Not wrapping bub.

[millsmum]

Hi mums, just wandering if any of your bubs have hated being wrapped. Our 12 week old daughter screams the house down when wrapped but if we just lay her down in her bed awake she lays there till she goes to sleep, i would at least like her to be wrapped of a night because she seems to have nice long sleeps during the night when she is wrapped but getting her to sleep wrapped of a night is a real time of tears and screaming.

[One of THOSE mums!]

My Ds hated being wrapped as a baby.
So we didn't wrap. Just dressed him warm with a tight sheet up to his waist. (he also hated grobags etc).

Maybe put her to sleep with the wrap under her. Then once she is asleep wrap it on her.

[amiee]

do you think she doesnt sleep as long because she gets cold in the night? could you maybe try a sleeping bag or putting more clothes on her?

[millsmum]

It is still quite nice here regarding the weather, her day sleeps when she is not wrapped are shorter and she wakes alot easier but will lay there content drifting in and out of sleep sometimes. Of a night when wrapped she will sleep for about 5hrs straight and if she is wrapped during the day she sleeps for about 3hrs its just what we have to go through to get her to sleep wrapped. Its a catch 22- goes to sleep great when not wrapped but doesn't sleep as long or goes to sleep with alot of trauma but sleeps longer.

[2darlingboys]

Yep he hated it. & blankets
Just used wondersuits

Have you tried sleeping bag suits?

[millsmum]

I think i will go and grab a gro bag to try on Wednesday when the shops re open- but if the gro bag sizes go 0-6months and then 6-18months what size should i go, she is 3months but has not long gone into 0-3months size clothes as she was 5weeks early but is stacking it on now and is getting quiet the little chubby but just in a size smaller clothes then what her age is
For the price of them i would like to get more then 3 months out of it. I did buy one of those wrap me up things but it to was to tight and restrictive for her.

[amiee]

do you have a friend who you could borrow one of for a couple of nights? or maybe you could just go to best and less and pick one up for roughly $20 to see if she likes it first.

[Chicky Pea]

My DD was exactly the same and it was at about that age that we stopped wrapping her with her arms in and would wrap her under the arms so she could keep her arms sticking out. She hated to be restrained with her arms pinned in... sort of like DP and I, we hate beds with hospital corners...!

[Pussyfoot]

When I saw the price of a gro-bag I thought what an absolute rip off.
My 3 week old loved the swaddle until last week when he started throwing off the blankets. I now put him in a wondersuit and wrap up to the waist and there's no dramas.

[Blairysmum]

Do you wrap her with her arms in or out? My dd hated having her arms wrapped but was ok with having her body wrapped.
With gro bags and other types of sleeping bags I think it's important to get the right size not a bigger one as bub could slip down and suffocate.