How to transition from swaddle to sleeping with arms out

I’m in a similar situation, but have been using the love to dream swaddle with his arm’s up. They do a transitional bag which you can take one arm out at a time, but he is 2lb too small for it as was a premie baby. So need other ideas.

Not much advice but I swaddled my boy from birth to 8 weeks old. We used traditional swaddle blanket and he just kept getting his arms out as he got bigger. So we decided to go cold turkey and use sleeping bag with arms out.
First few nights was tough as he would wake up and move around alot but he got used to it. Its just all about perseverance unfortunately x

I follow Alexandra Teasdale on Instagram who seemed to have some good advice for this. I didn't end up needing it because my little girl hated being swaddled, but I had pinned it before in case I needed it. I hope this helps!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwVilT4IMKm/?igsh=MWwxZ3JtdHIwcnV4aA==

When I had to take my lo out of a swaddle we were away from home. At home she's in a next to me, at my parents she was in a very snug pram bassinet. I think having her in this that was very snug and almost kept her arms in was a good stepping stone as when we got home I just kept her with her arms out no problem. Don't know if it actually helped but might be worth a shot

Thank you all for replying.

I'll definitely give Alexandra a watch, thank you.

We went from arms in to arms out so maybe I need to have 1 arm out and see how that goes for a night. Otherwise I guess I'll just have to go cold turkey and have a few more sleepless nights!

Thank you all for taking the time to reply x

Hi, I’ve been thinking about how to transition my LG too as she’s always slept with a swaddle sleep bag and I read you can do 1 arm out for 5 nights, then the other arm out for a few nights and that should help transition them. Another way could be a weighted sleeping suit, like the Magic Merlin one which is designed for transitioning. I tried a few nights with one arm out and both arms out but her sleep was definitely much more disrupted and felt like her arms were getting cold.

I'm going to try just one arm out tonight and see how we get on. I'll also look into the magic merlin sleepsuit.

I've just been laid in bed with my little one whilst he napped after his last feed, I've been hit in the face so many times, his arms have a life of their own :)

We did one arm out and swapped over each night for quite a while. The last couple of nights she’s had both arms out and it has been fine.