My 16 week old had slept fairly well at night until about 3 weeks ago when she started waking every 90 minutes and I was then getting her out the crib and breastfeeding her back to sleep. We've made quite a lot of changes in the past few weeks as I realised that the problem was that she was used to feeding to sleep so was always needing that to get back to sleep.
Previously she hadn't taken a dummy but I've now introduced one as I realised she was often using me as a dummy in the night and wasn't really taking that much milk. We also put her down awake - I started this at nap times and then at bedtimes. I'm so pleased with how it's worked out and she generally goes off to sleep herself in a matter of minutes for both naps and bedtime which is fab. She has a dummy and one of those teddies with a blanket bit as a comforter and I play soft music at nap times and white noise at night.
So getting her to sleep isn't an issue. What happens though is that she stirs several times in the night and calls out but doesn't actually cry. I find if I put her dummy back in she will then settle fine and go back to sleep. When she wakes around 1am and 4am I feed her instead.
What I'm wondering is do I need to be putting the dummy back in or do you think she'd settle herself without? I know I should probably wait before going in but I always think that if I didn't go into her when she starts calling out she'll eventually wake up fully and then it'll take ages to settle her. My plan is to in a few weeks use nap times to get her to try to fall asleep without the dummy so should I just keep on putting it in for now?
Sorry, I realise this is a bit rambling! Just getting a bit stressed that she'll never sleep through the night although I'm proud of what I've achieved in terms of not having to feed her or rock her to sleep as I was doing before.