DD is 20 weeks and has had a dummy to go to sleep since she was a week or so old.
She sleeps pretty well at night, but from about 4am onwards starts stirring and needs the dummy putting back in to fall back to sleep. I am up and down like a yo-yo and exhausted as I then don't sleep properly as I'm listening out for her. If I leave her, she wakes up fully. During the day if we are out in the pram, she'll put her hand in her mouth and settle herself when the dummy falls out, but she doesn't do it at night!
I am going to start trying a bit of self-soothing during her daytime naps this week as up until now she's always had a dummy and been cuddled to sleep so I understand why she's finding it hard! Definitely no CC or CIO, am aiming to put her down drowsy and do a gradual retreat and see what happens. It may be that she's not ready yet in which case I'll just buy more coffee ;) Any advice from you lovely lot? x
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Squaffle · 19/08/2016 19:22
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