Throwing dummy!

[Amelia03]

Advice please..

My daughter is 11 months old and has a new party trick of throwing her dummy out the cot more times than I can count in the last three nights before she finally falls asleep (last night she finally went to sleep at 11pm of being in bed at 7pm) - what makes it worse is that she laughs when you walk in the room..

She’s been an excellent sleeper so far and self settles with her dummy so this is very frustrating. She has mesh bumper bars but throws it over the top!

Has anyone weaned off a dummy at this age? I’m not very good and controlled crying either, I can do it but as she’s got older I find it harder and she gets herself in a state even after 5 minutes..

Thanks x

My dd does this to get attention.....I ended up putting 4 dummies in her bed but sometimes she throws them all out. She also wouldn't settle without me there so I did my version of disappearing chair.

I would say goodnight and lie her down and then sit on the floor with my head in my hands near the cot and I would count. She would basically get up and cry or throw her dummies out to get my attention. As soon as she did this I would count to a minute or slightly more, get up slowly and put the dummy back lie her down say goodnight and sit on the floor again. 2nd time I would do the same. Anytime after I would do the same but no communication or eye contact.

Eventually I could get closer to the door and she would get up less.

After a few weeks she learnt to lie herself back down and now about 4 months later she self settles and only throws her dummies out if she is having a really bad night.

Sometimes on the monitor I would hear her talking and giggling and then all would be quiet.

I couldn't do controlled crying although I have learnt now not to go in if she starts moaning as sometimes she is finding her dummy and settles down again. Or I would let her cry if it knew she was only doing it for attention and wasn't really upset (No tears)

Dd started this on holiday. I tied it to her sleeping bag with a sleeping mask (all we had) on night 3 and have given her dummies tied to corner of a muslin sheet since. Easier to find in the night and harder to Chuck.