This is my first time using a forum - I wish I'd thought of it sooner! My little one is almost 7 months, and about to start child care two days a week. I really want to stop wrapping him to make life easy at child care (I think it might be a bit much to expect the carers to keep re-wrapping him if he comes 'undone', but I also want to make sure that he gets some sleep). Grandma will also be looking after him one day a week, and I think she will find it easier if she could just put him down without having to wrap him.

Although he doesn't seem to particularly like being wrapped (he's always pushed against it with his arms - he's wrapped with his arms up which he seems to prefer to having his arms down) it is the only way he'll drop off to sleep, and stay asleep. We've got to a great place with his sleeps - day and night - and I can wrap him and leave him to drop off by himself. He sleeps from 7pm - 7am at night, with just one wake (and not even every night).

But last night I tried a sleeping-bag instead - no wrap - and it was a disaster. He woke up between every sleep cycle, and would start crying through frustration at not being able to get back to sleep because his little arms were flapping. It also took ages for him to drop off, with me constantly rocking / cuddling / patting him. In the end the only way I could get a couple of hours straight out of him was to turn him on his front, but I hated doing that as it goes against the SID's recommendations, and I sat by his cot the whole time to make sure he was ok!!

I've cracked after one night, and he's now sleeping peacefully - wrapped! Can anyone suggest how I can make this transition as painless as possible for him; I guess I'm looking for some magic answer to avoid the upset and tears, but not sure I'm going to find one...