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Hi, All advice or experiences welcome please :)
My first DD i breast fed to sleep (no dummy) and I am expecting my second soon. As I will be chasing a toddler around I am trying to look at settling options (of course this assumes this baby will take a dummy lol!). Is a dummy more manageable than feeding to sleep???
Thanks for your help.
I did feed/play/sleep with my first and found it SO much easier to feed to sleep with my second. Neither of mine took a dummy.
I know that doesn't really answer your question, except that I found feeding to sleep to be the easiest way to go with my second. Particularly once she got to a couple of months old. I could put on a show for Natty, dash off to feed Phoebs to sleep, then come back as the show was finishing in time to do some sort of activity with Nat. It didn't always work that smoothly but mostly did (and still does!).
All the best!
ETA: Phoebe does still wake at least once a night for a feed. But there are cons with the dummy too I'm led to believe - you could be up every 40 minutes to replace the dummy. Although this would be less of a problem if you room in or co-sleep.
I agree with Snacks! DD1 did feed/play/sleep and she found her thumb - but really has been a crap sleeper. DD2 I fed to sleep and we used a dummy straight after the feed. She demand fed also rather than sticking to a prescribed routine. She is much easier to settle and sleep than #1. Good luck!