Give me positive stories of removing dummies in toddler to improve night sleep

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Just that really

Dummy fairy coming very soon with an amazing present.........trying this to limit my son being awake for hours every night.....please give me some hope?!

How old is your ds? How is the dummy stopping him sleep?

Hey I stopped my daughter from having a dummy at 2 years... I told her it was for babies and she now a big girl. I made her put it in the bin, and I got her a cuddly rabbit and told her she can have this instead at night times. Kept reinforcing positive praise. She did ask for it about a week then I had to explain it to her. And she was fine. Bye my daughter was hooked completely on the dummy at night. She would have it in her mouth the whole night!

I would love to know some positive stories as well. DS is just turned 2 and has 3 dummies at night (to reduce the amount that gets knocked out of the cot). If he can't find just 1 of them at night then he starts screaming for attention and won't got back to sleep.

I waited til my son had all his teeth before taking his dummy away , so probably about 2.5 years old .

One night I snipped the top of the dummy off and handed it to him, he put it in his mouth and sucked it , handed it back to me and said it was broke, and he never asked for it again.

I laughed at my son when he put it in to make him shy 😳

Have just spoken to toddler sleep consultant and she's suggesting that he's awake for so Long at night because the sucking motion is just not doing it for him anymore and without it he'll sleep much deeper for longer

Sorry he's 2.5

I don’t have any advice op, I’m in a similar situation myself but I definitely won’t be taking the advice to laugh at him, that’s awful. I’d hate to make my child feel embarrassed about something that is normal!

A year ago, when DS was 2.5, we went on holiday to France. He had a little inflatable Thomas the tank engine bed and was very excited. Whilst travelling, we somehow lost his dummy (eventually found in the end pocket of a holdall, months later!). I don't know if it was the novelty of the new setting and bed, or whether he was just ready for it, but he never wanted a dummy again after that first night.

We removed my daughter's dummy just before her 3rd birthday. Her sleep was OK but she wanted her dummy all the time during the day and I felt it was affecting her speech . We'd tried reducing it but to no avail so decided to go cold turkey. One day all the dummies disappeared after a visit from the dummy fairy. The first few days she asked for the dummy a lot. The first 2 or 3 nights weren't great. She woke up crying a few times begging for the dummy. It broke my heart but I was determined to see it through. I just sat with her stroking her hair explaining the dummies were gone but she'd be fine. After day 3 she was absolutely fine! Best thing I've done!

Thanks for your replies

I'm only really asking if by taking away the dummy at night it improved their sleep? I suppose this question could only apply to the parents of children who weren't "sleep through the nighters" like mine 😡

We are awake for 2-3 hours a night (not upset just can't get back to sleep) hence why I'm going to remove the dummy.....he doesn't have it at any other time
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