Weaning from wrapping & dummy

I have a 5 month old who is waking about 6 times a night between 7pm and 5am. She is fully wrapped and uses a dummy. As a bit of history, she had bad colic and reflux as a NB and is on losec. I found the dummy helped with her reflux but is now becoming problematic.

A few months ago she was waking once or twice a night but now she is waking every 1.5-2hrs and is difficult to settle upon waking. She is also up for the day at 5am as I can't leave her to cry because of her sister sleeping next door. Needless to say I'm exhausted! We've increased her Losec but it's not made much difference.

I think she needs weaning off the wrap and or dummy but I'm unsure hat o start with. Seems cruel to take both away at the same time. However the problem is she can't put the dummy back in when wrapped, nor can she self settle without the dummy if wrapped. Has anyone got any tips on where to begin?? TIA!

As a contrast DS could help himself to a dummy easily by 5 months so you could always give it a shot to see if she can as well. My suggestion would be to unwrap her arms which would let her put her own dummy back but still give the security of being wrapped. Each to their own though. Also Hopes i am not stalking you but the picture of J crying after you took his wrap away you mean mean mummy might be the best picture i ever saw come up in my side bar thingy on facebook.

We unwrapped one arm & had the dummy on the Nuk chain, means it makes a noise so they can hear if they're in the region of the dummy. So best of both worlds.

Put the dummy on the chain during the day so she learns to put it back herself & then she'll be able to do it in her sleep.

Thanks for the tips. I think I'm going to focus on weaning from the wrap first, so she can learn to self soothe and put the dummy back in herself. I've got some sleeping bags so will look to moving her into one of them. I've started unwrapping one arm for day sleeps and that's been fairly ok.

Clover, the sleep store (yes I've been asking everyone for advice!)suggested to start keeping one arm out as a way to wean from wrapping, rather than going cold turkey. it's working well during the day. haven't been brave enough to try it at night yet!

I think I wrote the exact same post about 6 months ago!

The thing that worked for us was to tie her dummy to a hankie - it was much easier for DD to find it in the cot in the dark. I showed it to her first, and handed it to her, and within 5 min she got it.

So then she went out of the wrap and into a sleeping bag. Unfortunately she had to go into the safety sleep as she moves around so much that she gets all worked up and won't settle.

Yeah I did. My DS1 was a reflux baby and had a dummy AND was swaddled til 1yo lol but we went throught the unsettled stage at around 7mo. He slept better when wrapped so we just figured he'd have to self-settle without the dummy if he lost it during the night. Have you tried just going in and patting her to help her resettle?? We did that, just giving him abit of a jiggle til he crashed out again. Soon as he stopped crying we stopped jiggling. He ended up sleeping through without his dummy fairly quickly!

As for your 3yo you may find she quickly learns to sleep through any crying. My 2 have pretty much always shared a room and DS1 was fine sleeping through DS2s wailing