6 month old waking up for dummy

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6 month old goes down to bed about 7/730pm and sleeps well until about 3am.
After 3 he can wake up every 45 minutes crying for me to put his dummy back in, I am so tired I’m basically not getting back to sleep past 3am. I’m getting less sleep now than I did when he was a newborn.

I haven’t moved him to his own room as we have a 3 story house and his room is downstairs from us, I can’t bring myself to be going up and down the stairs all night putting the dummy in.

Has anyone taken a dummy away at this age and how did it go? Or does anyone else have any other advice? I have tried teaching him to put the dummy in himself but he doesn’t move his hand away once it’s in so it ends up falling out again.

I know this isn’t what you want to hear but if your 6 month old is sleeping 8 hours straight you are absolutely winning at life. Personally I would go to bed earlier and suck up the 45 minute wake ups for the dummy. It’s only going to be a few months until he can put it in himself. I would think if you take the dummy away you risk disrupting his amazing sleep!

Yeah that's a really good sleep for one so young. Are you still offering a night feed? I would be feeding at 3am and seeing if that got a longer sleep. I BF and mine still wakes at 12 months old at about that time, feeds and usually goes back to sleep until about 6am which is amazing. Bar teething and illness etc obviously when she wakes more. She has a dummy but usually once she's done the longer stretch she wants a feed not just the dummy back in or she keeps waking up every 10 or so mins.

Get about 7 glow in the dark dummies and scatter around

At 6 months it really won't be long before your dc can pop it back it themselves. Put a few in there...