Dummies

I know we were kind of talking about dummies not that long ago but I am having trouble with Hannah and her dummy. Initially she only using it when she is up to settle her when she starts to get tired (or if we are out in public!), then she would settle herself to sleep after about 10 mins or so. Now she screams blue murder when she is put down during the day (shes ok at night and doesnt need it which is a start I suppose!) and doesnt nap well. I usually leave her if I know everything is ok but go in after about 10 mins and give her a cuddle - she makes out like she is hungry but if I try feeding her she just plays around and falls asleep. She just wants to suck, hence the dummy, but if I give it to her in bed she wakes up and screams when it falls out. Have tried pulling it out before she goes in to a deep sleep with moderate success, but she still often wakes up not long after.

I really want her to be able to settle herself to sleep - which she was doing - but she gets into such a state she wouldnt sleep anyway. Maybe she is just trying me out! Anyway, sorry for the long post, but any thoughts would be most appreciated.

re the dummy - i saw something on tv the other week (think it was tv anyway) that said up to 6 months a baby can be taken off a dummy without any worries, after that they start to get attached as a comforter and it can be harder to get rid of them.

my other thought may be that bub isnt tired or is too tired when you are putting her down. i know if toby is too tired he wont settle and has very little sleep when he does eventually nod off

lol Ana, I have basically come to the same conclusion re the dummy and sanity! So far today I have given her the dummy to settle her and put her to bed, then very, very slowly eased the dummy out of her mouth and she has stayed asleep - fingers crossed. I dont mind doing it so much during the day, luckily she just goes straight back to sleep in the night. And yep, we'll cross the dummy weaning bridge when we come to it as well!

Re the dairy allergy, the doc said leave it for a few weeks and see how things go before we think about cutting out my dairy.

yeha my sons settles too sleep wraped and with a dummy he had a heria in his groin and it was,nt found and fixed till he was 7 weeks old there for it,s a comfort thing for him i have found that the dummy will just fall out of his mouth when he is asleep most of the timei havefound it is wind that keeps him awake so maybe it could be wind

have you thought of wrapping her so that her hand is out? just when you think you have it sorted, they go and change on you and all we can do is adapt and start all over again.. what works for a while won't necessarily work forever, sadly.    You may not want to but you could try introducing a cuddly.. sounds icky but both my girls took to cuddling up with their cuddlies and would suck away on the cuddlies arm or ear... of course makes ure it's a safe one that doesn't have bits that could come loose, or long fur... nothing worse than a kid with hairballs, lolol. That's about all i can think of right now.

totally off subject really, kinda... anyway. speaking of comfort suckers... Ayja is WEIRD!!! now, i dunno if it's normal, but both my girls had/have a fascination for tickets/tags, you know the white ones on every soft toy's bottom. i never cut them off like most probably do so maybe i am alone in this, but Ayja is just crazy, you put a bib on her and she knows exactly where the tag on it is (even though it's underneath) and will bring it up to suck in her mouth. she will not even take it out long enough to have food put in there. she automatically turns all toys over to find the tag to suck on, and even paris, stil has her tag on her bunny cuddly, and she runs that between two of her fingers to lull herself to sleep.
Anyway, ayja has now started to do weird sucking things like she's sucking her tongue, if she even SEES and tag, or if shes sitting playing with a toy, flicking the tag back and forth, she will suck her tongue at the same time... like she's just thinking about if she had that tag in her mouth. It seriously weirds me out! she does the same when sitting on my knee, if she's facing me she will face dive put her head on my chest and do the sucking thing then too. she does it when she's going to sleep as well, even if there is nothing near her mouth - i seriously wonder if maybe she SHOULD have had a dummy - definately too late to introduce one now, have gone so long without and don't want to go thru the weaning thing like we had to with paris. Crazy child.

LOLOL - Janine I almost choked on the cracker I was eating cos I was laughing! I can just picture it!
Hmm, may be a growth spurt, though this has been going on for the past few days...

ha ha Jake is a tag sucker as well, so you aren't alone Janine. He also likes to suck my cheek, chin, arm, shoulder (leaves hickeys almost)and of course, his big fave, his thumb..

hehe janine that sounds so cute!
jack has always had a fascination with tags also. the first thing he does when he gets something new is look for the tag to suck on, strange kids we have eh!

i thought iwas alone in that james is totaly focesd on the tags on anything its so funny to watcth even if it donst have a tag he looks for oneits so funny he also does the tougue suxy thing but he love to blow rasberrys it just cracks me up

Oh, and I meant to second Janine's advice about wrapping with Hannah's hands out. It just means that she has a bit of freedom to grab etc. The only downside (depending on how bit her cot is) that when she does the reflex where she throws out her armss (often while in sleep) she may wake herself up if she hits the side of the cot.

I wrap Han with her arms up around her face so that she can suck them or whatever.
Actually, past tense, used to wrap. Little mongrel is too squirmy now and somehow manages to wriggle out without disturbing her wrappings at all. It's kinda creepy like she's shed her shell or something... anyway, I digress.