Previously dummy obsessed 10 month old has been really poorly the last two weeks with tonsilitis as well as all of her top front teeth coming through at once. While shes been unwell she's been really unsettled at sleep times and would only be soothed by me/boob. If we offer the dummy she'd suck on it for a moment and then spit it out/pull it out and launch it across the room and scream.
Now shes getting better (finished her course of antibiotics and cut one top tooth) but she is still refusing her dummy, despite relying on it to settle previously. She would be rocked to sleep with her dummy in by my husband and resettle herself in her cot by popping her dummy back in, but now its boob or nothing and I have had to go back to feeding her to sleep (sometimes every 45 minutes ...). I'm at a bit of a loss and very reluctant to send her back to nursery - without a dummy I don't think they'd get her to sleep - but cant stay off work forever.
Does anybody have any experience of dummy refusal around illness/teething? Is it temporary and something we just have to ride out until her top teeth appear or is the dummy gone for good?
If this is her giving up the dummy, how on earth do I go about teaching her to fall asleep without it/me? She gets so distressed, even being rocked/cuddled by me or her Dad, I can't imagine her ever calming down, let alone drifting off to sleep.
TIA