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[BelleMH]

Hello! Please help me!!!!!! :)
I am really needing some advice on how to settle my 6 month DS without wrapping!
Since birth I have wrapped him and used a dummy. He settles reasonably well, but due to the extremely hot weather and advice that you should no longer wrap them once they start to roll, I want to stop the wrap! (I currently use the thing that comes up on his sides to stop him rolling)
I tried tonight (and succeeded after 30mins once I gently held his hands down!!!!) but his hands go straight to his mouth and pull that dummy out! :rolleyes: Then this leads to lots of cries etc etc. After I had settled him unwrapped he woke up after 30 mins and would not have a bar of going back to sleep or even be consoled! :crying:. I ended up picking him up, letting him chill out, then I wrapped him, put him to bed and he went straight to sleep!

He also wakes 2 to 5 times a night and usually doesn't settle without a feed. He is on solids - loves them - We have a bedtime routine - He is teething and I give him gel and panadol. Any advice for problem number 2 is also welcome!!!! ;)

Thanks!!!!

[mumma bear]

Wraping isn't a prob. I wraped my DD1 until she was 10 months old because she loved to fall asleep that way. She was rolling from about 4.5 months and we never had a problem. Eventually when we stopped wraping it was because she was fighting her way out before calmly falling asleep and staying asleep so then it was time to move to a sleeping bag.

I am a firm believer in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' so i think you should keep wraping and let bub decide when to stop being wraped and don't worry you will know when he wants you to stop and don't let what others say effect your instincts. He likes being wraped, so keep it up.

Our parenting advice line advises is is 'NORMAL' for bub to wake twice per night at 6 months old for a feed, so keep feeding him if you think he is hungry. Also as far as solids go they are not really absorbing it as food until they are a little older.

[BelleMH]

Thanks Mumma Bear! I feel as though I just got a reality check!
I guess things are working if he goes to sleep being wrapped and he falls back asleep straight after his night feeds.
I think I may have been caught up in "other peoples" stories, when I should have been looking at the real story - my little man is happy, sleeping, feeding and acting like a little baby should! :yes:

[UmmInayah]

If you're worried about the heat and that's why you want to stop wrapping, you could try what a lot of other mums do where you wrap but you slowly "wean" them. So, you would take one arm out for a few sleeps and then the other, so you're only wrapping his legs and then eventually stop that too.

I found my DD was okay when I stopped wrapping her. I used a sleeping bag as the new sleep association so there was something to replace the wrapping. She is still in a sleeping bag :)

I also stopped at 6 months because I was told that around that age they want to find their own way to be comfortable. I found after I stopped wrapping her she loved to rub her head to sleep.

Good luck

[lizzymcfizzy]

have you tried a sarong? they are cooler in the warm weather :)

[Herchy]

Good luck. I have no advice on teh wrapping etc... just do what you thinks is right, and what works:)
DS was a terrible sleeper up unil 4 months of 3.5 months of age, when he started rolling and decided to sleep on his belly. A few weeks of sleepless nights for us, but now he's pretty good most of the time.

DS is 7.5 months old, teething, on solids etc, and also waking quite a bit at night, so it may not be that ur bub isnt wrapped or anything, just his age and things he is going through.

Good luck:)

[BelleMH]

Thanks girls! A sarong is a wonderful idea and I will use one whilst slowly weaning him off the wrapping. I just had a look at him and he has his right arm slung out across the mattress! It's just the hands going to straight to the dummy that is the real problem - but we will see how we go. Thanks again :)

[MrsTiggyWinkle]

I have exactly this problem, haven't found a full solution yet but partial...

DD is 5 months old now and rolling. I use the Angel wrap (instructions at www.karitane.com.au (http://www.karitane.com.au)), but I only wrap her left arm, and i do that loosely so that if she rolls over she can push herself up but its not quite free enough to play with her dummy.

For the right arm I have a little comfort toy, a bunny/blanket thing, that I tuck over her right shoulder to keep that hand busy.

And for the heat, I have modified the angel wrap so that I bring it over her left shoulder, tuck under her bum, then instead of bringing it across her body I tuck it under her bum again (if that doesn't make sense check out the instrucions on Karitane's website). Then for the right side I bring the fabric under her arm and across her body. That means the bulk of the fabric is underneath (and absorbent), and only one layer of fabric on top. I hope that makes sense!!

Sometimes if she is wired I put her down, then put a finger in each hand until she stops flapping, it seems to calm her down.

I still haven't worked out how to stop wrapping the second arm, but I figure she's wrapped but mobile so will keep doing this for a while...
Cheers,
Anna.