Should I keep trying, or is he just not ready?

[Miss E]

Over the last week or so I have been trying to wean DS from wrapping. He worked out how to roll onto his belly last week so has started doing it in bed. When he is wrapped he gets stuck and can't prop himself up.

So I decided the time had come to stop wrapping. I did try about 6 weeks ago but decided he wasn't ready. I did the weaning process (albeit quite quickly) and yesterday and today he has had his naps without being wrapped (I still wrapped him overnight cos I didn't want to disturb that sleep). The problem is it takes a long, long time to get him to settle. I'll go through the normal routine give him a cuddle and sing to him and then put him down when he's nuzzling, but as soon as I put him down he can't stop wriggling (normally he self settles and goes off to sleep reasonably quickly). Eventually he gets grizzly and upset and literally falls asleep out of exhaustion mid grizzle. This means I am having to rock the cot etc to keep him calm until he goes to sleep and I'm worried about it becoming a habit...

He is waking up after about 25 minutes of sleep. Today I rocked him back to sleep and when I put him down I noticed that he still has startle reflex. It didn't quite wake him up, but I had to rock the cot to keep him soothed. He did sleep for 45 minutes after that (he was pretty exhausted).

So I'm wondering if he is ready not to be wrapped, or is this all part and parcel of him getting used to not being wrapped?

Any advice anyone has would be great cos I don't know what to do now...

[helle]

sorry to parade in on your thread...
I was just curious, is there a certain age you should stop wrapping? Does it stop a certain development?
Sorry, was just curious as I have seen a few of these threads lately!

[Miss E]

Thanks ladies, I think i might stick with it awhile longer... He does escape from his wrap all the time, but usually when he wakes up I think. Probably better to deal with him getting stuck every now and then rather than create some new sleep issues.

[Beautitude]

DS was wrapped till around 10 months and then all of a sudden one day it just stopped working and from then on he hasn't been wrapped anymore. He seems to do this with everything though, wrapping, dummy, dreamfeed. One day they work and the next day they just dont. I say if it works keep going with it.

[~Kim~]

Same as Isobel. We wrapped for a long time with DD. I did stop for about a month but it meant crapper sleeps than we were already having.
WIth the Little Guy he just refused one day at about 6 months.
All bubs are different and if he's still good with the wrapping and it helps - why the heck give it up?
JMO

[~Kaz~]

sorry to parade in on your thread...
I was just curious, is there a certain age you should stop wrapping? Does it stop a certain development?
Sorry, was just curious as I have seen a few of these threads lately!

There are various schools of thought. I agree with Kim, every baby is different and some love to be wrapped for a long time and others let you know it's no longer working much younger.

In terms of the developmental stuff, I have been told (and heard) by CFHN/MCN's etc that they recommend babies cease to be wrapped at 6 months. They have said to me that it is important for babies to learn to sleep without being wrapped and also that they need to be able to start moving around in their sleep, rolling on their sides, dealing with sheets and blankets directly over them etc etc. (I am not endorsing this - if wrapping works keep doing it until it doesn't is my personal opinion - just repeating what I've heard on the developmental stuff). HTH.

[Beautitude]

In terms of the developmental stuff, I have been told (and heard) by CFHN/MCN's etc that they recommend babies cease to be wrapped at 6 months. .

Our CFHN told us when we started mothers group (it was run by cyh initially and we had little classes about sleep, feeding etc) that some babies are wrapped till 18 months or older and that this isn't a problem and is actually quite normal. Its funny how they all have a different opinions!

[~Kaz~]

Yeah the opinions are everywhere. There's a mum in my mum's group IRL who wrapped her older daughter until she was 2 years. Worked for bub and the mum said it stopped a lot of standing up and tantruming in the cot so it worked for her too.

[Miss E]

It's amazing how many differing opinions there are, my mchn told us to stop wrapping between 3 and 4 months... I guess it's just a case of what works for your bub.

[BhoysGirl]

I didn't worry about unwrapping my DS until it was obvious that he was escaping from the wrapping himself, which happened at about about 7months. If your DS' sleep patterns have become more unsettled with the unwrapping, I'd start it up again, maybe just a bit looser if you're worried about him getting stuck if he rolls over.