dummies and self settling..

Might seem like a dumb question(or several ) but I'm asking anyway..

In regards to the dummy i tried the crying method ..mostly CC..and it didn't work..mind you i did only try for 30 mins three times as for me he's just too young to let him cry it out..so I am fine with him still having his dummy... :)

anyway take last night..bed at 7 asleep till 1210 then i tried to replace dummy twice but by the third time he was hungry so got him up and back to bed and asleep by 1am.. and then sleep till 330am and then he woke up..still dog tired..and it took 3 dummy replacements to get him to go back to sleep till 630..he wasn't hungry and rocking doesn't really work..so short of getting rid of the dummy (which I would like to keep if it didnt involve me getting up and putting it back in a million times) what can i do to get him to stay asleep..he's obviously tired waking in a sleep cycle and needing dummy to resettle.

How do i get him to settle himself? I have a dummy chain but it says don't use it in bed:( Dreamfeeding the few times i tried it resulted in him throwing up at 4am or waking properly for a feed and taking ages to resettle..doesn't seem to make him sleep longer:( and he is often up at 1030 or so anyway(half the time) but asleep every night by 7pm.. most other babies i know can self settle and are at least doing many nights through(i realise only half of all babies sleep properly right through at his age) if he wakes cause he's hungry that's fine it's the other waking that is a pain!:)

So you still have the dummy replacement thing then Nikki?

I am having a bit the same problem foxxy - Luke has started waking at around 5am.  He doesn't cry, he's not hungry, wet or pooey... He is AWAKE! If I catch him in time, I can put the dummy in and he will go back to sleep - but he used to sleep through until 6.30! I don't what is happeneing, he has just decided to drive me up the wall... Anyway, we decided not to replace the dummy and hopefully wean him off waking - but it hasn't worked so far - he talks for around 45minutes and then finally falls back to sleep...

So I can't really help, but am with you...

bel thanks.... if it was just once wouldnt bother me so much but it can be 3-4 times a night and I'm getting no sleep and DH no help as i can get up (with monitor next to his head) and he doesnt hear him and by the time he's up he's so unsettled i just have to do it myself..i cant just leave him to grizzle etc like i do in the day as it would wake DH up 4 months with only 3 sleeps of more than 7 hours is really getting to me:(

yes...i;ve tried three times..first time screaming:( for 15 mins then i put it back in straight asleep...second time....(arm out) less noise just grizzling left him 30 mins(cause if i go in he just laughs) and still wide awake.. and same third time.. i tried to put it in this time he laughed straight away so i left one arm unwrapped and walked out..been about 20 mins i can hear him sucking his hand and talking..lol..but no crying at least..

OMG after that first time i just left and he has gone to sleep by himself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!thanks kebakat will have a look.. yes cold turkey seems to be the best option:( just wish there was another way.. !!

yeah i definitely learn better by seeing..is he too young for a taggie? he has one..

I wrapped Daniels taggie in with his hands while he was still wrapped. But then I also wrapped very loosely and backwards so that he could get his hands to his mouth to suck on them.

If you pop a wipe or the taggie on his face, does he move it? Once I saw him do that, I was fine with him having it. I've never seen him asleep with it on top of his face so that it would affect his breathing Plus if its a smallish one it won't smother him anyway.

I have dreams of ditching the dummy but it really isnt too big an issue for us.  We dont have to replace it often....usually it is in those first few fighting sleep minutes when the dummy gets THROWN across the room.  Otherwise he seems to know where it is most of the time.  If he is unsettled we will always put the dummy in to get him back to sleep and that is when a glow in the dark one would be good.

 

Yesterday the little bugger crawled off down to his room, found his dummy and reappeared inthe kitchen with it!  I normally dont allow it out of the bedroom but figured, while dummy in mouth, catfood not

cuppatea wrote: Nope in actual fact he was wrapped and then his arms were also strapped down in the safety sleep if I didn't he would wriggle out of his wrap and then attack his face and not go to sleep. I just stopped wrapping him cold turkey at 7 months and he was fine.

Had Karitane nurse today at plunket and she suggested I not wrap Rohann any more, even when I explained the only time she wakes when she isn't 'scheduled' to is when she has 1 or mre arms out and has them fling around her head. So I've just given it a go, and she slept for 1 hour then woke sreaming! Has taken me ages to settle her back down (and she still isn't sleeping). So who knows on the wrapping thing.