Sleep deprived advice needed :) my 7 month old boy will go to sleep totally fine (usually just after his bottle), for about 5 hours or so (lets say from 7.30 until around 2am). then he'll wake up, and cry until he gets his dummy. we put him down without a dummy but of course the bottle substituted that and got him to sleep. he'll then wake up every hour or so when he loses the dummy. we've tried leaving him, but he shares his room with his 3 year old sister, so she'll just end up being woken up if we leave him for long.
we've tried introducing a blanket or soft toy for him to cuddle as a sleeping aid instead, but it doesn't seem to be working so far.
can anyone give any more advice?