Is dummy and bottle fussiness at 3.5 months just a phase

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Hi all,

My 3.5 month old is driving me a bit mad at the moment and just wondering if anyone else has been through this 😅

She won’t keep her dummy in for more than a few seconds during the day — sucks it, spits it out, then cries for it straight away, over and over again. Even after feeds she’s doing it. Never did this as a newborn and loved her dummy.

She’s also started messing around with some of her bottles not all her bottles— will latch, take a bit, then turn her head and unlatch, then want it again and repeat the whole way through the feed.

When she’s really tired she’ll eventually fall asleep and keep the dummy in fine, so she can do it, which makes it more confusing.

Is this just a phase / developmental thing? Did anyone else’s baby do this and did it pass?

Losing my mind a bit with the constant dummy in and out 😩

How long has that been going on? It sounds like she wants the bottle/dummy but maybe it's uncomfortable when she takes it. Could she be teething and that is making her mouth more sensitive when sucking. Or I had a similar thing when mine was a baby and it turned out he had hand foot and mouth disease, and had a painful blister in his mouth.

its been going on for about 3 weeks now. I thought it was teething too but I also thought the pacifiers are suppose to help during teething.

Sore throat? Blocked nose? Teeth? Burnt roof of mouth? Not a dummy baby? Teat hole too small/big on bottle? Washing up with something that tastes gross?

My baby never accepted a dummy after about 6 weeks, so I just stopped bothering with it. Easier than trying to wrestle it off a toddler.

with feeds I think they start noticing a lot more of their surroundings around this age, so the latching and unlatching was something we went through. I did feeds in quieter, more boring places and it seemed to help.