She's nearly 3, and has a dummy for night time only. The dentist has pointed out that it is affecting her teeth and recommended that I take it away ASAP.
The problem is, even with the dummy she's a bit of a crap sleeper, I dread to think what will happen when I take it away. She's not too bad at going to sleep (though the past couple of weeks we've had tears at bedtime) but she wakes several times in the night and relies on the dummy to get back off, if she can't find it then she wakes us up. She also usually wants to come in our bed if she wakes in the night, so then we have tears.
I can't realistically have her in my bed long term- I need my alone time in the evenings (I'm autistic) and with my other health problems I need as much sleep as I can get, so I can't face potential teary battles in the night trying to get her back to sleep without it and without her coming into my bed.
I've dropped hints about the 'dummy fairy' but she says she would rather keep her dummy. I even tried switching her dummy for a different shape, figuring she wouldn't get the same comfort and would abandon it herself, but apart from calling it a silly dummy she wasn't bothered!
So WIBU to say I can't face taking it off her now, and wait till she decides she's ready (and meanwhile keep dropping the hints about the dummy fairy?) I mean, she won't still want it when she's a teenager, will she? ignores fact that I sucked my thumb until I was far older than that thankfully it didn't affect my teeth