Has anyone else experienced this?...?

My daughter was 7 weeks prem and spent the first 4 weeks in the neonatal unit at hospital.
The nurses there would swaddle my baby to sleep as prems are very jerky. When we got her home we were told that she would sleep a lot sounder swaddled as newborns love the feeling of closeness like in the womb.
My daughter is 7 and a half months now (corrected age 6 months) and she really struggles to sleep unless she is swaddled.
She is smaller than the average 7 and a half month baby but not by much so im finding it hard to swaddle her and keep her swaddled during the night. She absoloutely hates her arms being free at night! Ive tried her in one of those sleeping bags, and she wouldnt sleep as her arms were free and ive tried just tucking her urms under her sheets with no avail.
Has anyone been through this or got any advice on what to do? I read you shouldnt swaddle after 6 months.

Ive also purchased one of those gro bags which has arms in it aswell and im waiting on it arriving thanks

My son slept more soundly swaddled until he was 6 1/2 months and still now almost 8 months if he is having trouble sleeping I will swaddle him and he'll fall alseep right away. I don't think that it's that you shouldn't swaddle after six months as much as by six months they would rather not be swaddled anymore.

I had the same problem. My doctor told me that she will adjust, it took two weeks without being swaddled before she would sleep soundly, but, now she sleeps just fine.

A friend of mine had a problem similar to this and I told her to just purchase a long sleeve shirt (big kid or adult size). Swaddle the baby in the shirt and then use the sleeves to wrap around the babies arms. Obviously do not do it too tight and if your baby isnt comfortable with this idea, then don't do it anymore, but its worth a try. Heck you might even have a shirt in your wardrobe or your husbands/bf's that you could try right now.
HOpe this helps.

Try a swaddling blanket with the velcro, not a receiving blanket. Target carries the blankets for 10 bucks.

Never heard of it, but I am sure she will probably outgrow it. All kids do !! Just like when some kids suck their thumbs, they eventually outgrow it, some at 3 or some at 5, it all depends on the kids... how safe and secure it feels to them. Now if you see in some way or another that it might get to a point where you feel she moves around a lot and might need her hands to protect herself then you should not tighten it up so much.......... or maybe just let her get use to not sleeping like that.. she will probably not be able to sleep at first but believe me...... she will get tired and fall asleep.

We swaddled our daughter until she was about 6 months old. Many people criticized me for doing it, saying that you should stop at 3 months. She slept all through the night like that and was a happy and healthy baby so I ignored them. After she was 6 months old she liked to roll around and sit up in her crib in the morning so I stopped swaddling her.

At night I would lay her in the crib and put a baby quilt on her and tuck it under her body a little on her sides and under her feet so she still feels secure, but she could kick the blankets off easily in the morning to play. She did not seem to mind and still slept 9-12 hours a night.

Once she was around 8 months old I just lay the blanket on her and didn't bother tucking it around her anymore.

if its okay with your doctor and if you feel comfortable with it, lay her on her side to sleep, (you can buy one of those cone pillows, it keeps them from rolling to the front) make sure the side she is sleeping on has the arm out in front of her, we did this for our daughter and it worked great. her laying on her side, wrapped up with a blanket under her arms (so that it couldn't get to her face) put her arms into position to be closed in together, just like they are when they are swaddled. after a couple of days, she would fall asleep so nicely, that we were able to gently turn her back onto her back, and she wouldn't wake up. Now she is 5mths old, and the cones no longer hold her, we have found her on her side, her back, the other end of the crib from where we originally put her, etc.

but, if its okay with the doctor, try it.

Every baby is different. If she enjoys swaddling, I see no reason why you should stop doing so.
As long as she doesn't get overheated and as long as she can not get entangled into all (which goes for non-swaddling as well!), she should be fine.
Enjoy your baby, she sounds like she is a happy little girl (as long as swaddled).