Baby sleep

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Looking for some advice
Our boy is just over 4 months and since dropping his night feed he has been waking up multiple times through the night for his dummy to be reinserted. We assumed it was part of the 4 month sleep regression however are now getting a bit concerned we are creating a sleep crutch 😳. We started off being up only a few times, now it can be around 10. If we let him wake, he’s fully awake and not looking for a feed nor drink es he have any intentions of going back to sleep!
Having looked online it seems fairly common and there’s varying advice on how to overcome it. Did anyone on here have the same issue and if so, what did you do?
is this part of the 4 month sleep regression and he’ll grow out of it or are we creating an issue? Is there a chance it might improve when he starts in solids?
I am not interested in the cry it out method although not opposed to very gentle sleep training if there’s no suitable alternatives

He’s four months and has no feeds overnight? When is his last feed, and his first one of the next day?

It very well might be sleep regression issues.
Did he drop his night feed naturally?
From my experience my dd1 woke up every 45 minutes and fed at that stage, mostly for comfort too, this continued for 3 months before she went back to her 2 hourly feeds.
Dd2 went from 3hr to 2 hr feeds for just a month and then naturally went back to 3. I just stuck with it both times (obviously different situation but similar waking and comforting issues as you)
I'd try feeding still to help eliminate any hunger cues that could wake him (or topping up before bed, trying different milk ect), 4 months is very young (in my non professionalopinion) to have dropped all night feeds, and sounds like he is using a dummy for comfort to bridge the gap between sleep cycles but obviously at 4 months can't quite get it back in himself.
Not much help I know, but some babies just take longer to go through the regression and there is no telling if you're creating a crutch or not until its either happened or he's over it. You have to think that in another few months he will be more likely to be able to reinsert his dummy himself also
You're doing a great job though! I know it's tough doing a wake up 10x a night!