DS is getting to the stage where he doesn't want to be wrapped anymore, but I don't know how to get rid of it. He is still sleeping with a dummy, so if I don't wrap him, he pulls out the dummy & cries - he won't sleep. I'm not prepared to just let him cry, but he gets so upset when he's not wrapped - but if I do wrap, he gets his arms out anyway & pulls out his dummy/rolls over & cries.
Help!!
PS - I know I posted about this a month ago & then decided just to leave it for a while - but today he's really been getting frustrated (and even rolling over fully wrapped - without removing his arms - but still crying)
Ah Ezz, here we are again! I swear our boys conspire in secret against us!
I'm going through the exact same thing right now - decided to go cold turkey on the wrap. DS wasn't pulling his dummy out or not sleeping, it's just that he's getting way too mobile for it and it's just becoming a pain.
We're up to day 2 now, nights are fine, days are not. He's taking up to 40 mins to go to sleep. i'm not having to go in there, he's eventually putting himself to sleep but it's seriously doing my head in. ONce asleep, he's only averaging about 40 mins to an hour of acutal sleep.
Promised myself I'd give it a week but ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
Not sure if I've posted in your threads previously but have you tried gradually removing the wrap by swaddling with one arm free for a few days, then both arms free? I then moved to a sleeping bag. He was only 6 weeks old though, and never had a dummy so I can't offer any ideas there either, sorry...
OMG!!!! I so know what you're talking about! he's only just started rolling but I'm sure it won't be long until the problem becomes more than just an arm getting out and pulling out the dummy but not getting it back in! I tried wrapping him looser and then with one arm out but he just gets agro and wont' sleep, so I'm using a cot sheet still... for now I'll keep doing it but every now and then I freak out at the thought I'll still be wrapping him when he starts school... and then I pull myself together and tell myself to stop being ridiculous!
I do know a friend of a friend who is still wrapping her 2 y.o.!! But she is quite happy being wrapped (still won't sleep without it.
Willow - what is he doing for the 40 mins before he falls asleep? Is he grizzling or just rolling around?? Every time I have tried not wrapping Calvin, he just cries unless I'm in there patting him.
Curly - I did try the one-arm thing - but the only time he actually went to sleep was when I stayed in there patting him
Teaching to sleep without a wrap?
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