Safe T Sleep

We wrapped Isla until she was 10 months old, and started using safety sleep as well when she moved into cot at 3 months old. Now we just use the safety sleep. Its great! I dont have 'real' ones tho,...Mum made ours!

I don't think all babies like being swaddled up - Gina hated it. If you are using both, you would have to swaddle her up first and then use the safety strap on top.

Rhyley liked be wrapped but my other son hated it and would always pull his hands out - funny thing is Josh is still like it hes all over the place and his sheets never stay in one place. LOL

Youcan wrap them then put them in the saftey sleep - i only started using the safe-t-sleep when Rhyley went into a cot so he was a little older and didn't like to be wrapped tightly anymore.

We are wrapping Daniel still and don't bother with a safety sleep. It's actually annoying because when you undo it it scares him every time, he hates the sound of the huge velcro undoing. I don't know if we will even bother using it or not when he gets a bit older

You ask great questions lilfatty! Just the things that I need to know too!!! We are planning on wrapping bubs when he arrives, and I have been told that when they are in the bassinet that wrapping on its own is fine. We have got a safety sleep which we will use as well as wrapping as soon as we move him into the cot.

Our antenatal lady made a good poin - she said that if you wrap and then put bassinette blankets quite tight over them you get the same result. Then you look at the safety sleep for in the cot... (though I guess the same idea with the wrapping and blankets would work, if they liked being wrapped...

This is what we are planning on trying

The other thing you can, and should do for safe sleep is make the bed up at the foot of the cot or basinette, so that baby's feet are at the foot of the bed. that way, yes they can move up and might get a bit cold, but they won't be able to move any further down under the covers. (have just had education session with the latest safe sleep recommendations). And yep, newborns move an amazing amount, some might stay still during sleep but others just move around sooo much even when wrapped, you go over and they've wriggled so much they're outta their wrap, have their hands out and have pushed themselves up with their feet and have their gowns down off their shoulders in a matter of minutes! lol they are cheeky

Our oldest loved being wrapped and loved the safety sleep , our next hated being restricted, she slept far better when we didn't use a wrap or the safety sleep, we didn't know to make the bed at the foot of the bed when ihad them, but we did short-sheet the bed so that the sheets stopped her from going down any further, and where i folded them over at the top, i put a safety pin at the edge either side that pinned it to the blankets so that it couldn't be pulled down.

Edited by mum2paris

If you stick them in one of those sleeping bag things, do you need to use blankets as well?