We stopped wrapping Claire when she was about 5 months old. She started to want to sleep with her arms out and her legs spread out around that time and would squirm her way out of a wrap and cry till we got the wrap off her.
I am ashamed to admit that Ela, who is now 13 months old still sleeps with her arms wrapped.
We lightly wrap her arm when she has her bottle before bed and then we unwrap her when we settle her in her cot. She does not sleep if we don't wrap her. I guess by summer she should be out of it
Aah.. don't feel ashamed Turkish Delight! You just made me feel a lot better about wrapping as long as I have! hehe. I've found it handy in winter.. I know once DS wasn't being wrapped he wouldn't have a bar of sleeping bags or blankets or anything.. so wrapping in the early winters has been very handy
Thanks Marlene for the post as I have been thinking the same thing & my DS is a little older than yours. He hates the process of being wrapped but seems to sleep better once he is wrapped. He is also still in his cradle so the few times I have put him a sleeping bag he plays with the side of the cradle so I have to put him in the cot which I am putting off. Anyway as he is getting bigger then the wrap he is making them looser himself while he sleeps, I don't wrap his legs so much anymore - mainly his arms. I don't wrap him so tight anymore either in an attempt to get him use to the idea of not wrapping him.
Please keep us updated, thanks
well, I tried to put Jack to bed unwrapped last night, he cried and cried until I wrapped him, he then promptly put himself to sleep, LOL. So I don't think the wrapping has anything to do with his sleeping issue at the moment. He was up every couple of hours last night as well.
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