Does your baby have a dummy? Need advice ....

[Ghosty]

S'only me folks!!
Just need a bit of advice re. the dummy thing. We gave DD a dummy a couple of weeks ago because she was very sucky and after having a good feed would bob on and off the breast for ages getting all agitated before chucking up because she had gone and got herself too full ...
At the time we thought it was a really great idea and she seemed really settled and happy.
However ... it has backfired BIG TIME!
The little minx now won't go to sleep without it now and when she dozes off and it falls out she wakes up and howls ... I don't mind during the day but at night after her night time feed I am constantly putting it back in - the last couple of nights it has taken her 2 hours to get back to sleep ...
I have tried to put her back on the breast to settle her that way but she already has had a really good long feed and really doesn't want it ...
So, my question to mummies whose babies have dummies .... Will I be up and down putting the dummy back in forever? I don't mind her having it but I want to know when she will learn to find it herself?
At the moment she is sleeping in our room and so when I put the dummy back I just have to reach into her bassinet but we want to put her in her own room soon so what will I do then?

Thanks ........

My Ds had a dummy up untill the age of around 18/19 months. Thought she would have it forever and ever, but then she hurther mouth quite badly on a juice bottle plus got infection and the Docter said she wasnt allowed it.

So she had the short, sharp shock treatment as all the dummys went in the bin and have never returned. Thing is she had forgotten by about two days later and has never asked for it.

Im all for dummys if they help which they certainly did me. My Ds has never took to one although i did offer.

Gosh - i'd say my dd was well over 1 yr old before she could 'find' her dummy at night.

But (at 26mths) - she is now 5 nights DUMMY FREE. yipee. She still 'asks' for it but we change the subject and distract her. I still have them in the house but might get rid of them this weekend. If she has made it this far I won't be rushing to give them back to her.