Baby can’t/wont keep dummy in?! Help!

So my LO is 11 weeks old and has had a dummy since she was about 2 weeks old as she was very colicky and it helped to sooth her. She only has it for sleep but she is very reliant on it to fall asleep (we’ve managed the last few nights to not offer it again throughout the night with mostly success). However, she seems to either struggle to keep it in when going to sleep, or just doesn’t want to - I must’ve put it in 30 times this evening as she kept spitting it out. She’s started sucking her hands recently and I feel like she’d rather do this as she’s trying to get to them in the Love to Dream swaddle but she’s then knocking the dummy out and crying for it! It’s driving me insane and I don’t know what to do! We’ve tried multiple brands and it doesn’t seem to make a difference…

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My babies the exact same age and hes the same honestly i have to hold it in for him until he’s in a deep sleep. Sucking his hands all time we had to take him out of love to dream swaddle because hes started rolling and hes either got hand in mouth or having to hold dummy in.

To be honest it’s probably not going to get better until they are much much more older and can pick it up and put it back in themselves no matter what brand you use it’s pretty much the same, if can self soothe with hands I would try do that one instead

Could it be that they’ve potentially outgrown the dummy size? We had to up the size of my LO’s dummy to the 6-18m size super early because the 0-2/0-6m was simply too small for him and he got irritated a lot by the fact he just couldn’t hold onto it. As soon as we swapped the size he was straight back to living it.
Also could be that there’s not any way for her to latch onto it properly. We had this for a bit before we figured out that if he doesn’t have grab hold of it properly it would just plop straight out and he was back to wriggling around fussing. Now we have to angle it a particular way and hold it there for a min whilst he would latch onto it fully.
Hope this helps, best of luck :)

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