Swaddle transition
Also called transitioning out of the swaddle, transition from the swaddle, dropping the swaddle, ditching the swaddle, de-swaddling, deswaddling, transitional swaddle, transition swaddle
Swaddle transition is the change from sleeping swaddled, with the arms wrapped in, to sleeping with the arms free. Parents also call it transitioning out of the swaddle, dropping the swaddle or de-swaddling.
How it's said
The transition was two weeks of genuine hell, I won't lie.
Shall I stick with the swaddle or start to consider the transition to sleeping bag?
Did anyone else have any experience of de-swaddling a baby?
Who says it
Where it came from
The phrase grew out of safe sleep guidance. The American Academy of Pediatrics ties the end of swaddling to a baby starting to roll, so every swaddled baby reaches a point where the arms come out.
Parenting sites and sleep consultants write about transitioning a baby out of the swaddle, and baby brands sell transitional swaddles made for the weeks in between.