Is it too late to get my 8th month old to take dummy

[Sincity1993]

Hi guys,
My DD is 8 months and is using a bottle to settle herself to sleep even if she's not hungry. Is it too late to try to encourage a dummy instead. I've tried before but she's not interested and just bites on teat and spits it out.

No idea whether or not you could introduce a dummy at this point, just came on to say: are you sure you want to? OK, it may help settle her to sleep, but at what cost? We ended up weaning DD off dummies at 7 months because she was waking up to 30 times per night (no exaggeration) because the dummy had fallen out of her mouth. I know not every baby is like this, but you don't know if that's what you might be signing up for! I'd try to break the 'sucking to sleep' association rather than swapping teats for dummies.

We started DD on dummies at 8 months; we tried her early on and she wouldn’t accept it then at 8 months her sleep was so awful we decided to try anything and the dummy was the solution.
Really I would have preferred not to have used one. Is she just going to sleep at night with the bottle or needing it to settle every time she wakes in the night? If it’s just to go to bed I’d probably try to avoid it but if you’re having to feed during the night to get her to settle then it’s a possible solution

Hi to be honest I didn't think that far ahead regarding the dummy in future or having to put dummy back in frequently at night! She's using a toy to snuggle with at moment so might try continually using that to settle her so she doesn't associate bottle with sleep. I'll try that, thankyou 😊