Is dummy an answer for sleepless nights when teething?

[lovelyJ]

My DS is 3mo and has started process of teething. There are good and bad days. Nights has changed from 1-time-feed to every-hour-feeds. I've tried to give him nurofen, calpol, homeopathic teething tablets and nothing seems to make any difference. He still wakes up every 1.5-2 h with cry. Does anyone know if dummy would help him to sleep through the night? I'm knackered! I don't know what to do to ease his pain and get us both quality sleep time!

Try a dummy. You need your sleep.

Has you ds ever had a dummy?it is worth a go and will soothe him x

We finally caved and gave DS a dummy when he was teething at 3m. I only wish we'd done it sooner.

Do be prepared to be woken up when your ds wakes up and it's fallen out, but to us, popping the dummy back in was a quick easy fix. Much better than having to try and resettle a wailing, sore, unhappy baby.

Good luck.

I've never given him dummy before.

Mehrida, I haven't given him dummy before, cos I don't want him to get into habit of suckling it every time he cries. Do you still use dummy or it was purely for soothing DS at night when teething?

That's the risk unfortunately. We actually weaned him off it for a short while then the teething started up again and we went back to it.

At 6m he managed to find it in his cot by himself and we had our first full night's sleep (he had a horrific sleep regression at 4m).

We were really anti-dummy, and in an ideal world he wouldn't have it, but we've just decided that if he's soothed, he's sleeping and we're sleeping then I just need to get over it :/

He doesn't get it when awake tho, as I was worried about teeth, speech development etc. He doesn't look for it when awake, just at bed/naptime.

Sorry this has turned out really long!

thx Mehrida. I gave him dummy last night and he wouldn't have it at first. After few attempts dummy finally stayed in his mouth. I stroke his head and he's fallen asleep. Will try again tonight, but I'll be quicker tonight and will try to put dummy in his mouth before he'll start crying cos yesterday it took a while before he calmed down. Thanks for your feedback. I don't want to give him dummy during the day either. It's just for the night to give all of us at home good sleep at night.

Couldn't agree more using a dummy. Yes, they look horrible, but they can work! My DS used one when sleeping (only) and has (cross fingers) from that day forward to this slept all through. He finally lost interest in using one at about 4 years old (some people will stop using them before that, but I decided that since it seemed to give him comfort why not just leave him with it).

He's teething again and won't take dummy. He has a poo after every feed and won't sleep as I suppose, his tummy hurts. I haven't had good sleep last night, he hasn'tt sleep today yet. Every time he drifts off, he wake up with cry followed by poo. What's more I have swallen booby, shivers and chills and I'm on my own! have a great sunday! :(