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Four month sleep regression and the dummy

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SowerbyMum · 21/11/2019 18:58

Hi all, first time posting on here! My daughter seems to have hit the dreaded four month sleep regression. She’s 16 weeks old and was sleeping through the night from 12 weeks until about a week ago. Now she wakes several times in the night. She doesn’t appear to be hungry and goes back to sleep with her dummy. All the advice online is quite scary and conflicting, and I’m concerned that her reliance on the dummy will have us stuck in the situation forever.

Some say we should ditch the dummy cold turkey, but that seems so cruel when she finds it so soothing.

Does anyone have any experience of riding out the four month sleep regression with the dummy? Or do I have to find a way to get rid of it?

P.s I’m not sure if it’s relevant, but she’s actually quite good at being put down awake but with her dummy, and she will settle to sleep like that on her own (only at bedtime, not for daytime naps)

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OlderthenYoungerNow · 21/11/2019 18:59

Life is hard enough, keep the dummy. A lot (most, maybe?) of the population have had a dummy and you don't see kids walking to school with them or adults commuting back from work on the train sucking one. Obviously they give them up at some point!

Gangrenethatmightwork · 21/11/2019 19:00

One we went cold Turkey with the dummy at 4 months. No problem, switched to thumb. Now we can't stop her sucking her thumb/finger.
Second is still on dummy for the foreseeable.

OlderthenYoungerNow · 21/11/2019 19:00

If you do want to get rid before she's a toddler, do it after a regression around 11/12 months.

Shauna044 · 22/11/2019 09:19

I'm having the exact same problem with the 4 month mark. I cant say she was a brilliant sleeper but now just seems possessed! My DD is exactly the same. Gets put down awake with a dummy after her feed and is perfectly happy. This also doesnt work in the day time, I do rock her to sleep then. But she wakes up so often in the night and doesnt seem to want feeding. She will maybe take a oz. When the clocks went back she was trying to wake up for the day at 4.30am!! Luckily I've managed to get that back a bit later. I cant wait for this phase to end. Feels like it's never going to happen

Biscuitsandteaplease · 27/11/2019 13:30

Following with interest as my DS is approaching the same age and also loves his dummy (and so do we as it settles him wonderfully Grin)

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