I’ve bitten the bullet
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Topic: I’ve bitten the bullet
Posted By: LockieandLiam
Subject: I’ve bitten the bullet
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 11:20am
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okay yip my son is nearly 8 months old so I have finally taken the step to stop wrapping him, well only today so we will see how things go. Admittedly he was very tired as we had swimming this morning, then he had settled after 15 mins so pretty pleased with that. Will be interesting to see what happens with his next sleep and of course how long he sleeps for. For about the last couple of weeks have just had his arms inside his safety sleep. Fingers crossed. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 11:24am
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i'll be very interested to see how this goes as my son is 11 months old and still needs to be wrapped to go to sleep. good luck and i hope your sleeps really well without his wrappings. ------------- |
Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 11:45am
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I have just stop wraping madison since yesterday and all has gone well so far Good luck http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 12:17pm
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If it doesn't work, you can "wean" them off it by wrapping them loosely. Both my girls were unwrapped by 8mos so I expect it will go fine. -------------  |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 1:07pm
I stopped wrapping Hannah when she was about 9-10 months. I started putting her in a sleepsack with her arms inside and she was happy with that. Was ages before she'd go to sleep with her arms in the sleeves, but she is fine about it now. Good luck  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 1:13pm
I stopped wrapping Maya about 7-8 mths I think, just had her in the safety sleep with her arms out. Around the same time I gave her Fussy Bubba to have in the cot as a comfort and am still kicking myself for that 2 1/2 years later 
I did have to safety pin the safety sleep once I stopped wrapping her as she would get it undone and stand up in the cot. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 1:20pm
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I can't remember when we stopped wrapping Andrew but I do know he went into a "sleeping bag" type thing that my mum made him after that and he loved sleeping in that so we had to get another one for daycare. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Deez
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 1:58pm
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Oh man i have already stopped wrapping Lycan. I only wrap him on really cold nights now, dont think he notices the difference really he sleeps well either way. -------------  
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 2:26pm
| i still wrap taine, but about ten seonds after I put him down, he wriggles out and sleeps face down bum up most nights. I will still wrap him for a while - cause he looks cute. |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 2:27pm
| Ooops I didnt ever really wrap Addison, maybe for the first week or so, by the time she went into her cot at 2 months she was well and truely 'unwrapped' I wonder if it makes that much difference? we havent had a problem with her sleeping and i presume that is the only reason you would wrap them right? |
Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 3:12pm
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Some babies don't like to be wrapped but Lachlan seems to like it so we have continued doing it. He has got out the occasional time but I can count that on one hand so wasn't in any hurry to try without and now the months have just ticked on by so thought I should try something.
Well his last sleep was just over two hours so it can't have made much difference it didn't even seem to take him that long to settle. I have just put him down again now and can't seem to hear anything from his room, so will check on him shortly. Might leave the nighttime wrapping for a couple of weeks and see how the daytimes go for now. Ellen - did you try Madison last night or just during the day? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 10:04pm
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no i went cold turkey with her lol and shes been fine tonight and yesterday the only thing is now thats shes got her hands back she likes taking her dummy out and trys to put it back in so its been a few extra times going in and puting her dummy in her mouth. http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 11:08am
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Okay well he didn't settle with his hands out for is last sleep yesterday or first one this morning (so both times put his hands back inside his safety sleep and straight out to it), but I have just put him down now and what do you know we have success.
Now I usually put him down when he does the eye rub thing and yawns but both these times we have had success he's been grizzly along with it. Do you think perhaps I am putting him down too soon or just coincidence? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 5:29pm
| Piper never sleeps properly unless she is wrapped |
Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 11:48am
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we are back to square one as madison is not well with a cold and flatly refused to go down last night for some reason and after about half and hour i wraped her and she went down staight away and slept like that all night till 6.30am this morning and she wouldn't go down again this morning so i wraped her after about 30 minutes and she went to sleep fine after that so after 2 days of her not being wraped she is now a wraped baby lol we will get there. http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 1:24pm
| out of curiosity, why don't you want her wrapped? i know for us I would prefer not to wrap Taine in summer as he a rather moist child and sweats like a trooper. Wrapping him wil probably give him heat rash. |
Posted By: luna
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 1:46pm
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I haven't really wrapped Amelia at all. She's always slept well, and even when in hospital, the nurses would leave at least 1 arm out, as she hated being totally wrapped. Must take after me - I used to wriggle out all the time! ------------- Selina http://lilypie.com"> 
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