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sleep phases.....waking early/dummies

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lilsmum · 31/08/2004 12:21

my dd is 7 mths and has slept through from 4 weeks, i recently put her in own room which hasnt bothered her at all but the problem i have is she has a dummy at night and wakes up if it falls out when she was in my room this wasnt a prob as i could put it back in before she cried i.e woke up properly she does go back off but is there anything i can do about this? also she has always slept 8pm till 7am but recently she has been waking at 5am!!! and will not go back off......i have tried offering bottle but she doesnt have much so i know its not hunger do babies go through phases of waking earlier? she woke at 5am this morning and i was that tired i brought her in the bed with me and thankfully she slept till 7.30am do you think i could be starting a bad habit if i do this again?or would you do this again?

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aloha · 31/08/2004 12:43

I'd say the 5am wake is a phase - a dreadful one!
Re the dummy, we used a dummy clip at that age and taught ds to put it back himself, which worked. I'd get sleep where and when I could to be honest.

AnnaK · 31/08/2004 14:26

I have the same problem with ds (6 months). He is not in his own room yet but I was hoping to do it this weekend. It does say on the dummy clips not to use them at night. Is that written by someone who doesn't have a sceaming baby or is it really sound advice? The dummy clip I am currently using is a Mam one. Help!

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lilsmum · 31/08/2004 15:26

my dd has had a dummy clip at night from day one!!! makes no difference what so ever.... she can put the dummy in herself in the day but not at night drives me mad!!!!

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prettycandles · 31/08/2004 15:27

We went cold-turkey on the dummy at 6m. We knew that dd could sleep through, because she had been doing so about once a week for months, but generally we had the same problem as you with the dummy - hence the cold-turkeying. She also went through a phase, about the same age or earlier, of waking early. At this age I don't think it's a big deal bringing her into your bed for an hour or two. She could still be unsettled by waking up alone in a 'strange' room. Give it another couple of weeks and see what happens. Also, don't go to her the minute she squeaks in the mornings, give her 10-20mins, she may resettle herself. We used to do that with dd, eventually makingit a policy never to go to her if she woke before 6am unless she was really getting worked up, and gradually extended the time. She grew out of early waking, and generally wakes around 7am now (20m).

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lilsmum · 31/08/2004 15:55

thanks prettycandles will give that a go!! i must admit i do jump up as soon as she starts i do so through the night and in morn i do want to get dummy off her of a night.is it really difficult?

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lilsmum · 31/08/2004 15:57

ALOHA how did you teach yours to put back in themselves? as i said she does it of a day but i think that is because she sees it.obviously of a night she cant therefore doesnt put back in herself

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ebbie22 · 31/08/2004 17:07

you can buy glow in the dark ones if that helps...

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lulupop · 31/08/2004 19:34

Had the same problem with DS, put about 15 dummies all around his cot in the hope he'd find one - he never did! So I took dunnies away about 7 months and after 2 nights he wasn't, interested in them any more. He still woke up, but he didn't want the dummy even if I offered it.

Swore I wouldn't end up in that situation again... and here I am with DD, loves her dummy, has me up about 10 times a night to replace it . Oh well, you live and learn

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lilsmum · 31/08/2004 20:41

thanks everyone!!! i glad it not just me that suffers with this lol the prob is that even if i take it off her i am sure she would she wake and it would be harder to get her back off... i suppose i will just have to ride the storm thanks to all who replied and if anyonecomes up with a magic solution please let me know lol xxx

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prettycandles · 31/08/2004 20:42

IIRC, dd went from asleep with the dummy in her mouth to hysterical because the dummy was gone without actually waking and looking for it. But within a day or two of taking the dummy away she had latched on to her thumb. I used to intensely dislike - ok, hate - thumb-sucking and vastly prefered a dummy, but what the heck, I get more sleep this way!

It took 2-3 nights to sort out going to sleep in the first place, a bit longer to sort out the night-time wakings - a week or two maybe? IIRC a slept about 3 weeks in total on the sofa (dd was still in our room at that time). Daytime naps took months to sort out, but that was more because of having to fit dd's nap and feed times in with ds's nursery schedule.

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