Off to sleep without a dummy - How do you do it?

[zuzkah]

My ds is 12 weeks old and has been going to sleep with a dummy. After a night feeds he generally fell asleep without it. However, in the last few days he's been waking up between his feeds and wanting his dummy. I have read...yeah a book mummy ...The no cry sleep solution and it is said to try not to send a baby to sleep with a dummy. I can see the point but wonder how do you do it? Is there anyone out there actually doing it?

[No1ErmaBombeckfan]

If it lets yr ds fall asleep and wants it, is it such a bad thing?

Hasn't there also been research to show that dummies have been seen to be able to prevent SIDS??

[shelleylou]

I just took the dummy away from my child. One day i just threw it in the bin. End of it didnt seam to bother my ds at all. He had a dummy till bout 6 months old and have no problems with speach.

[zuzkah]

I am not against dummies. My concern is that he was able to fall asleep without a dummy during the night and now he wakes up and wont settle without it. Am I creating the dreaded association sleeping = sucking therefore No sucking = no sleeping?

[fludnelb]

I chucked my DD's dummy when she was about 5 or 6 months - it would fall out of her mouth when she was asleep and she would wake up but not be able to put it back herself, or suck her thumb (which is what I really wanted her to do!) After a few weeks of walking up several times a night, we went cold turkey - one night with lots of crying tbh but I went in loads to calm her down, and then after that she was fine without it.

[shelleylou]

sorry i meant no problems with sleep. I think i wrote was i wasy saying n the fone on that last bit sorry. It might take a week or two for him to get used to it.

[Floppytulips]

W've just consigned dummies to the bin at 15 weeks. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, I replaced dummy-to-sleep in the day with a bit of a rock in the buggy about a week ago, and that was fine, but she was still sucking away at night. 2 nights ago we went cold turkey altogether and did a bit of rocking, cuddling, picking up, putting down etc and she eventually went to sleep without it (first time took about an hour). She SEEMS fine now, though it's only been two days, and has developed her own dummy replacement- a weird noise that sounds like a faz machine. As soon as she starts 'faxing' I know she will go to sleep! I also read 'No Cry Sleep' and I thought it was brilliant . Good luck- I reckon just go for it.

[Floppytulips]

err, faX machine that should be! I dread to think what a faz machine is...

[flowerybeanbag]

We got rid of DS's dummy fairly recently, he's 9mo now. He wasn't having it to go to sleep in the first place, but had started waking for it in the night, more and more often, it was getting ridiculous.

So we went cold turkey, had one fairly painful night, one much less painful then that was it. Now he very rarely wakes in the night at all, and if he does, settles himself.

[caykon]

I am also interested in ways to get rid of dummies my dd nearly 2 has never had one in the day but dh from a young age gave her one to sleep, now she goes absolutely beserk ifwe try and put her to bed without it. Worse of all my ds nearly 1 is going the same way.

[zuzkah]

thanks for ur tips ladies. I think Im going cold turkey tonight. I hope that the association is not so strong yet so shouldnt be that hard, he? He was a good sleeper and now I worry I created a dummy monster who doesnt let us sleep anymore! But I still love him!