CC & Dummies

[Pobblebonk]

Hi! How are you?

I'm just wondering if any of you guys who use CC, if your babies have dummies?

My DS has a dummy and I use CC with him and it's nearly been a week and it takes about 20-30 of letting him cry 5 mins, go in and settle, let him cry 5 mins, etc etc.

If I took the dummy away, it would be like starting all over again. But it would mean that if he woke up, he wouldn't need to rely on having his dummy to put him back to sleep.

He's nearly 11 months old. I'd like to take the dummy off him too.

[Seekrit]

Once as he learns to settle without a dummy, when he wakes up the general hope is that bubs will resettle as in that sleep cycle they didn't have a dummy.
But I know this doesn't always happen.. heh.

[Mrs Potts]

We did CC with DS and he had a dummy. It definitely makes it harder though it is possible.

If you've not been CCing for long, I'd probably be inclined to lose the dummy and start from scratch because, as Seekrit said, he will resettle easier if he didn't need the dummy to settle in the first place (if the dummy has gone AWOL in his sleep).

Good luck.

[sarah81]

We have done CC with both our DS's as it got to the point where they couldn't settle at all really. They both had a dummy. I threw it out when we started and haven't looked back.

All the books I read about CC methods say get rid of all sleep aids like dummies etc when you start CC. But this doesn't include a comforter like a teddy etc.

Good luck with the CC it is hard but worthwhile in the end. The first night they sleep 12hours is wonderful :thumbsup:

[cwsmum]

I'd get rid of the dummy :yes: just don't make the same mistake I did and let bub get into the habit of going to bed with a bottle (if bub is bottle fed). I threw DS's dummy out when he was 13mths old coz he got dermatitis from it rubbing, but somehow we ended up replacing it with the bottle and DS was waking up once, sometimes twice, a night and couldn't get back to sleep without a bottle. The night I stopped giving him the bottle was the first night he slept thru...he was 2.5 :o
A friend has just stopped giving her DD a dummy and she said that from the first night that she went to sleep without it she has slept thru :D

[Pobblebonk]

Hi guys. Thanks for all of your advice. We're at the stage of CC now that I put DS in cot, pat, walk away, he starts crying, I wait 5 mins and go back in and pat, and walk away while he is awake and he might start crying again but generally he'll put himself to sleep.

I'm worried about having to do it all again without a dummy. He does like his dummy. And he will go ballistic without it. He does wake at night or what I call having a whinge in his sleep but he seems to find his dummy himself and go back to sleep. Last night I didn't get up to him at all until 5am when he woke up. I did hear him but I waited to see what he did and he was fine.

Argh! I don't know what to do! I don't want to go back to having to take 1 hour before he'll go to sleep.

And also, he goes to daycare 2 days a week and with grandparents 1 day a week...

[Rhys'Mum]

My little man wouldn't take a dummy so I can't really comment on that aspect, but he did need to be wrapped and I was petrified of taking it off him so I understand the fear.

While you might find long term it is better to lose the dummy you do still need to look at whats right for you now. Sounds to me if he can find it on his own and resettle himself its not a huge problem for the moment.

If it makes it easier given where you are at and what you've been going through then you could keep the dummy and deal with it later. Lots of little ones have dummys and sleep just fine, they give it away when they are ready, so if you decide to keep it don't feel bad. But you may also find it doesn't really set you back too far, I was surprised how quickly the little man coped with not wrapping, turns out I feared losing the sleep 'crutches' much more than he did.