Is removing the dummy ultimately sleep training?

[LynseyH23]

I have a 4 month almost 5 month old who has a dummy mainly for sleep. I pop the dummy in and can place her into her cot or bassinet in the stroller and she nods off usually to sleep on her own with the dummy. Happy days.

However, when she wakes up I obviously need to run to replace it to get her back to sleep. My older 2.5 year old still has it and when he wakes in the night cries for it so we still sometimes have to find it for him. We are trying to get rid of it, nightmare.

My question is, wanting to avoid the dummy run long term, if I remove it now from
her, how would I get her to go to sleep? Surely I would need to implement another sleeping association like rocking or patting which involves me which is worse no? Otherwise, what? I let her cry and don’t aid her which is ultimately sleep training no?

When people say they got rid of the dummy at a young age they ultimately sleep trained if they didn’t help them back to sleep? I don’t want to sleep train.

I avoided the whole issue by dumping 4 or 5 dummies in the cot. That way baby can always find one by herself. But yes we did have the shorter term pain of dummy run before she was able to reliably grab and put it in her mouth.

But if you do want to get rid then potentially you could use white noise or a specific teddy (after 6 months) as a sleep cue. Or a specific type of sleeping bag maybe but that would be hard on the move. Personally we didn't find the other options as helpful or quick at resettling and mostly they still involve having to get up.