Has anyone introduced a dummy at 15 months old?

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Hi, I'm wondering if the best thing to do is get my baby to have a dummy on a night?

Bit of a back story. She is breastfed, still. She feeds throughout the day if and when she wants to as well as eating all her normal meals. She used to sleep through all night until around 11 months old, but she's been waking up almost every night since then. But the problem now is that she doesn't just wake up have a bit of milk and go to sleep again as she used to. She is constantly suckling at my breast all night, enough to make me believe she's not having milk. For instance last night she was doing it from 3:10 to 6:30 when I got up.

I'm pregnant, tired, and cannot sleep through her suckling anymore like I used to. I'm thinking of introducing nuk dummies for on a night so for if she wakes during the night once she's been to sleep. I have to breastfeed her to sleep as she doesn't go to sleep without milk when I'm in the house. But will gladly sleep for grandparents when I'm not around.

Any advice will be appreciated! Feel like I'd be taking a backwards step giving her a dummy as she's never had one but I could really do with a full nights sleep.

I wouldn’t introduce a dummy now. Advice is to get rid of them at 12 months. How do you feel about weaning from bf? Can your partner settle her at nights?

That's what I was thinking I didn't want to give her one but I feel like I don't have too much choice. I don't mind weaning her or keeping on breastfeeding her. In reality I didn't expect to be breastfeeding her still at 15 months but have done just because it's her comfort thing. She doesn't have a dummy or comfort blanket/teddy etc.

My partner isn't really great with the bedtime routine to be honest, he thinks she'll just fall asleep when she's tired etc so tends to keep her downstairs until she falls asleep. So it ends up being me reading her signs of tiredness and getting her to bed and sleep. I think I'll have a word with him and tell him he needs to start taking her to bed once she's tired and see how we go from there. @hormonesorDHbeingadick would you give her a bottle to go to sleep with? As she's so used to breastfeeding to sleep. Or will it not have the same effect?

I ff my older girl from
6 weeks and have a new born who is bf so i haven’t had to wean and older baby. I won’t give a bottle as bottles should be gone by 12 months and teeth should be brushed after the bottle.

Definitely get your other half doing half of bedtimes now as when you are established bf with your baby won’t be able to do bedtime and you want her to be used to Daddy doing the majority of bedtimes by then.

I love dummies but wouldn’t introduce one at 15 months - it would be unlikely she would take it anyway.

I would probably just try and do some sleep training (maybe something gentle / slower if you would prefer) to break the bf to sleep habit. There is a good thread on here called ‘what worked for us’ if you google it. It was a similar situation and they gradually broke the feeding to sleep habit.

If bf to sleep is working for you that is brilliant, but I imagine you are probably shattered now and want to try and get things settled before you have your new baby.

@Sipperskipper yes I definitely want to make things a bit easier ready for when the new baby arrives. I'll have a look into the thread you have recommended and hopefully find something that'll work for us.