Just looking for some advice really from more experienced mums out there (FTM here).
DS is 3 months and he’s a brilliant sleeper (which I am so, so thankful for) but for the past two or three nights he has been waking crying multiple times a night (10+) and only settles again when I pop his dummy back in.
For reference, he eagerly takes the dummy when he’s tired, but he isn’t always reliant on it to fall asleep. It often falls out after a few minutes of him being asleep and he’s quite happy without it. Have tried to give it back to him both immediately and a few minutes after it’s fallen but most the time he’s not interested.
I don’t have a problem with him having the dummy, in fact I probably encourage it as he is much too young to self soothe and it brings him comfort. We also use other sleep associations/ comforting methods such as white noise, gentle pats and he loves his face being stroked to sleep.
Ruled out hunger as he is not shy about letting us know when he’s hungry! We tried that first but it was just the dummy he wanted.
Have also tried soothing him in other ways mentioned above but again, only the dummy worked.
Could he be early teething? He does seem very dribbly and eager to chew lately?
Just wondering if there’s anything I can do to limit the wake ups/ reinserting?
Please don’t get me wrong, I realise that I’m very fortunate he sleeps well and if nothing can be done to change it that’s okay but it was happening throughout the night and then every 15/20 minutes between 2-4am last night so I’m open to advice.
TIA!