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Self soothing

So, this maybe a stupid question.. I have gone cold turkey tonight without a dummy as it’s making my little girl wake more than normal, i have looked up many sleep training methods and came across the ferber method.. Anyway, my little girl is EBF and has been using a dummy to settle at night which obviously is personally a big no no, she’s been waking when she’s realised it’s not in her mouth, so tonight i’ve gone cold turkey and got rid, she went down fine but woke up about an hour and a half ago and has been screaming since , i just realised her last feed was 3.5 hours ago, so i fed her as i thought maybe she’s hungry.. Anyway, if she wakes up every 2.5-3 hours is this still normal for a 6 month old to feed that often in the night? i worry if i feed her every single time she wakes then i’m just going to go back to square one and she’ll never know how to settle herself but also don’t want to starve her.. anyone going through the same? I hope this makes sense lol (i’m tired)

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A sleep regression is totally normal at 6 months old. We're going through it at the moment too but she'll get there. I'd question whether you're trying to train her out of the dummy too soon if she's waking even more frequently without it but that's your call 😊

@Sarah hey so she’s not waking more frequent without it! she’s waking just the same but obviously settling not as well and taking longer to go down, which is to be expected

@Sarah also not sure if it’s a regression or she’s just not a great sleeper at this point as this has been going on for MONTHS🤷🏽‍♀️but she obviously doesn’t know how to self settle anymore, and taking away the dummy after speaking to multiple people has actually been a hard decision to make personally.

She could be teething, that could be contributing to the sleep issue possibly. Hope things improve for you soon!

I think I would try not to feed her more than you usually would at night otherwise you’re replacing the dummy with your breast and that’s not going to help you long term. That being said if your child is screaming you gotta do what you gotta do. I went cold Turkey with the dummy with my son when he was 5.5 month because he was taking ages to settle with it (he kept knocking it out of his mouth then crying for it). The first few nights/naps are hard but it does get better pretty quickly at this age. You should see a noticeable improvement after day 3 and after a week LO will forget the dummy ever existed Good luck! It’s a hard few days but worth it in my experience if the dummy is no longer working for you and your baby

Also just to add (and it was something I didn’t think of til after we got rid of the dummy) but if your LO is still sleeping in your room and you’re planning to move her to her own room in the near future it would be great if she wasn’t relying on the dummy as it’s not so easy to be popping it in her mouth when she’s in a different room

@A.R. thank you so much! yes she just kept waking for the dummy at night and i noticed she just couldn’t settle herself back without it, we also want to try getting her in her own room soon and definitely can’t do that while she’s still waking every hour!

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