Using dummy only for night settles?

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I have a 4 month 1 week old. Formula fed.

is it possible to only use a dummy for night time resettles? She naps independently and does nice long naps. And she goes to sleep by sucking her thumb/fingers and alone. I don’t want to take that independent sleep away from her.

But at night if she wakes she can’t get back to sleep without sucking. patting rocking and sshing don’t work. I end up feeding her putting her down . She wakes as I put her down. I feed her (a few sucks) put her down. She wakes this goes on for an hour till she’s finally asleep. She’s using the bottle as a dummy which is fine but should I just use a dummy instead?! She’s then not interested in milk. This happened twice last night on both her wakes up.

im aware 2 wake up are not bad but she’s up for an hour in both. I know this is all part of the regression but I’m wondering if introducing a dummy into these wakes would help or make things worse?

my concerns with dummy are

dummy runs every time she wakes. Will she wake more for it?

needing to use dummy for naps and going to sleep

using a dummy when she is actually hungry and not feeding her when I should (I think she only needs one night feed as the nights she has 2 she refuses morning milk)

taking dummy away at a later date causing a drama

thank u!

The dummy is always a controversial one isn't it? I had a older mom told me that I wont know when my baby is hungry cuz I'm always giving him a dummy. The Lie detector test determined that was a LIE. I always knew when my kid was hungry.

There is a potential that she may wake when the dummy drops out, mine did a once a twice at night but it was just a matter of popping it back in.

3 years on, no longer uses it and it wasn't hard weaning him from it. I literally just stopped giving it him and he co-operated.

But every baby is different, I must say so it may go different for you.