How to wean off dummy?

[Squishyluna95]

My lo is 4 months old and he’s had a dummy for last couple months. He’s never been a huge fan of it but would accept one when tired but would spit out once asleep.

This last week he’s started crying for dummy, I’ll put it in his mouth then he will turn over onto his side and spit it out again. Within 20 seconds he’s looking at me smiling then moaning he wants it back.. then repeats this for at least like 30 mins🙄

I feel like I should take it away I can’t keep doing this all night I’m getting barely any sleep but I don’t know how else to help settle him

Any advice?

Cold turkey was all that worked for us but my son was two so we could explain to him why the dummy was going.

It might work at four months if your baby isn’t that wedded to the dummy however! That young they’ll have forgotten it ever existed after a night or so.

Personally I'd just ride it out. Lots of babies don't sleep well anyway, you could take it away and they might continue to wake up for many months and it would be worse without the dummy to settle them. My 9mo is still a horrendous sleeper, and he's sadly never taken a dummy. My DC1 and DC2 both had dummies and were much better sleepers. We had this issue too as you've described but it didn't last that long and eventually they can mostly find their dummy themselves and then you can sleep better. My kids had Sleepytot teddies with 4 dummies attached so they could find them easily as they got a big bigger.