Dummy for early morning waking 17 months

[Newmummy9]

Hi, I’m fed up of giving my daughter the dummy at 4:30/5:30 to get my early morning wakes back to sleep. Please help!

My 17 month old toddler has had the dummy in the day but not at night. Around a year she went through a phase of screaming in the middle of the night, I tried CC but 1.5 hours later I gave her the dummy for the first time at night and she instantly stopped crying and went to sleep until 7am. This began the habit of giving her the dummy when she woke in the night. This also solved the early morning waking she’s been doing since 6 months old. At the time is was a great solution as it meant I could go back to sleep too but now I’m a bit fe up of waking up every morning between 4:30 and 5:30. Now the night waking seems to have stopped but she wakes at 4:30-5:30am (her old early morning waking time) and I plug the dummy in which sends her back to sleep until 6:30/7. Before giving her the dummy in the early morning I tried leaving her and she’d just cry on and off until 6:30/7, she’s wouldn’t go back to sleep. When she wakes at 4:30-5:30 she wakes with a real scream, I don’t think I could leave her to cry.

She goes to bed at 7;30 with no dummy and naps for 1.5/2 hrs after lunch with no dummy.
Any advice for getting her to finally sleep through?

Go for a week without the dummy-it will be hell but worth it.

Thanks superram. I think she will just bawl her eyes out until I decide to go and get her at 6:30ish. Will she ever learn to just go back to sleep?

Can you get her one of those comforters that the dummy attaches to and put it in her cot when you go to bed? At 17 months she should be able to find it and put it in herself? Or go cold turkey on the dummy but replace it with something to cuddle?

I didn’t want to start giving it to her at bedtime as I would like to wean her off the dummy sometime and don’t want to get her more attached to it. She goes to bed without a fuss with no dummy which is great.

I thought it was such a great solution at the start as it seemed to solve the early morning waking, which I’d spent months and months trying to solve.

Put a few dummies in her cot and she might be able to put one in herself?

Sneak in her room just before you go to bed and scatter a few dummies round her so she can find one herself when she wales up and that way she still goes down without?x

We did the opposite, dummy at night but they never had it in the day.
We put loads in the cot/bed and just let them find it themselves.
Took the dummy away for both of them just before they were 2 with no issues.

I would either go full cold turkey and no dummy ever, or just let her have one at bed times and wean when she's a bit older and understands more.

Personally I would give in and give dummies at bed time, purely because I'm a misery without my sleep and to be honest she's still so little I don't think having it only for bed is an issue. Most of the time they just suck it til they go off to sleep and then it falls out, then once they wake up they root around for it again and the cycle goes on.

My baby wakes around 5am and consistently grunts and groans until about 6.30. Last night this started at 3am. If he