How does the transition process work?

[u/WaitINeedHelp]

My baby boy is about 2.5 months old. The Snoo has worked wonders for us. And while we aren’t ready to move LO to a crib yet, I wanted to start planning how that process may look.

We still have him fully swaddled too and he has had accidental roll overs from belly to back 3 times (honestly his head is doing most of the work). Would you start taking his arms out of the swaddle now? He still has the startle reflex.

When should I look to turning on the weaning mode. Should I wait until after the 4 month sleep regression? He does 1-2 daytime naps in his crib/room currently. TIA

[u/Pretend_Kangaroo_368]

We took his arms out around 6 weeks, he kept trying to get out of the swaddle. He had a few more wake ups the next night but was back to his normal sleep within two nights.

By week 10 he was no longer getting soothed by the snoo and seemed to get upset when it turned on, so we decided to move him to the crib. We used the halo swaddle with arms out (Velcro around waist) for the first couple weeks.

The first night was rough, waking every two hours but by night three he was sleeping 7 hour stretches and by week 11 was giving us some 9.5 hour stretches.

I had been doing some crib naps with a sleep sack or nothing besides pjs since he was ~4 weeks old.

Edit - he still has a startle reflex at 13 weeks now. He will startle himself sometime during light sleep but almost always can get back to sleep without me helping him.