

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My baby is 5 months and 5 days old and still swaddled. She won't sleep without her arms swaddled to her side, and my hand keeping her feet down. otherwise she does the same thing eith her hands, and lifts her feet too.

Any 4 month olds still swaddled?

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