Getting swaddled baby used to Grobag

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At the moment my dd sleeps wrapped in a large bamboo muslin (not really properly swaddled, just enough to stop her startling herself or rubbing her face in her sleep) with a cellular blanket on top, but she sometimes wakes up now the weather is cold because she kicks the blanket off. I've got a 2.5 tog gro bag but as she is used to being wrapped in the muslin I'm concerned she will flail her arms about and wake herself up! Is it ok to wrap the muslin around her outside the grobag or is this a total no no? Would like her in a gro bag before it gets really cold but unsure how to transition because she sleeps so well. Any ideas?

Have you tried it yet? My dd just went straight into a bag from being swaddled at 2 months. She did sometimes startle herself but stays sleepy & goes back to sleep.
How old is your dd?

No have been nervous to try! She's 3 months. I might just give it a whirl tonight, dp is off work tomorrow so will have help if she doesn't sleep very well.

Go for it...you never know, it might just go smoothly!
Let me know how u get on ;)

We did swaddle outside Grobag for a bit, then swaddle under the arms outside Grobag, then finally no swaddle. Worked OK but took a week or so - DD loved her swaddle! Watch temperature obviously no vest while double layering outside

Tried wrapping the muslin outside the grobag last night and it worked well, she just woke once for a feed which is fairly usual. May go wild and try an arm out tonight.

Should have said we used a 1 tog Grobag while doing this

This is something I agonised about just about a year ago, I saw your post and you brought back happy memories of my swaddled son with 1 arm hanging out!

We tried to break him in gently to sleeping in a sleeping bag for sleeps during the day and he hated it. Then one night my DH persuaded me to pop him in the sleeping bag for the night, he slept just as he would have done being swaddled, first night. Seems he wasn't that bothered about being swaddled.

Hope you have a similar experience, this in one of the things that sticks in my mind that I can't believe I got so anxious about looking back now.

My ds is terrible for flailing arms and legs and we have to gently hold him down till he completely relaxes, he was tucked right in in his Moses basket till 12wks I then just put him in his gro bag straight in to cot and he slept fine, think sometimes we don't give them enough credit, my experience just do it!

Tried one arm out a couple of nights ago and she woke up at 1am when she usually sleeps through or wakes once at about 4am. So I fed her and put her back to bed with both arms in and she slept through til 7. Will try again but it's hard to muster the enthusiasm when it means potentially less sleep! She is in a Sleepyhead pod but will outgrow it fairly soon and then I won't be able to tuck the blanket around her the way I do now, so she'll need to be in a sleeping bag then.