Dd has fallen asleep without her dummy

[blossomhill]

for the first time in 5 years. OMG if I had realised it would be that easy I would have done it ages ago. It did take her longer to settle though and all day she kept saying she was a baby still as I kept saying now you are 5 and a big girl you don't need your dummy! I have just checked in on her and she must have at least (no joke) 20 teddies in bed with her.

ah bless! Ds sleeps with a nemo and dory teddy (they are huge) a toy duck and two thomas engines! sometimes in the middle of the night I go in and his head is on one of the plastic engines! looks painful to me.
Hopefully you will be able to be dummy free - I am not brave anough to try this with ds yet!

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That's what I am worrying about, the middle of the night. She does sometimes search for it in the middle of the night, who knows? Will have to wait and see. It had to be done though.

Thankfully dd slept through the night without her dummy. Dd did ask for it as soon as she woke up but I told her that we had sent them to my neice and she just said "ohhhhh".
I really thought it was going to be so much harder.

hmmm - DD just turned 5, so this gives me courage to give it a try. On the other hand, our little ones have so much to deal with, what's really the problem with letting them have a dummy at night if they still get comfort from it?

TBH Tartegnin that's why I have left it to now as she is ready and thankfully it has worked out. Although I must confess they appear to be coming out from nowhere today. I turn round and dd has a dummy that she hasn't had for say a year. When I took it out and explained again that it was for my neice as she is such a big girl she seemed happy with that.
I wouldn't have tried it this time last year as dd was nowhere near ready and I doubt would have had the understanding to reason with her!
If it hadn't worked out and dd was distressed I would have just left it for another fews months. Mind you last night was only the first time so who knows what will happen tonight?

Blossomhill - your experience did make me try last night. Just before bedtime, I tried just quietly asking whether she might try sleeping without it. I explained dummies are for babies. She did think about it for a second or two, but said "no, but I'm not a baby". I didn't make an issue of it, but think I'll try that each night to see if it sinks in eventually.
In any event, congrats on your milestone - I'm sure you'll go back a forth a bit at first, but sounds like a sure success!

Talk about speak too soon. Last night we had absolute hysterics of "I am a baby" and dd just wouldn't settle. so..... guess what?....... we gave in as it's her first day back and she really needed a good nights sleep!!!! Will try again but maybe in a few weeks or so!

bless her BH