Dummy

[debz]

Any ideas/advice on weaning a 6 month old off the dummy for sleep?

Sometimes during the day she spits it out and can not get back to sleep until it is replaced.


During the night she is ok.

[Baby Girl]

My DD2 did this sometimes too. She is now 10 months and doesn't need her dummy at all anymore. She started to wean herself at about 8 months (spat it out as soon as I put it in), up until then I just perserved and kept going in to replace it, she would settle fine after that so it was no biggie for us.

Didn't really give any advice did I :rolleyes: She will give it up when she is ready, other than that she will learn to find it and put it back in herself at some stage.

[Boymum]

Hi debz,

My almost 6 month old has started to sleep on his tummy...he can roll so he finds this most comfy I guess....anyway ever since sleeping on his tummy he only calls out for his dummy if he's uncomfortable with his teething, otherwise he spits it out during his first sleep cycle and I rarely hear from him until 3-5am for his dummy or a cuddle (I don't mind). He used to call out for his dummy up to 6 times a night when he slep on his back.

During the day is a nightmare for sleeping/napping, but when he does...same thing, on the tummy and is fine without it. He does like to be coaxed off to sleep with rocking or bouncing and dummy though....then when I put him down he doesn't mind if it comes out so much anymore.

[mumslilspunks]

My ds has a dummy when going to sleep! Why do you feel you have to wean her from her dummy? They normally do it themselves when ready. How does she sleep when she has it?

[borntobemummy]

I have a fear that my DD will not wean hersef and get so addicted to her dummy that it will be hell ripping it away from her when she's older...let alone what it might be doing to her incomming teeth. I'm super keen to start weaning her now, but DH hates to hear hey cry and we end up fighting about giving her the dummy or not. I just don't know what to do???

[giggles]

I have the same fears.

After seeing my nephew still needing a dummy to get to sleep at 7 years of age, thats right, 7 YEARS OF AGE :eek: I am terrified that we willl have a problem here too (silly paranoid mother thoughts, because I know I would nver let that happen)

my DD is so comforted by it though and it's her sleep association so don't know what to do.

I would love to wean her from bottle and dummy around the 12 month mark so I will be reading this thread with interest to hear strategies.

[DB&O]

My DD used to have a dummy at bedtime & would often pull it out & then call for me to come put it back in, so @ 6 months I bit the bullet & just didn't give her her dummy at her morning sleep & then waited to see if she cried out for it. If she did & was still not asleep after 15 mins or so I would go in & give it to her but I found that after just 2 days of doing this she no longer cried out for her dummy at sleep time & would happily drift of to sleep. Aaahhh:D

Score 1 for mummy :thumbsup: