What are people's experiences of the PUPD sleep technique?

[AlmondFrangipani]

We have a 4.5 month old DS who has never been a good sleeper. He wakes up to 10 times a night and we struggle to get him back to sleep without a dummy. He's now 'found' the dummy in his mouth and is pulling it out which is exasperating the problem. Essentially, he can't self soothe so we are very tired parents!

Our next thoughts are to try the PUPD method to weaning him off the dummy and hopefully teach himself to go back to sleep if he does wake in the night. How have people got on with it??

We tried this with our dd around this age, it really didn't work for us. As a 'no cry' technique, my dd cried a lot and I found it quite upsetting too. It just really wound her up, we tried it for about 45 mins and she was so upset, we just had to give up. But I should say, a friend of mine swears by it and didn't have the same experience so maybe it's down to the individual baby.
To get her to self settle, my dh lay next to her while she fell asleep, she still cried for a little while but he was right next to her so it was more bearable for us all.
Give it a go, hopefully it will work for you, as soon as our dd could self settle everything got better!

A pile of shite.

Your baby is young - 4 months is classi sleep regression and massive growth spurt time so sleep goes to pot anyway. Mine got self settling from 5/6 months as I basically would feed and rock then put down to see how they would get on. If they got upset I would go back in and cuddle, if they grumbled I would give it some time. After a while, they'd start settling themselves. Didn't stop the night wakings though!

Dd was and still is a dummy fiend (she's 2!!) and we had a rough patch until she was older and could find her dummy again. I wish I'd dropped it but she had reflux so a huge source of comfort for her.

Echo Steam Wisher - didn't work at all for us, simply made dd more and more wound up. Picking her up and shush/patting her didn't soothe her at all and she carried on crying. Repeatedly giving her the dummy and her comforter, did however stop the crying.

Was hellish until around 12 months or so though did improve slowly. We did CC around 10 months which encouraged dd to find one of the many dummies in her cot and her comforter. In the end that was what made the most difference. Purely personal experience though.

Thanks for the feedback. That's what I feared to be honest! He's a dummy fiend too and has reflux! Picking him up doesn't soothe him either so was skeptical to try. Just going to have to ride the storm...

Tried this about 6 weeks ago with my baby. He was 9 months old.

Was truly awful. Both of us were distressed, totally upsetting and horrible.

He screamed for over an hour. In the end I bf him to comfort him. When he eventually fell asleep, he was still sobbing in his sleep for ages.

Felt cruel.

You need to be made of tough stuff to see it through.