How to stop wrapping for sleep

We've wrapped Oliver from birth & while he's never been a great sleeper, (wakes up for a booby feed at 10.30 & 5am)I can manage just fine with that.

We have him wrapped for sleeps but he's 4.5 months and can roll over now so I figured we needed to stop it. I've tried a night with no wrapping which was a disaster, up for two hours while he waved his arms about & knocked the dummy out but even wrapping with one arm in is bad. He just waves it around above his head :(

Does anyone have any ideas please?

I'm not sure why you think you should stop wrapping??? We continued to wrap DD for ages, particularly if she was restless. The trick is, you need a larger wrap. We used a single flat cot sheet.

hi Marydean,

I have a great wrap that still fits Olly, it's a stretchy lil fraser one, he loves it & so do I :)
I thought now he's rolling from his bacl to his front it would be safer for him to have his arms loose? I don't WANT to unwrap him....I;m just scared of him getting stuck on his tummy with his arms under him.

I agree with the others, there's no actual need to stop wrapping. I found that when Evan got to the stage where he was moving around a bit more i needed to wrap him tighter and with a larger wrap. I stopped wrapping him at around 6 months and made a very (surprisingly) easy transition to a grobag which i would HIGHLY reccommed as the next step to wrapping. They are expensive, but well worth it imo. Just beware of cheaper brands as they may not be breathable materials.

I feel so much better.....such good news I can keep wrapping!
I have bought a gro bag which he was in last night but he's much happier wrapped :)

mmmm, my girl is 6 weeks old and i have pretty much stopped wrapping her... she wriggles too much. is the a rule on this????

Melissa, if your DD wriggles her way out of the wrap and you want to continue wrapping, get a larger wrap :) Otherwise, if she is content sleeping without it, just go with that... No rules that I know of :)
Loulou, my DD is the same age and I wondered for a while about moving to a sleeping bag (although she can't roll all the way over just yet) but I guess she would need to free her arms to be able to roll over in which case she'd be able to position herself properly on her tummy if she did end up there, kwim?

She seams happy enough to sleep without being wrapped, especially now she has a hip harness. i thought 6 weeks might be a bit too young to unwrap?

Its totally your choice - or baby's to be precise ;) I think there are people on here who pretty much put their babies straight into a sleeping bag... Whatever baby and you are comfortable with, I reckon.

Hi snacks.... Olly does roll all the way over while wrapped so he cna't get himself in a good position as his arms are pinned :( I've got one of those wedges in the cot now to stop the rolling, I feel like thats a backwards step though.

Please tell me one day he won't want wrapping & I can breath easy about this!

Wow, rolling even when he's wrapped. Golly, that's a bit clever. If the wedge thingy works, then great. I reckon you've got to just go with what works until it doesn't anymore, kwim?
Breathe easy, Loulou. He won't want to be wrapped forever - he might get a bit cross if you try it when he's a teenager :lol:

Good luck with the wedge LouLou.

They will not want to be wrapped forever ;) and you'll know when that happens because they'll wriggle out before your very eyes and smile at you with pride.

I still partially wrap Ella as its a very powerful sleep cue for her. She also has a dummy and by 5.5months she had control of it and could pop it back in. Try unwrapping one arm during day naps so he gets use to pulling the dummy out and popping it back in. You might need to help him do it a few times.

Good luck :)

ok someone help me please!

Mason WILL NOT sleep unless he is wrapped super tight with his arms by his side.

BUT, he will try his hardest to get his arms out! and if he does, he will scream until you re-wrap him.

Now this is a joke at night time! I am using big wraps. I have tried stretchy wraps as well as flanellete ones. :(

Can you try wrapping a different way, Danni? Natalie is pretty good at getting her arms out however she is wrapped, but the most effective way for us is (lets see if I can explain it, LOL):
Fold one side of wrap over arm but under body
Fold other side of wrap over other arm but under body
Fold bottom of wrap up to shoulders and tuck around the outside
I hope that makes sense - its the best I could do! Hopefully you and Mason can work something out.

Wowee, that is clever, LOL.
:dunno: I've got nothing else, I'm afraid.

Dani try the kiddopotamus wraps. They have velcro on them and they are a bit stretch so you can pull them nice and tight. They are easy to do up in the middle of the night when you cant remember how to wrap. They also have a slot at the back so you can thread safety buckle and use them in the pram and car. We loved it.

Caro - yep you posted in my thread about transitioning to a grobag. We've now got one and she's almost ready to go into it :)

Ann

yep thats how we normally wrap snacks, but he still gets out.

luua: will look into them!

Danni theres a thing called a miracleblanket (google it, - australia only) that has arm wraps, but its expensive - $39.95.

I am sure I have seen other, cheaper wraps that have arm pockets in them though.

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Dani try the kiddopotamus wraps. They have velcro on them and they are a bit stretch so you can pull them nice and tight. They are easy to do up in the middle of the night when you cant remember how to wrap. They also have a slot at the back so you can thread safety buckle and use them in the pram and car. We loved it.



Ann

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We tried these with Jazzy as she was wriggling out of all her other ones, and she still managed to get her arms out of this.

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ok someone help me please!

Mason WILL NOT sleep unless he is wrapped super tight with his arms by his side.

BUT, he will try his hardest to get his arms out! and if he does, he will scream until you re-wrap him.

Now this is a joke at night time! I am using big wraps. I have tried stretchy wraps as well as flanellete ones. :(

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Danni I feel your pain!!! Charlie does the same thing, it's like a game when he comes into light sleep....he grunts & groans & wriggles gets out then screams to be wrapped again. If we've gotten him in good enough to not escape LOL he screams too as he's frustrated. I've used a cot sheet, bought a velcro wrap & so on but he wakes even more if he can't get free. This has lately been resulting in a 12am feed that never used to happen. I thought perhaps its time to stop but have realised it's easier said than done as that's all they know. I just borrowed a growbag from a friend & tried it last night with his arms free, within an hour he had woken himself up - so not ready for that.

But we are all taught to wrap them & then not told how to make the transition from wrapping. I'm starting to think if he could sleep unwrapped he would self settle easier as he wouldn't have a game in the middle of the night & would sleep better.

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Dani try the kiddopotamus wraps. They have velcro on them and they are a bit stretch so you can pull them nice and tight. They are easy to do up in the middle of the night when you cant remember how to wrap. They also have a slot at the back so you can thread safety buckle and use them in the pram and car. We loved it.

Ann

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I just bought a kiddopotamus wrap for the reason I posted above & hate it. The velco is so sticky that at night when he got stuck trying to escape LOL...have a great pic of this on his website, I would have trouble getting it unstuck & up again without taking too long, thus waking him completely. I also found that he's too big for the up to 6kgs one but too small for the next size we bought. Am I doing something wrong??

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I just bought a miracle blanket after reading replies on this thread....my son Blake is 3 months and wriggling out of his wraps at night so thought I'd try the blanket.

However, I'm confused. The instructions say not to clothe the baby in anything else other than a nappy. Perth at night atm is freezing so I'm leaning towards dressing him as I would normally do when wrapping.

I'd appreciate comments from others who have this blanket and how they clothe their baby.

Pen