Thank you all so much for your really helpful advice, and reassurance about child care! I think I'll try the gradual thing rather than going 'cold turkey', and combining it with the sleeping bag sounds like a great idea. Thanks you!!
If your DS is anything like my DD (who could get out of the tightest wraps like she was Houdini), the 'loosly' wrapping thing didn't work for us. What we did was initally, for her day sleep only, wrap her with just 1 arm out. Once she got used to that (over several days), we got her used to sleeping at night with one arm out. Once she started sleeping better (and it never took more than a sleep or 2), then it was her other arm, but still wrapped her body. Once she was used to having both arms out, for both day and night sleeps, we took the wrap away completley and haven't looked back since!
As another poster said - daycare carers will happily do what you ask to keep bubs in as much of your routine and comfort as possible.
My DS2 has just started this week (2 days a week also) and is still loosely wrapped. My personal opinion on your scenario is dont try and unwrap before he starts care, so he has that familiarity and sleep association whilst he is adjusting. Leave it for a month after he has started and work from there.
My DS loves it - my DS1 did also and was wrapped until 11 months, my DD was around 6 months. As long as he is safe, there is no rush
Georgia loves being wrapped and cannot stay asleep without it but she was getting harder and harder to wrap, so I ended up getting her a woombie - google it to see what its about. You just zip bubs into it and they can put there arms and legs where ever they like. I tried a sleeping bag with georgia too and she hated it. seriously the woombie takes two seconds.
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