Muslin wraps - advice please?

[Moorish]

Hi ladies :wave:


DS is 5mths old and still really needs to be wrapped but he's such a hot-bod when he sleeps and I think the cotton wraps need to be ditched and replaced with muslin.
I've never used them before but I hear they come in all sorts of sizes - any suggestions as to what size I should be looking for for Isaac? His cotton wraps are all sorts of sizes however they have stretch to them whereas I don't think muslin does?

I'm going to have a look online today and see what I can find as our shops only have the teeny tiny sizes.

Thanks!

[lizzymcfizzy]

HI as far as I know the muslin come in the same size at the cotton and I've seen them at big W and target. it should still stretch like cotton, if not better. I thought they only came in one size but I could be wrong.

If you get desperate I ended up using sarongs :) nice and cool in the summer and big enough for my baby who was a fair bit older and still like to be wrapped.

[TripleTime]

I have the smart wrap's/swaddles from target, their more like a rectangle than a square. The waffle wraps from target are awesome too, J is a freakishly hot bod & doesnt over heat in a waffle.

[kiki07]

If you have a sewing machine, you can buy muslin material from spotlight and hem to the size you want.

[elleandsam]

We make our own wraps and they are fanastic. Even our houdini ant get out of them because they're so huge :)

[Electric Rodeo]

Go 120x120, I've seen them on ebay that size.

Otherwise long rectangular shaped wraps are good in the heat. I use a waffle one on DD ATM and cause it's shorter her little feet can poke out, I figure it's like us being under the doona with a leg stcking out, cools me down:laughing:

Muslin does have some stretch to it too.

[Mummy2R&K]

If you have a sewing machine, you can buy muslin material from spotlight and hem to the size you want.

:iagree:

THat's what I was going to do but DD hates her arms wrapped now and I'm making the transition to a gro bag

[Wookie1]

Depending on the size of your bub Living Textiles have a wide variety of sizes of muslin wraps including extra large. Here's there website - http://www.livingtextiles.com.au/shop/category/living-textiles-baby-view-our-collection-baby-wraps

[Gummibear1988]

Hi there

my mum made some for my aunty it was $3 a meter and she just hemmed it and that was it.

[Bambibambino]

I use the Aden & Anais ones, nice and big and a bit snazzier than the average. You can definately get them online

[Mrs Awesome]

Dont bother with any size less than 120x120cm. My DS is almost 5 months and still wrapped in muslin and anything smaller its hard to do up tight enough. The muslin wraps i have are not stretchy at all.

[Moorish]

If you have a sewing machine, you can buy muslin material from spotlight and hem to the size you want.
I'm handy with a sewing machine and could definitely whip up some hemmed wraps . . . if I had a sewing machine :(. It's on the Christmas list!! ;)


Go 120x120, I've seen them on ebay that size.

Otherwise long rectangular shaped wraps are good in the heat. I use a waffle one on DD ATM and cause it's shorter her little feet can poke out, I figure it's like us being under the doona with a leg stcking out, cools me down:laughing:

Muslin does have some stretch to it too.
Thanks - I must have only ever seen crappy muslin wraps then because the ones I looked at had no stretch lol! Also I was thinking if it was square I could put it as a diamond shape and fold the top down a bit - that would make it a bit wider. Otherwise if it were a square I can always just fold the top down by 20cm or so.
Either way sounds like that's the size I'm after!



Thank you everyone, I'm going to have a search tonight for some sites. Poor little chicken was sweating so much today (it was 30 in Hobart today!) I'll see what I can find!

[singa06]

Hi, I use cotton cot sheets!!