Dummies/Pacifers
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following as my nearly 6 month old has just taken to a dummy in the last couple of weeks but is sleeping worse than she ever has done🙈x
@A.R. how is he during the day without it? i feel like my little girl was such a nightmare in the day when we didn’t use a dummy and i’d dread going out due to her kicking off if she wasn’t on the boob, but she was a better sleeper and better to settle, now she’s a dream during the day and i don’t have to worry about her kicking off while we’re out and puts a lot less pressure off me as i EBF but now she’s worse at night x
He is good during the day. Like he still sometimes fights naps for no apparent reason but it still takes significantly less time for him to fall asleep now than when he had the dummy (coz he kept knocking it out of his mouth). The dummy was great when he was a newborn as he had a really strong suck reflex and had a tendency to over feed so we substituted the dummy for the bottle at the end of each feed to stop that and it was great for the first 4.5 months to get him to settle to sleep but it just wasn’t working anymore for us and was making nap times a nightmare.
I weaned my son off the dummy last week. It was becoming a nightmare at naps as he kept knocking it out of his mouth and crying for it meaning it could take 45 mins to an hour just to get him to settle for a 30 min nap. I was losing my mind! We went cold Turkey and I won’t lie it was a tough few days/nights but after three days he didn’t seem to miss it anymore and definitely after a week he was going down for naps and bed more easily. We are also nowhere near sleeping through the night with 1-2 feeds every night