Looking for thread about baby wrapping and when u stoped?

[Anila]

I thought i saw a thread a few weeks ago asking when people stoped wrapping their babies.

Im looking for it, but cant find it.

But yeah just wanted to know when u stopped wrapping ur baby, especially in winter.

[Arimeh]

I only really had one winter baby (although dd3 is still little now!) but mine were wrapped for about 2 weeks max cos they preferred to sleep on their belly.

Dd3 hates being on her belly, and loves being wrapped - she is 3 months.

[PumpkinZulu]

We never really started wrapping to begin with. On the first few nights we did, but DD sleeps in with us, and she loves to have her hands free to play with and stuff.

ETA we do have her in a sleeping bag or with a warm blanket though.

[black_rose]

Dd1 was wrapped for about 9 months then she was bundled up in a sleeping bag that still had her arms in. It was probably about 12 months we stopped her.

Dd2 was wrapped over winter in muslin wraps and then a fleece blanket and then a cot blanket on top.

Ds was only wrapped for two days, he just cracked it!

[Ginger]

I wrapped ds2 for ages. Probably till 12 months or more? He loved it.
Ds1 hated being wrapped.

[OceanPrincess]

My winter bub was only wrapped til about 4mths. By then it had started getting warmer and he seemed happy just chilling in his sleeping bag.

We wrapped in flannelette mostly, then some brushed cotton. He would have wool or fleece blankets on top of the wrapping.

DD I found it really hard as I was swaddling her in the scorching Melbourne months!

[MummaBee]

We wrapped until we could not wrap any more or little boy loved it hehehe. In the end he was getting out by himself and we eventually accepted ok so no more wrapping lol. We did live in a cooler climate and on the warmer days we went for Muslim wraps. Best of luck

[Anila]

Thanks girls
Bubs doesnt mind being wraped as long as her arms are free, as she sleeps with her hands above her head, which when she wakes in the morning her hands are frozen.

Hubby, was and still is totally bad at wrapping the kids, and it looks terriable, so i think why bother, (i always end up fixing it).
Might try to keep it going till it warms up i guess.

[RhiChiChi]

From memory DD was about 12 weeks, then we put her in a sleeping bag

[Taurean]

At 10 weeks when we put DD in Grobags. She wasn't phased by the change at all, much to our surprise!

Have a look at 'Love to Swaddle Up' (google it, Aussie site). They are swaddle bags which allows bubs to sleep with their arms up

[Babyluv]

Put mittens on her, dd is in a sleeping bag & I found the same thing, that she would get icy little fingers, the mittens have solved the problem

[Anila]

Thanks for the tip taurean, ill check them out.

I gave away all my blue stuff which had 000 sleeping bags, and from what i can find in my pink stuff they start at 0, i thought i had a 00, but cant find it.

Babyluv, i tried mittens, but shes a hand sucker, just found her thumb, and seems to pull the mittens off or make them all wet.

[UntoldAngel]

I think DS was about 4-5months... but I wasn't strict on wrapping him, some nights he would go to bed without being wrapped and it never worried him

Even now we go between a grobag and just his blankets... generally depends on how close to zero degrees it is outside

[helle]

I felt pressured to stop wrapping DS at around three months, but probably stopped at around 4 as he started refusing to sleep on his back altogether and preferred his belly.

[MummaSue]

I had to keep wrapping DD until she was 7 months old. She's a very full on baby and doesn't stop moving, I found that once she was wrapped, she could settle to sleep much easier.

She's 15 months old now, and some nights I am *this* close to wrapping her She's full on!

But she slept so much better in the wrap - and it was a very difficult few weeks when we had to stop - it was getting to hot for her to be wrapped.