Baby relying on dummy at night

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Looking for some advice

Our boy is just over 4 months and since dropping his night feed he has been waking up multiple times through the night for his dummy to be reinserted. We assumed it was part of the 4 month sleep regression however are now getting a bit concerned we are creating a sleep crutch 😳. We started off being up only a few times, now it can be around 10. If we let him wake, he’s fully awake and not looking for a feed nor drink es he have any intentions of going back to sleep!

Having looked online it seems fairly common and there’s varying advice on how to overcome it. Did anyone on here have the same issue and if so, what did you do?

is this part of the 4 month sleep regression and he’ll grow out of it or are we creating an issue? Is there a chance it might improve when he starts in solids?

I am not interested in the cry it out method although not opposed to very gentle sleep training if there’s no suitable alternatives

My lo went through that stage. He’s 15 months now and sleeps through fine.
We didn’t do anything in particular, just gave him his dummy back and comforted him when he did wake.
One thing that did help though was not rushing to him at the first noise but waiting til he actually started crying or was definitely awake. I found that when I was rushing to him as soon as he made a noise I was actually waking him up.