So as the title suggests, i want to know when or why you stopped wrapping your baby to sleep.
Ds is nearing 4 months and is wrapped to sleep ONLY at night. He will happily sleep unwrapped for hours during the day.
I wondering if i should bother with the night wrapping at all and get him in a sleeping bag thingy. My only hessitation is that the wrapping is part of our night routine of bath, boobie, wrap then bed and this works well for us.
The main reason i am thinking of stopping is that lately when he wakes for a night feed he has worked his arms out (he likes to suck his fingers) and they are getting cold unwrapped. I dont want to put long sleeved tops on him to sleep as he gets too hot in them.
I probably should just try it but i am interested to hear when and why others stopped first
We stopped wrapping her arms at day 3 and the rest at about 3 weeks. lol
Sorry, probably doesnt help much!!
Charlotte hated being wrapped and has always moved alot, kicked and tossed etc while sleeping so yeah! Got rid of that quick smart and she instantly went form sleeping in 2 hour blocks to 4 hour blocks.
I did have a couple of Baby Sacks I call them lol the sleeping bags with arms, like grobags, just got the fleecie ones from KMart or whereever, they were ace, she loved them, until she rolled at 4 months, then they would get wrapped around her and she hated them.
If it is part of your routine, perhaps weaning him off it may help - like stop wrapping his arms for a week or so and then the legs?
Good luck!
at about 4 months we stopped because DS started rolling, before that it was also part of our routine and DS couldn't sleep without being wrapped at all!! so it was 2 hard weeks of sleepless nights and days, but we got there in the end. i replaced the wraps with a grobag and he loves them now! i'm so glad we did it because now he's moving so much he always ends up sleeping on his tummy.
we do solids-play-bath-grobag-boobie-sleep, works well for us.
DD hated being wrapped from about 3weeks but then we had trouble settling her later and started wrapping for nights again at about 3months. We only stopped at around 10months because it was starting to get warmer at nights and she was unsettled due to heat. I tried to wrap looser to wean her off but that was more trouble than it was worth and she slept fine inthe day without so I just went cold turkey on her and she was fine. She still had the rest of her routine to cue her sleep: tea, bath, book, bottle, bed.
Ds isnt rolling over yet but doesnt look like he will be far off. Just to add to confusion last night he slept 7 hours straight and didnt unwrap himself ?!?!?!?
I'm thinking maybe he wakes up cause he gets out of the wrap and gets cold but then again??
I'll more than likely get a sleep bag and try him out in a f/t (i'll wait till he has his needles next friday, as last time he was quite unsettled with his sleep afterwards). It wont hurt to give it a go and see how it is.
Thanks again for all your replies, iguess i was worried too that it might be too soon but it seems not. i'll let you know how i go
i asked this probably 2/3 weeks ago....i have just the last week i would say stopped wrapping Jack...as he is mini-houdini..and can escape any wrap!!! so now he sleeps un wrapped and i am soo much happier that i don't have to deal with him waking because he is unwrapped...
Just wantd to let you know that last night i tried ds in a grobag and it went really well. He slept soundly despite being a bit unwell and only woke twice for a feed
He has had a cold and so have i the last few days and our sleep has been shocking with ds waking nearly every hour so i figured what harm could it do, wont make his sleep any worse lol!
Trying it again tonight, hopefully it wasnt just a fluke!
when did you stop wrapping your baby?
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