We had to force Tommy to give up the dummy and learn to settle himself. I thought he was waking for a feed but turns out he was crying cause he woke up and couldn't put himself back to sleep. Now that he's without a dummy he has learnt to put himself to sleep without any other aids and when he wakes in the middle of the night he may cry for a little while but then is able to go off again and sleep through. Unfortuantely to teach him this we did have to let him cry though in the beginnig, but it was well worth it. I just thought of it as giving him tools to help himslef rather than being cruel. We haven't looked back. If you want more details on how we did it - let me know.