Getting rid of the dummy advice

[CremeDeSudo]

Me again..

I'm hoping to get rid of DDs dummy soon. I'm replacing it far too many times now as she keeps putting her fingers to her mouth and pulling it out and needs it to resettle. It's becoming the bane of my life. She'll be 5mo next week.

So how do I do it? How do you teach them to sleep without it? If we're heading into proper sleep training territory I'll put it off for a little bit longer.

When I did this with DS for the same reason, I did anything I could to get him to sleep however he ended up reliant on me as a sleep crutch. I ended up having to do the crying over dummy withdrawal then sleep training two weeks later. I'd like to just stick to the once this time of possible!

My LO went through a small phase of losing it through the night, but now she's fine so i'd say keep going to see if it gets better.

I'm waiting to get rid of it when we can do the dummy fairy or something

I've been keeping going for a couple of weeks now.

She's currently screaming upstairs because every time I put it in she knocks it back out and can't go to sleep without it. I already put her down asleep and she's woken up.

I was coming in to ask the same thing but DD is 2.5!

At that age I gave DD a glow in the dark dummy and let her play with it durring the day so she got used to finding it. But then you maybe in my situation soon.

Just a gentle reminder that SIDS guidelines are that babies should sleep in a room with another adult until they are 6 months old.

5 months is a bit soon to be expecting her to find it and put it back herself. But... If you can do away with it now, you might save problems later. On the other hand, my two year old isn't anywhere near ready to give it up. Watching for advice now!

I said this at 5 months.. now 18 months and he's still got his dummy am watching this thread! My dd never took to one so it's all new territory to me!

I went cold turkey at 17 weeks, she forgot about it after one night and now she has no interest.

The lullaby trust says wait until 6 months. I'm planning on biting the bullet and going cold turkey just after for DS, but will see how he is with his teeth as he really uses it for comfort.

She eventually got herself in such a state that she wouldn't even have the dummy, eventually found her thumb and has conked out. Now I'm wondering if we should ditch it now but it's DH's morning tomorrow so I can sleep and don't I don't trust him not to cave! Lol

I don't think I can keep this up til 6 months. It's getting ridiculous. Even co-sleeping doesn't help get me through the night. And tonight she just kept knocking it out as she's trying to suck her fingers at the same time as he dummy! I couldn't even get her to keep it in let alone go to sleep and put it back later!

I know SIDS guidelines, but I'm upstairs about 9 so she's only on her own a couple of hours and we have the video monitor on. If we tried keeping her down here there's no chance she'd sleep and she's ready for bed at half 6, 7.

So we scrapped it! Today is day 4. Hasn't been as bad as I thought in fairness although I've ended up in the same situation I was in with DS as she now can't get to sleep without assistance. Am gutted because I'm back to square one with being able to put her down awake.

Seriously, how the f**k do you get them to sleep without a dummy? I can't even cuddle her to sleep this afternoon. And if she does somehow drop off as soon as I sit down she wakes up again. This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't want to have to let her cry but if I can't even settle her to let her be sleepy but awake then wtf am I meant to do?!