Dummies!!!!

Hi Ladies

Jayden has the Nuk dummies which so far Ive found stay in the best...I was just using them for sucking time and when he cried but now he has it to sleep in the hammock (sleeps in hammock during the day and bassinet at night) but the trouble is hes really bad at keeping it in! and wakes if it falls out but crys if I dont give it to him to sleep!!!! its fine in the hammock as the position hes in it pretty much stays in by itself but the last two nights when ive gone to put him back in the bassinet after the middle of the night feed hes screamed and screamed and looks for the dummy (mouthing etc) and settled when i give it to him but ive ended up putting him in bed with me so I can keep putting it back in until hes asleep......HELP! I dont want to get into a routine of having to keep putting it back in at night! .....what do others do? do they get better at keeping it in? do they wean themselves off it? what brands do other people find best? what should I do?

This sounds prob odd and Plunket might find it terrible but I am sick of this dummy business and cant get Brennan settled without SO I NOW....roll up a towel and kind of squash it in so that he is on his side and facing he towel and the towel kind of holds it in!...His nose is clear but its just enough to keep it balanced in there...I used to put a teddy by Blakes face to keep his in...

One lady I knew put a elastic thing on her sons dummy and tied it round his head!!!!

I have no useful advice, I gave up on the dummies and let the gremlins scream coz I got sick and tired of getting up and down a thousand times a night to put them back in!

We decided to go cold turkey with the dummy when Hannah went into her own room (at 5 months) as neither of us felt like trooping in a million times a night to replace it. We started slowly with not giving it to her during the day and once she was happy with that (took about a day and a half) we stopped it at night. That took a little longer, but she's happy without it now.
But I guess it depends if you still want him to have it or not.
We used Tommee Tippee ones, which didn't really fall out. But never tried any others, but I've heard good things about the NUK ones.

We use tommee tippee ones and found them the best for Soph.

I never used a dummy for ben and put up with months of rocking/shushing/going mad trying to make him sleep.

With Soph we gave her a dummy and no hour long walks in wind and rain to get her to day sleep, she sucks her dummy and goes off, yes maybe we have to go in sometimes and put it in but alot easier than walking in the pram.

In the night, she last night woke once at 2.30 for her dummy and went straight back to sleep, which I don't mind at all (at this age I was feeding ben 4-5 times a night to get him to go back to sleep arrrrr!!)

So thats my rant about dummies, I HATE them during the day, when I see kids playing with them in ,especially older toddlers ( mind you apparently I had mine until I was 3..) , but to settle them for naps and sleep I LOVE them. Ok rant over , good luck in making it stay in!

I persevered with putting the dummy back in when she asked for it until about 4-6mos when she figured out how to do it with her hands. I just had it clipped to her top at that point (had a little chain for it, not long enough to go around her neck) so it was easy for her to find.

Hayley loves her dummy at sleeptime. We have a NUK one. I do have to go in 1, 2 or 3 times to pop it back in, although last nught she was happy enough (and tired enough lol) to go to sleep without it!

i have advent ones and ive just bought some tommee tippee ones which are useless coz they too big even though they are foe 0-6 months. master R pushes them out all the eim then screams and screams till i put it back in but once he's asleep and it falls out he's fine.  my issue is when his mobile stops then he screams.