Weaning from wrap

DD has been wrapped ever since birth for all her sleeps. She will not sleep without it. I'm trying to wean her off but she just can't do it, the last few nights I've had to get up twice just to re wrap her and most times I have to feed her to get her back to sleep aswell.
I've tried the one arm out but she gets all worked up and over tired so I give up and wrap her arm, and then most of the time she won't go to sleep case she's so worked up.
I can leave her to CIA for a bit but I don't like to leave her too long caus eI feel bad for her. LIke it doens't bother me that shes crying but I wonder if it anoys her that she's crying. IYKWIM.

Anyone got any suggestions?? She has a dummy and a sleep toy. So I can't really try and get her to have another sleep thing. 

Didn't think to look there. Good points though. She's in a safety sleep I thought about the sleeping bag with the swaddle over it but she started rolling on to her tummy and couldn't get back So I didn't want to risk not haveign her int he safety sleep. Would it be too much having her swaddled in a sleeping bag and in the safety sleep aswell??

I just ended up making the boy go 'cold turkey'. I was really worried about it, because he was so dependent on wrapping to the point that he preferred to be wrapped a lot of the time when he was just relaxing not sleeping. So we started with his night sleep as he's such a good sleeper at night and his day naps have been so hit and miss lately. On his first night he tried really hard to settle, but started to cry after about 20mins so I went in, gave him a hug, then placed him back in the cot and held his right arm at his side whilst I stroked his left arm IYKWIM. Once he was all chilled out, I left him to settle and he was fine. Second night he settled by himself, third night I had to go in twice, but since then he's gone down like a pro.

The only side effect to not being wrapped is that he's waking up a lot earlier. Sometimes at 5.30am *yawn* Still goes to bed at 6.30pm though

Good luck

p.s It's soooooo much easier when we're out and about with his naps now he's not swaddled

I have, at one stage, had DS swaddled, in a sleeping bag and under a safety sleep. I just made sure that he wasn't too hot and that everything didn't ruck up and he was fine.

I still wrap DS at times, like now when he is teething. When I first put him in a sleeping bag I left both his arms unwrapped but still swaddled his lower body so that his legs didn't flail about too. I would give him 20 minutes to settle (I'd go into him however many times was necessary in this time) and if was still awake after this I would wrap him. Also if he got very distressed I would wrap him.

Otherwise I would suggest keeping her wrapped and then try again in a couple of weeks. And repeat until she is OK in the sleeping bag. The way I look at with J is that the only issue with swaddling him as he gets bigger is that I need bigger wraps so I am happy to let him be swaddled for a bit longer yet if that is what he needs.

Good luck

My DD was always swaddled, she would freak out if I tried putting her to bed without being wrapped. I started trying to wean her at about 7 months but it was a no go so went back to wrapping her then a week later, she started wriggling her left arm out so I decided I'd just wrap her with that arm left out for a few days, which went well. Then one day she miraculously went to bed without a fuss with both arms out. So she pretty much decided when she wanted to be weaned from it on her own. It's been about 3 weeks now of not being swaddled and she is sleeping sooooooo much better! (she now takes her favourite toy to bed with her and is in the safe-t-sleep)

hehe I read about weaning at night too but never really thought about it and was scared she wouldn't sleep and would be up all night!!

If it's really a no go then like Lisa's girl, maybe just leave it for a while...

I got her to sleep last night at 7pm with both arms out and then aagin after her 10pm feed. But she woke herself up at 2.30 and we were up for an hour tyring to get her back to sleep. In the end I had to wrap her back up and feed her to sleep.

The reason I want to wean her is cause she keeps getting out no matter how tight I or DH does it she still gets out. She clearly still needs to be swaddled to get herself to sleep. EVen with one arm out in the day she lies there and plays with her dummy and grizzles.

I was having a nightmare weaning DS - he wouldn't have a bar of having one arm out, let alone 2. The turning point came 2 weeks ago when I bought a Peke Moe sleeping bag - he transitioned to this with no issues and he learnt to move his arms around in his sleep (don't ask me why it's different to having his arms out, but not covered!! ).

Then 3 days ago I tried to put him down for a nap without the Peke Moe - it didn't work, but I noticed he was grabbing at his blankets and playing with his hand which was keeping him awake. The next nap I put socks on his hands so he couldn't use them and he went straight to sleep! That was 3 days ago and he's now sleeping day and all night long with his little socky hands (it's very cute!). So possibly try covering his hands and see if that prevents the temptation to play.... worth a shot!

We have a peke moe here too.....it works for us.