Startle reflex

Does anyone else’s little one have a very active startle reflex? My son finds it very difficult to stay asleep because he constantly wakes up due to the reflex. I’m still swaddling him at 17 weeks, but I’m trying to wean him off it but he keeps startling. Any advice?
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What swaddles are you using? Really hard to go totally cold turkey we found.. so we used the stages love to dream swaddles suggested x

I’m finding the same so using the love to dream like @Jen said. He’s not trying to roll yet so I’ve just had him in one of those for a week which is 1 tog and have been putting a 1 tog ordinary sleeping bag over the top. I’m going to try one arm out in the next couple of weeks but was just waiting to see if we had a sleep regression first to get through x

I know it’s probably not considered safe sleep but we are using cellular blankets as we found he’s still startle in those bags. Particularly his legs, they’re always kicking. We’re also going through a regression so I thought it might be a good idea to try something new to see if it sticks but now I’m not so sure 🙈

@Pea we moved to a swaddle up love to dream where she’s now sleeping with all legs & arms separate/out, plus a sleep bag over the top. I’d thoroughly recommend - we went one wing off each week to get her used to it x

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