weaning/getting rid of the dummy

How do I get DD to sleep with out the dummy?
Im not willing to let her CIO, but am after any other suggestions

I have no personal advice because DS still uses his dummy, but have you had a look at The Sleepstore Website? Here is the link to their dummy weaning section - Dummy Weaning

The amount of times I have recommended this website you'd think I have shares in it.. I don't haha, but LOVE their advice section

I hope you find something that works!

Coming from me, a mother who was NEVER going to use a dummy, our wee man was given one in NICU to help his muscle development and then later we used it to help with reflux (side note: Godsend!!). We decided it wasn't such a bad thing, for the first few months some babies just have that physiological need to suckle and it helped. And criticism from friends... I learnt how to tell people I love to eff off

What worked for us? I bought 'the wrong dummy' to take on holiday with us when he was about 9 or 10 months old and only got one for sleeping, he screamed whenever we came near with it, so we ended up unintentionally going cold turkey!

Do what works for you, and good luck.

Don't know the pantley method so sorry I can't help there.

With Amelia, we were swaddling her until she was about 11 months old so the dummy tended to stay in because she didn't move a lot. When we stopped swaddling she was old enough to try and find it herself.

My older child never used a dummy but basically we had to go with CIO until she found her thumb to suck.

I would suggest that you try to encourage thumb sucking if you don't want to contunie with the dummy (they seem to need some sucking comfort at that age for a bit) and maybe look at controlled crying.

All the best

Good luck! DS was 12 months old when we decided it was time to wean him off the dummy - he was waking a lot at night because it had fallen out and was too lazy/tired to put it back in. We waited for a time when we knew he wasn't teething/sick and went cold turkey. The first sleep was a night one and he went down really well (he usually does though) - my worry was the day sleeps. And to be honest it was waaaay easier than i thought. Of course there was crying but I think the longest it lasted was about 20 mins. I'd go in every 10 to check. And by the third day he was going down with minimal crying (no longer than a minute or two). A friend of mine also tried cold turkey and she had a similar experience. BUT, I know not all babies are the same so I'd recommend going with what you feel is best! You'll know better than anyone

Lol after rejecting the dummy for the first 5.5 months Lily finally took one only to reject it about 2 weeks ago! She won't have a bar of it! Not sure why though... GL!

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Sheza wrote: It was annoying having to put my kids dummies back in, but they soon learnt to put it back in themselves at aboit 5 or 6 months

Gosh, that would have been nice. DD only got a dummy at about 6 months cos she was such a terrible settler and I wanted something to help her at daycare. But she's now 9.5 months and still doesn't often find it herself

We are going cold turkey when DH gets back from Aussie, cos I'm picking things will get worse before they get better so I'm not gonna attempt it by myself.