Hi all.
18 month old has had a dummy since 6 weeks as it massively helped with reflux.
She has it for cot time and the car seat.
She's been fine with it, she wants it during the day if she sees it but we never give it except at bed time and nap time (usually car seat!)
She has this last week been going down fine, but in the night wakes up... Looks around throws every dummy out the cot (we put lots in) and cries till we go in and replace. 90% of the time she just goes back to sleep. If it's early she will just lie with them for 10 minutes and repeat till we go in or get her up!
She sleeps about 12 hours a night and this has happened a couple nights now on and off apart from the minutes she's up she goes back fine. She knows exactly what she's doing but what's odd is we give her not attention / interaction, literally walk in replace and leave.. About 6 seconds!
If we were to leave her to learn "once they're gone they're gone" do you think this would work? The other option is to go cold turkey and remove all together. We had planned the dummy fairy a bit later in life! The big worry is that she nearly always has the dummy in car seat, awake or not, we travel a lot! So could we remove from night time cot but leave in car and then remove car?
Any ideas welcome. Please help!
Thanks