My 6mo wakes A Lot at night - like every 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Usually I feed him about every 4 hours and settle him with a dummy inbetween those feeds. He's usually fine to settle with a dummy if he's not hungry.
However I'm now trying to wean him off the dummy in the hope that that will help him learn to settle himself at night. I've managed all his naps today (4, because he only slept for 25 minutes each time) without using the dummy. But now I'm wondering what to do overnight.
I can't do what I've been doing in the daytime (saying 'shhh' and swaying his hammock, while playing rain noise, he grizzles and cries on and off for about 15 minutes) because a) I'll be too knackered and b) it'll wake everyone else up and DP is constantly ill with sleep deprivation and DS1(3) is a bad and light sleeper and awful if he gets woken. So until he's got the hang of getting to sleep on his own without the dummy, I'm going to need to either bf him or give him the dummy overnight.
I was doing the dummy as a step down from bfing, as I had terrible trouble nightweaning DS1 and wanted to avoid that again. But if I'm weaning him off it in the day, it seems silly to reintroduce it overnight. But ending up bfing him every 2 hours sounds like a bad idea too.
What would you do?