Many 19th- and early 20th-century scientists believed that accumulating wastes in the colon triggered a state of âauto-intoxication,â whereby poisons emanating from the gut produced infections that were in turn linked with depression, anxiety and psychosis.
There is no absolute age for when you must stop using a swaddle. How long you swaddle your baby past 3-4 months will have to be determined by you based on your assessment of your babies needs, the risks, the benefits, the mobility of your baby and good old mama intuition. Some babies just absolutely need to be swaddled longer in order to sleep more than 20 minutes at a time. My two youngest were swaddled until 7 and 8 months of age. I know of babies that have been swaddled well past one year of age and swaddling longer can be especially helpful for little ones with special needs.
How to prevent the rolling phase. There are some ways we can seemingly prevent this phase (or at least, delay it as long as possible so that hopefully by the time the phase hits, baby is efficiently rolling both ways). A few tricks are: Swaddling baby. Keep your baby swaddled for as long as possible. Until baby is able to roll in the swaddle, you can continue to keep her wrapped up. This often prevents baby from rolling in the crib (ensure that the swaddle is nice and snug as this makes rolling even more difficult).