Swaddling / Wrapping your Baby

[bellabub]

This may be a silly question - but how long do you wrap/swaddle your baby for? My DD is almost 4 weeks old and loves to wriggle. I have heard mixed reports about how long I should be wrapping her to sleep from 1 to 6 months.

Thoughts??

[Snacks]

We're still wrapping at 4.5 months here and will continue to wrap for as long as DD wants. There are other recent threads about wrapping too - some people wrap beyond a year old... Up to you and your bub

[~Jayne~]

Hey There,

I figure to wrap them as long as they want to be wrapped. My firstborn was unwrapped basically right out of hospital, but my new bub who is almost 12 weeks is still swaddled. She loves to be so snug & tight that I have bought her these wraps that have velcro tabs so I can get them done up SUPER tight! LOL.

The little girl next door to us was swaddled until she was 11 months old!!

Maybe you could try unwrapping DD during the day to see how she sleeps. I have heard lots of people using sleeping bags for limited leg movement, but free arm movement?

Do whatever works best for your bub.

HTH.

Love Jayne

[Lucy]

Olivia lasted about 6 weeks, Lexie about 2 months...........and Charlie is nearly 2 and still loves to be wrapped! (I need a bloody big blanket, let me tell you, he is a big boy!)

He brings me a blankie and lies on the ground, and giggles with happiness when I wrap him up...........

[Kazbah]

Are there any diagrams on swaddling? I was shown very quickly how to swaddle in a way that Patrick could move his arms - the swaddling started at the top of his scalp - but can't figure it out myself, I can only do the swaddling that starts at his neck. Hope this makes sense ...

I'm really hoping swaddling him better will stop him from moving up the cradle - he's only 3 weeks and already wriggling up the cradle!

[Olive]

sophie was out of wrp at 10 weeks!! but when she was wrapped it was tight!!

PMSL LUCY!!!! if i wrap sophie now on the very odd occasion shee too laughs!! so cute

[Tobily]

DS is nearly 8 months and I still wrap him.
Everytime he learns to get out of the wrap I just buy a bigger one and do him up tighter lol.
I suppose I'll have to wean him out of it soon, he's starting to move around alot in bed and I can't find any bigger wraps

[Ashlee]

She loves to be so snug & tight that I have bought her these wraps that have velcro tabs so I can get them done up SUPER tight! LOL.

Where abouts did you purchase these from?!

[luua]

Ella is 6 months old and is wrapped at the start of the night and breaks free soon after she's put to bed. We now leave her unwrapped for the rest of the night. Its become her sleep cue so we're weaning her off it since she doesnt seem to need it to sleep.

During the day she's wrapped Toga style with one arm out (to grab her dummy) as its harder for her to sleep during the day.

We also use the wraps with velcro (easier to do up if you need to in the middle of the night)

Ann

[MantaRay]

Like some of the others, we have had different experiences. Jack didn't want to be wrapped any more once he was about 2 or 3 weeks old. Tom wouldn't sleep well unless he was very tightly swaddled but then wouldn't have a bar of it after about 2 months.

I think it's all a matter of trial and error (and if it's not broke don't fix it).

[~Kim~]

We wrapped until 8months....

[Clarrie]

Does anyone else out there use the Happiest Baby on the Block swaddle? It's the one with a cloth triangle the babies arms straight down at their side. This is the one that I use on Bonnie, but so many other people have commented that my way of wrapping is "cruel". I don't think it's cruel, since Bonnie loves it and it is super effective.

Because it is quite an extreme swaddling style, I feel like I should wean her off it soon and maybe into another type of swaddle - but I know that she'll just wriggle out.

[Janie]

Ash, I think I've seen those wraps that Jayne is talking about at Baby Bunting. Maybe give Target a go too?

[Ashlee]

Sez-Hmmm not sure what baby bunting is lol But I'll check Target out, thanks sweetie!

[Clarrie]

Wow - 2 wraps with that swaddle, Freya IS a houdini! Actually, Bonnie is getting better and better at getting one arm out now, so maybe I will have to go the 2 wrap route. But how do you use 2 wraps? What do you do with the second wrap...?