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@birdofafeather: yeah I cut out the swaddle and feeding to sleep all at once. Now I feed her about 30'mins before she goes to sleep, change her and put her in her sleep sack. Rock for a minute to sing a song and then lay her in her crib.

I found that too - it was hard to find a good time to train, since we are always on the go with DD1 and she tags along. But she was much more adaptable than I anticipated!

Does she go to sleep initially at bedtime OK? And then wakes up because her arms are flailing?

@birdofafeather: it's so hard, especially when you're solo parenting. I would give it a try one night and see how it goes. Both my girls caught on really quickly so you would know within a day or two if she has readjusted or if it would be better to wait until you get back from camping ?

Eta: how many naps a day does she have? J just recently dropped to 2 naps so we loosely follow the 2-3-4 sched...it makes it a lot easier knowing when she is going to be tired and ready to nap.

Have you introduced a lovey? We started putting one in the crib with DS when he was 4 months old and out of the swaddle. He ignored it for the most part for several weeks but then started talking to it and throwing it around and once he was teething, he started chewing on its ear. It became a self-soothing thing and he still chews on his lovey for a few minutes before falling asleep at 20 months.

Also, we sleeptrained with CIO and 6 months is supposed to be a good time to do it, so perhaps its time?

My husband recently went on a week long business trip and I have a 3 year old and a 4 month old. 3 year old demands that I stay in her room until she falls asleep. So.... We did CIO with the baby before DH left. Now Baby can fall asleep on her own....but we do still swaddle one arm. Maybe try the Merlin sleep suit? I never tried it but isn't it supposed to restrict their arm movement a bit without being a full on swaddle? We actually swaddled our oldest girl until she was over a year old! She could get out of it easily in 10 minutes but it serves it's purpose of keeping her arms still and restricted for the crucial first minutes when she was first trying to fall asleep for the first time.

In the same boat with my 4 month old and 2.5 yo, except baby hasn't rolled yet so she is still swaddled. And she does go to sleep ok, but t takes a long time if nursing to sleep or rocking and bouncing to sleep. And then the toddler comes in and is loud and wakes her and I get so so mad even she's just being a toddler who was ignored for half an hour.

I get around it at bedtime by putting the toddler down first, then getting the baby to sleep after, and that's working ok for now. But naps are hard. And she won't really nap on the go much anymore, there is just too much exciting stuff to look at. Not sure where to go from here.

Also it seems for my kids this age is a regression time. I think it's separation anxiety. Not sure if we'll do any kind of sleep training but just wanted to throw that out there!