Dummy addiction

[Emmam]

Kmg - how are you doing? I missed your posting a couple of weeks again about your youngest not sleeping. Did you manage to sort it out? How is the dummy thing going too?

If you've cracked the dummy then how about trying him in a bed? Maybe it would help him sleep if he thought he was going in a bed just like his big brother? I don't know what the age difference is, but could you treat them the same when going to bed now? Put them both to bed at the same time and read a story to them both. If his older brother sets a good example about going to bed then he might follow suit. This may take a few days to get used to a change in routine, but would it help at all?

In my experience any changes involving sleep training have taken around 5 days.

Let me know how you are doing anyway.

My daughter (21 months) still has a dummy when she sleeps. She doesn't want it at any other time but this took some effort. I started when she was around 1 taking it away in the day and carrying it with me to give to her if she was really upset. I think it was more me that needed to think of other ways to stop her crying instead of reaching for the good old dummy but it's easily done with books, a drink, raisins, toys, etc.
As I say, she still has it for sleeping and at 21 months she still goes down so easily for a sleep (and lots of my friends don't seem to be able to get theirs to have daytime sleeps without waiting for them to fall asleep in the car, pram, etc) and I think this is probably a bit to do with having the comfort of her dummy (which seems an advantage to me??). She never asks for it in the day now, she just associates it with sleep (and it always falls out after about an hour of her being asleep so she's not sucking on it all night).
I would relax on still using a dummy at 7 months, especially if you are just trying to use it at sleep time.

my dd has her dummy for sleep and she's 7 months. Initially I preferred her to suck her thumb because I thought it looked nicer but if you think about it, dummies are better because you can take them away (can't do that with the thumb !) and also they don't push the teeth out.