JOMARIE _ I too was told in hossy to give Claudia a dummy & I declined for a couple of reasons but the main one being that Jessica had a dummy & most of the times I had to get up during the night was to pop the dummy back into her mouth. I took it off her at 12 months & she never asked for it again, but so far Claudia has gone without a dummy. I don't even have one on stand-by. I found at times I thought she was comfort sucking, but you can tell the difference to them sucking & taking down milk & just sucking for the heck of it. Claudia is a big feeder & snacker during the day but she is going down for up to 7 hours at a time at night, so I'm not fussed about feeding her continually during the day as it gives me some peace at night!

I'll be interested to see what you end up doing & what outcomes you end up getting because Alan is starting to give me the pips about giving her a dummy because today we were in the car a bit (about 4 short trips) & she played up in the car & he reckons a dummy would have stopped that, however, she was getting hungry & wide awake when we put her in the car & as soon as I got her out & fed her she was great.

Sorry, I have just turned this post into being all about me! LOL, sorry, wasn't an intention!

Love Jayne xox