4 month old constantly waking for dummy

[CherryBlossom100]

My daughter has just turned 4 months old and sleeps 12 hours at night in her cot. She has just dropped her last night feed. All sounds great and she also self settles to sleep within minutes of being put in her cot every night.
The problem I have is that she wakes every hour or so when her dummy falls out. I’m a single parent and am finding the disrupted sleep difficult but am more worried about her quality of sleep. I’ve tried not giving the dummy both during day naps and night but she just ends up crying as she can’t fall asleep even with me rocking/soothing her.

Has anyone been through this? I know in a few months she’ll be able to put it back in. Do I wait for this?

Daytime naps happen in my arms with dummy and rocking and she only ever sleeps one sleep cycle so isn’t linking them. I don’t know if this is causing the issues at night too.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone. Just an update.
My daughter began waking for her dummy every half an hour and becoming very distressed during daytime naps.
I decided to go cold turkey on the dummy on Thursday. I don’t know if it was the right thing to do or not but was struggling to cope and she seemed so unhappy.
Nighttime sleep has improved greatly. Three wake ups the first night. I stroked and comforted her back to sleep each time, the longest it took was 30 mins, then 10 and then 5. She did cry each time which was heartbreaking but was never inconsolable.
The next two nights she has slept through 6.30-5am when she wakes for milk.
I know it may not last but I’m so glad that she has become so settled at night. Tonight at bed, I did her usual bedtime routine, put her in her cot and she rolled over and went to sleep.
Naps are still a massive issue. More so without the dummy as they always happened in my arms and I rocked her to sleep. Without the dummy, she cries and whines for 20 minutes, yesterday she refused to nap for almost 4 hours when I normally have her wake time at 1.5 hours.
Today was better but each nap was 25 minutes and she cried for each nap until she fell asleep.
Have I created another issue? We couldn’t have carried on how we were as we were both suffering from lack of sleep but don’t understand how she self settles at night now and sleeps through but fights naps so hard. I’ve also been told that she should be having three two hour naps by her age.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Weaning my DD off her funny was the best thing I ever done, I admit she was slightly older at 7 months old but like yourself the waking in the night/naps for the dummy was hard work! You can see an improvement in the nights which is a good thing! Have you thought about introducing a comforter, blanket or teddy maybe for daytime naps?? DD began having one maybe around 5 months a little blanket to hold and then when she was 6 months old I gave it to her at night in the cot. She'll get there it's still early days!

Thanks squeaky. You’re right that it’s early days and things have already improved but I hate to see her unhappy, especially as I know everything would be solved by putting the blasted dummy in her mouth. but don’t want to confuse her by reintroducing it for daytime only.
I already wrap her in a blanket to signal nap time and she starts crying the minute I start putting the blanket around her. I have a little comforter teddy that she has whenever we leave the house but she doesn’t really take any notice of it.