Wrapping baby...how long did you do it for??

[Marlene]

My little man is 4 months old today and still sleeps wrapped. He woke up from his nap earlier and was squirming and kicking so I unwrapped him and gave him a cuddle. he fell back to sleep and I put him into his hammock unwrapped, it has been about half an hour and he is still asleep, do you think he just wants to sleep unwrapped now? He has been waking a lot more at night, maybe he just doesn'tlike being wrapped. I'm too scared to not wrap him at night, thinking that he may wake even more, LOL.

How long did you lovely ladies (and men) wrap your babies for? How did you know when to stop wrapping?

[~clover~]

I stopped wrapping Jesse at about 3 months only to have to start again.
I haven't been doing it as much since it started to warm up. I'll have to pay more attention to the nights he's wrapped & the nights he's not to see which is better. If there is a difference.

[Marlene]

Thanks bj, let me know if you notice a difference.

[Kmn]

We started leaving his arms free around 6 weeks, and stopped wrapping completely before 3 months. He slept much better without the wrapping.

[Visitor7]

We're still wrapping Emily. During the day she can sleep unwrapped, but at night she won't sleep unless she's wrapped. I had tried this week to unwrap her at night, but she woke about a dozen times during the night, so I've gone back to wrapping her.

[Liz]

Still wrapping here! lol. We've tried unwrapping, but it just results in the dummy being pulled out and lost, she just goes off to sleep if I wrap her She does work herself out of it by morning, so can sleep unwrapped. Will wean her off it once it gets warmer.

DS was wrapped until about 8 months.

[Laranna]

We stopped wrapping a week ago (DS was 15 weeks). DS always got his arms out regardless and a few weeks ago, he started wriggling and would end up at one side of the cot or up the other end! So, now he has been in a sleeping bag for the past week, that way I know if the blankies come off, he is still warm enough. Seems to be working as he is sleeping for longer overnight now so I'm sticking with it

[*Elle*]

my DD2 wanted to be wrapped untill she was around 5 months old, in the end I just began wrapping her a little looser each time and eventually she got use to not having it, I am thinking your DS probably wants to start sleeping without being wrapped but he may not like it straight off as he is not use to it, maybe give it a go next sleep time and see how he goes, otherwise if he doesnt like it start doing it gradually and he will get use to it.

good luck with it all, he is such a cutie

[Marlene]

Thanks everyone. Still unsure what I am going to do...and I better decide soon as he goes to bed in about an hour or so, LOL. I might try putting him to bed with arms out of the wrap and see how he goes tonight, I suppose I could always wrap him if he keeps waking up.

Thanks elle....yes he is a cutie, LOL....and cheeky already.

[visitor1]

DD1 was a fussy bub and hated being wrapped stopped around 8 weeks...the same time she began sleeping through!

DD2 was wrapped til about 15 weeks old....

[Olive]

DD was wrapped til 10 weeks then went into a sleepingbag

[Karina]

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.

[Turkish Delight]

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

[Liz]

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

[kelebek]

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

[Marlene]

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.

[luna moth]

In my time in childcare I have met lots of little babies who like to be wrapped. 12 months is the longest I've come across. I forget where I read "Don't start wrapping [if you haven't before] after 4 months" whish is fair enough because I think it can freak them out a bit if they're not used to it.

Wrap, wrap and awaaaaaaay!

[all girls]

We are still wrapping, she is starting to not like it so much though wriggling and rolling when i put her down.