Should I move my baby into his own room when I take away his dummy or do it later on?

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My boy is 5mo and until 2 weeks ago was sleeping roughly from 7/8 through to 4/5, having an occasional feed or going straight back to sleep if I gave him a dummy. Then bang - an ear infection for a week. Now he is well but is now wanting fed 2 or 3 times a night and is waking repeatedly looking for his dummy when it falls out. Some of his feeds are more to do with him being awake and unable to settle rather than being genuinely hungry. So I'm thinking of going cold turkey on the dummy. However, he sleeps in his carrycot next to our bed and has done so since birth. We would like to move him into his own cot in his own room - not least because he is now too long to fit comfortably in the carrycot. So should I combine the two changes and get all the trauma over in one go or do it in stages? I would really appreciate some advice from you wise Mumsnetters who've been there!

I would take away thr dummy first and see how that goes

dont deprive him of the both at once.
TBH he is only 5 months old so there is no real need to take the dummy away. DS 'lost' his at 2 years old and accepted it without fuss.
Could he possibly be hungry? Have you tried BLW?

I really don't want to scare you but the latest research wrt SIDs seems to suggest that a baby who may be used to a dummy during sleep not having their dummy one night can be more at risk.

It's all a bit hard to see what the actual results mean but they say the babies that were at higher risk were ones that didn't have their dummy at their last sleep.

So if you're going to be moving baby out of your room, and therefore not as likely to hear breathing etc I'd keep the dummy for a while.

Thanks ladies. Posieflump - I had wondered if I should put his carrycot in the cot to make things feel a bit more normal but maybe it's a step too far. It's becoming an issue because in the night he's beginning to jam his head aginst the top of the carrycot because there's no room now. Hmm.
Sqimlet - I don't mind him having a dummy at all. His big sis had hers until she was 3, then Santa gave her a Disney Cinderella laptop in return for posting all her dummies to Rudolph. The problem is that I'm fairly sure that although it helps him get to sleep the constant falling out in the night is disturbing his sleep. He's too young to put it back himself so I either get up numerous times or wait until he's old enough to do it himself - which could be many months of no sleep for either of us.