Slipping under the blanket...

Hi all

My son is constantly slipping under the blanket and sheet in his basinette. When I go to get him up it looks like there is no baby there! He can be completely hidden from view under the blanket. He also is quite clever at lifting his arms up so that his wrap is over his face! Any ideas on how to stop this? Don't want him suffocating or anything.

Thanks
Amanda

Thanks for that. I do put him with his feet right at the end of the basinette, but he just bends his knees! We have stretchy wraps too - which I think is the problem - cause he can just stretch them up over his face! It is kinda freaky, although he never seems to bothered by it! I even have a safety sleep, but my husband tried to put that on him last night, and when I got him up early this morning for a feed, he had that over his face! That was very scary...

We never had a problem with Jack moving so not sure how useful this suggestion is but what about those sleeping bags that are stitched to the sheet, you could still put blankets over him if you want but he won't move too much. Or could you safety pin the wrap to the safety sleep - once you solve the wrap-over-the-face issue?

if all the other suggestions don't work.......get him a sleepsack....charli had a couple and they were great!

I would try a safety sleep, we started putting Ella in one when she kept wiggling up to the top of bassinet and it stopped her (until she got older and figured out how to undo the velco, then we ditched it).

Thanks for the ideas guys Briar is 21 weeks old and this is the only issue I have with her at the moment. (Touch Wood)
I will give them a go cheers

For the hands-stealing-dummy trick, we just put Chloe in mittens every time she goes to bed, so she can't pull out her dummy or suck her hands, now that we have stopped wrapping her. Seems to work really well for us, because she likes to sleep with her hands up by her face and she gets cold hands at night without her mittens anyway.

I doubt very much anything would happen, mittens are tiny... Cooper is forever smothering himself with his muzzie..

Hi Mandz. I was going to do the same as Mel.. say maybe a Peke Moe! ;)
It sounds like you've got a wriggler.. both my boys were like that. With Reef , we hadn't created the Peke Moe and it was the same, I would go in and think there was no baby in the cot!!! And LUCKILY he was always fine, infact cosy as!!!
I always had him at the foot of the cot also, but he would then go sideways too... we all survived!
With Tyde I haven't had the same problem as he's in his peke moe and besides putting his arm over his face when small (they do this as they seem to love the cosiness of the fabric on their face) there's no way they can pull the peke moe right up over them and get lost. They move their hands back and forth over their face all the time...
I think you sound like you're doing it all right... the safetsleep is definitely an option.. I never used one as I didn't really want to 'restrict' my babies movement.. I wrapped/swaddled and when Tyde started getting out of that then we moved onto the Peke Moe. My sister has used the Peke Moe for night sleeps since birth on her boy, but wraps during the day as he seems to need the 'restriction' to sleep better in the day... he does long night sleeps in his Peke Moe.
Are you able to get a really good 'tight' tuck in of a sheet over him being wrapped?? this might help... I always found the stretchy wraps best (wrapping with hands down at each side of the baby).
Good luck! :)

Hi guys

Am definitely wrapping him tightly with his arms by his side, but he manages to get them up to his face nonetheless when he wants to! I do tuck the sheet and his blanket quite tightly over him but it doesn't seem to matter. The safety sleep seems to be working quite well and he in fact appears to sleep so much better with it than without - so loathe to give it up just yet. Will probably move to the Pekemoe when he gets a bit bigger and less reliant on the safety sleep. He hasn't yet suffocated, so guess he will be alright - frightening still to look and see no baby!

Thanks for the advice, as always much appreciated.