Unswaddling with a dummy

After a week of having to replace DS's dummy about 5 times a night I have decided to start wrapping him with one arm out so he can learn to suck his thumb.

Have had a go for two sleeps and all he does is pull the dummy out with his free hand.

I am hoping you can share any tips you have if you have done this before...?

I want to give this a try first before getting rid of the dummy completely.

Any advice welcomed

Thanks for asking this q.  Will be interested in your replies.  We have a 9 mth old who still sleeps swaddled.  She will sleep very occasionally not wrapped if very tired.  Otherwise she flings her toys and dummy around the cot and has a great old time (except not much sleep).  Is nice and convenient for me to keep wrapping etc knowing she will sleep, but I have to draw the line somewhere. 

we took E out of the wrap i think about 5-6 months and still was replacing the dummy for 1-2 months after that..made little difference and he wouldn't suck his thumb and still has a dummy(only in bed) at 21 months:(

LOL Callum goes to bed with 3 dummies now too

Callum had a dummy from birth and was swaddled till he was 6.5 months. Up until our recent trip home he only needed the dummy when he first went to bed and after that he would self settle. So when we stopped swaddling he would go to bed in his sleeping bag, arms out, and kind of just ignore the dummy although there was a wee bit of going back in to replace it a couple of times in the beginning. When he was overtired we would sometimes have to gently hold his arms down till he went to sleep.

Actually thinking about it now, we had more probs with him spitting the dummy out on purpose and then wondering where it had gone And that was before he could put it back in (he soon learnt lol).

It might seem like forever at the moment but he'll probably realise it's better not to pull the dummy out fairly soon (or learn how to get it back in).

How old is your DS?

Jake plays with his and wont go to sleep, he does wake at night and will want it to go back to sleep..

We still swaddle him but loosely so he doesnt play with his toys and dummy.. if he isnt very tired he will get out of the wrap and play until he is tired.

I know we should stop it but its just convenient right now...

Thanks everyone - CarrieMumToBe how long did it take for him to learn to put the dummy in - and did he have trouble finding it if he dropped it?

Also he rubs his face lots - DS seems to drop the dummy and cant find it so rubs his face and keeps himself awake.

RubyG, Daniel has been putting his dummy back in himself for about 4 weeks now, he is 6 months old.
We just kept handing it to him and let him fiddle around with it until he got it in himself. Not if he was really upset though, then I'll just pop it in myself.
Sometimes in the night he'll knock it too far away from him with all his wriggling and cry out for it but thats only a few times a week now. A few months ago I was getting up 5-6 times a night to replace his dummy but now thats hardly ever. Not that its all plain sailing though, we have a new problem...we just got back from overseas and he's waking up at 4:30am and not going back to sleep!

I found it really hard with our baby, I used https://www.freestufffrenzy.com/free-nuk-pacifier/ and he wouldn't put it down.