Dummy help!

[Selondonmum1]

Dear all,

I would really appreciate some thoughts of weaning our four month old off a dummy. He is ebf and has had a dummy from around 4weeks to help with reflux at night. He predominantly only has it at night, although it has crept into daytime naps too. He doesn't always new or to go to sleep (can go for between 2-5 hours without it when he first goes to sleep). We would be happy for him to continue using it, but he has got into the habit of moaning for it of he wakes up and it has fallen out of his mouth. I am happy to pop it back in, but this might happen five or six times every time he wakes up so is very tiring all round. We have decided to go cold turkey as of last night, but I found the only way to comfort him was to feed him, after which he would sleep for around 90 mins, then I would need to feed him again.

He is too young for any sort of cc so I just wondered if anybody has any tips or had been through the same thing to get him to settle. We have given him a bunny comforter but he is a bit too young to use it.

Thanks in advance

In a short while he will be able to pop it back in himself, so worth bearing in mind that if he still needs it for comfort it may be worth riding it out.

We were in the same situation last week. My DS is 16 weeks and the dummy falling out was driving us both crazy. He also kept pulling it out with his hands and was getting hysterical that it kept disappearing. So we went cold turkey. We had a few more wakeful nights but the last two nights have been a lot better (don't know if this will last!). He's having a bit of trouble initially settling for naps but once asleep, is sleeping much better. We've replaced the dummy with a muslin to snuggle which definitely seems to have helped. Other than that, we've just been trying to help him learn to self settle by giving him a bit of space to grizzle, but comforting him if it escalates towards crying, as also trying to put him down once calm to give him another chance to do it himself. Good luck.