Dummies!!!!

[WhenTwoBecomeThree]

My 8 month old has a dummy, she mainly uses it just for naps and bedtime. Through the night we're getting up about 6 times a night to go and put her dummy in, then she'll go straight back to sleep and to be honest, I'm sick of it. She starts nursery in less than a month and I don't want her going to nursery and them having to fish dummies out from under the cots or us continue spending money on replacing them. We always have to make sure we have one on us when we go out and they're just a pain.

I've just tried to put her down for a nap, gave her a comforter that smells of us and she's screamed for an hour. I've given in and give her the dummy and she's gone straight off.

My partner is about as helpful as a chocolate teapot and his 'suggestion' is 'why do we need to get rid of it?' Whilst he sits on his backside and hasn't bothered to help me settle her without the dummy.

So i'm coming to you lovely MNers to see what your suggestions are. I just don't want her having it anymore and I wish we'd got rid of it sooner!

Ive recently introduced a cuddley rabbit into the cot with my son. He'll quite often fall asleep hugging it with the dummy out of his mouth. I think in the fullness of time it'll replace the dummy as another comforter. Maybe do that? Its a small cuddley toy, i'd say about the size of my hand.

Just to add, when we took the dummy away then we replaced it with a comforter toy which now at age 2 he is still attached to (but I don't mind that!)

We just went through this with one of our twins, who are 7 months. The girl started waking every 1-2 hours to have the dummy put in (just that because you'd curse, feel round for it, find it, put it in and she'd drop off again). We went cold turkey. Took ages to settle her the first time but she started sleeping longer from night one. I guess she half-woke but didn't miss the dummy because it wasn't in her mouth to begin with. We're about a week in and now she goes down for naps and bedtime with minimum (albeit loud) fuss.

Now I need to do twin 2 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just thought I would also say that I am glad we took the dummy away prior to when DS could move/talk/tantrum.

Were I to attempt to take something like that away now, he would have a meltdown and I wouldn't be able to do it, whereas when they are younger it's just a cry and they aren't shouting "mummumumum" and banging against their cot etc

Oh god my eldest is 3 in December and in love with dummies. Strictly limited to sleep but I'm dreading taking them off her. I'll have to do the Santa thing I think.... I wish I'd got rid earlier !!

I didn't give my DD a dummy and when she was about 1 she started to suck her thumb. I dipped her little thumbs in lemon and that was the end of her thumb sucking. Do you think that perhaps if you dip her dummy in lemon juice it would put her off it ?

(dip dummy in lemon juice before giving it to her I mean)

Do you think that perhaps if you dip her dummy in lemon juice it would put her off it ?
They advise not to stick soothers into anything as apparently it's extra bad for their teeth, it gets lodged in the rubber or something, same with never putting juice into a baby bottle apparently?

8 months is so young, I'm so sorry but I don't think going cold turkey and leaving an 8 month old to pretty much get over it is worth it really, they're so young and the job of it is to soothe