weaned dummy now catnapping

[7Alley7]

so... we weaned the dummy :yelclap:... this has not been easy and now she's back to catnapping during the day and is soooo over tired. 3 30 min sleeps just doesn't cut it??? What to do? :(

[BabelFish]

So if you don't mind if I ask - why did you wean her dummy? How old is she?

[7Alley7]

6.5 months, and because she was waking heaps during the night and not being able to resettle without it. result = one tired baby and mummy. Her routine before was 40 min morning, about 1.5 - 2 hrs lunch and 40 min arvo! Now 30, 30 and 30!

[MooMum]

We also had this problem of DS loosing dummy during the night and many a night up and down putting it back in! We considered weaning and never quite got there, he very quickly learned to put the dummy back in himself and we started leaving a few in the cot so he could find one! Now he only has it to sleep and it comforts him. I know we'll have to get rid of it eventually but I can't see a problem with it at the moment. Each to their own!! Goodluck!

[BabelFish]

Oh wow - you poor thing how annoying. But yes I've heard that if you leave a few in the cot they can work out how to put them back in themselves. Lol. My `What to Expect The First Year' book tells me that it's pretty much ok for kids to have a dummy up until they're about five when they usually self-wean, and it's not a psychological issue at all - rather it's just a comfort for them and that's ok. DD doesn't have a dummy (won't take one for love or money) but if she did that would be ok - it's only society that frowns upon it for some unknown reason and if you don't care about that (and you shouldn't) then I don't see why your DD can't have a dummy if she can learn how to put it back in herself.

Have you tried another sort of soother? Like one of those square rattle thingys with ribbon trim? Apparently they are really good.

[mummy7]

I had the same problem w ds losing his dummy throughot the night and I felt as if I was getting upto him ten zillion times a night and was so............. tired!!:sleeping: His day sleep was very similar except w out the late arvo nap and he also started cat napping but after about a week of patchy daily sleep he ended up going back to his routine of daily sleep :yelclap: I dont have a problem w dummy's at all!! But I found it was not the best thing for my ds as it was waking him non stop every time he lost his dummy throughout the night :no: (and mum was tired too....) Once the dummy was gone I never looked back and neither did ds :)
Goodluck :flowerz:

[BabelFish]

Yeah I don't have an issue with them either but am glad that DD doesn't want one - just makes life easier in that one small way!

[mummy7]

lol it was u I was replying 2 anyway hehe : ) hehehe...