Sleep!!

My baby slept through from 9 weeks and I thought yay I’ve got a good sleeper. It the last 4 weeks she’s needed me to put her dummy back in every hour or two through the night. From 5am will come into bed with me until 7ish otherwise won’t go back to sleep. Anyone else? When will it end?! I’m exhausted

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Could be a late 4 months sleep regression?

I’m having the same issue with the dummy but it seems to be from around 3am (unless I don’t hear it so much in the night) he can sleep without his dummy so I’m wondering if it’s teething pain that’s waking him up? I then put his Ewan back on and his dummy in and he seems to go back down- I’d like to stop this habit though as when he’s in his own room it’s not so easy to just lean over and put it back in lol

This is the same as my little girl. From about 2/3 weeks old so slept through and now she can be up several times in the night when her dummy falls out 🙄 last night was the first night that I tried putting her down without cuddling her to sleep and I think she would’ve gone down better if she could put her own dummy in as she kept dropping it out her mouth when she started to doze off. Xx

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