Toddler waking 6 times a night - time to lose the dummy?

[Paddingtonthebear]

23 month old DD has been a good sleeper but lately is waking more and more during the night. She's usually ok from the 7pm-10pm stretch but then wakes 2-6 times between 11-6. I hear her saying "dummy gone", I go into her room and find the dummy in her cot and she goes back to sleep. Then it starts again in an hour or so. I don't know why she can't find the dummy herself anymore. Last night I got up 6 times, the night before 5 times, 3 the night before that. She was sleeping through from about 4 months bar a few bad patches. Her sleep has been erratic for the last few months, early waking, random crying in the night, fighting naps when clearly exhausted and needing them.

I was planning on getting rid of the dummy between age 2-3 in the hope I can explain it to her and bribe her with the dummy fairy or similar.

Is it madness to go cold turkey now and just bin it? I imagine it would take a few horrendous days and nights but I'm fed up with getting up all through the night and it seems to be becoming more frequent.

We did cold turkey around that time with DS1. We had one reasonably good night, then three quite bad nights, I think, then he got over it.

If you're disrupted and up anyway, might as well do cold turkey.

Alternatively if you are not ready you can 'load' her when you go to bed. Dummy in mouth, one dummy in each hand and dummies scattered around head.
It works and DD still gave her dummy at just 3. At the stage at which I loaded her she wasn't ready and I was working crazy hours so didn't have the mental stamina.

My three year old still has a dummy at night and we also have 3 or 4 dummies in the cot. Before I go to sleep I always make sure they're carefully placed so he can reach them in the night. This seems to work