My LO goes to sleep without a dummy and always has but 90% of the time she will wake once or maybe twice in the night and scream out. For ease we have fallen into the pattern of giving her a dummy as she will fall asleep almost straight away. On a few occasions we have left her and she just works herself up more and more. Now she is 1 I'm not sure what to do to help her if we don't resort to the dummy as she is a very hyper / active one and any form of interaction wakes her up totally. No shhhing, resting hand on back etc works - they never have!
We also use a dummy for her naps as without one she wakes after 30 minutes, every time and won't go back to sleep despite being SO grumpy and upset.
I just don't understand why she can go to sleep without a dummy at bedtime but all other times are tricky.