Weaning 6 month old off dummy- help!

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Hi all,

I'm looking for some help and advice on how to wean my 6 month DS off of his dummy.

It's had it's uses but it he has now started waking up throughout the night for it when it falls out and it's tiring me out.

He's still sleeping in with us at the moment but I don't feel it's practical to move him into his own room until this is sorted. It's one thing popping it back in from bed, but I don't want to have to keep getting up in the night.

I guess I need to look at some form of sleep training but I have no idea where to start.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can offer!

You can also let him play with the dummy durring the day until he figures out how to put it back in his mouth. 6 months is also a big sleep regression.

My son learnt how to find and put in his own dummy about 6 months. I swear it drastically improved his sleep and he slept through as he could just put it back in.

There’s a few options. Lots of them around the cot, a bunny thing that they attach to so he can just pull one off. We had a dummy attached to a small toy so he just had to find the toy.

Thank you for all your advice. I'd heard about the 4 month sleep regression (which we survived unscathed) but I didn't know about there being one about this age. Maybe I'll just try and see it out then before making any major decisions.

He looks like he's close to being able to put it back in himself, it's either the wrong way round though or slightly off target at the moment. We'll keep working on it! I do prefer the idea of being able to 'reason' it away from him when he's a bit older!

Hi OP, we recently got rid of the dummy at 6 months for the same reason, I was constantly having to wake up to put it back in when it fell out and woke him up.
For 2 weeks we stopped him having it during the day and then just went cold turkey on it at night one weekend. There were a couple of nights where he cried and took longer to get to sleep but he adapted quickly and we kept the other sleep cues (white noise sheep and lullaby music). Over all it wasn't as bad as I was expecting!

I did the same, and it was surprisingly easy! I think maybe because we also had a teddy comforter as well as the dummy. And I think I just got lucky. We just stopped one day at morning nap time when he would normally fall asleep really easy. Took a little longer and after that he sort of refused to take it (even when we tried to give it back!) although to be honest, nap times probably took a bit of a hit without it though.

OP- if the dummy falling out at night is the issue- this will save your own sanity and sleep- used with both DCs-miracle worker- little bunny you attach the dummies too- place several around the cot- they find them instantly and dummy pops back in!

www.amazon.co.uk/Sleepytot-SLE-SM-C-Bunny/dp/B001FXDUB2?tag=mumsnetforum-21