HI all..
Just thought I'd pop in cause I'm feeling a little bit like "mean mummy" and need to vent!
We decided, after 2 nights of going in to put the dummy in 100 times before the overtired boy managed to get to sleep, that its time to take the dummy away!
We also think it may be the reason he's grazing on his bottles rather than feeding properly as he's using the bottles as a dummy rather than as a food source!

SO...today for his arvo sleep (mind you he'd hit overtired by then....) I decided to start with the no dummy rule.
He was overtired so before I even decided that he screamed for 20 minutes!, After I got him to actually latch on to the dummy, I let him have it til he calmed, then took it off him and patted him til he was very quiet and quite dozey then I left him, and after talking to himself for 20 minutes he dropped off to sleep. He's been asleep an hour and 45 now and ha re-settled himself twice without me going in...he's wrapped with one arm out, and is laying on his taggie...I don't mind him doing that cause it doesn't involve us intervening!
The big test will be tonight....I feel awful as I know he likes his dummy, but he really was only given one because of his reflux, and now that thats sorted (and he keeps spitting it out anyway) I think its time for it to go. I read somewhere that habits for requiring dummy's etc form between 4 and 5 months, so if we can get rid of it before then that would be good!

Anyway...this mean mummy is off to check on her little man (I've done it about 10 times already cause I feel so awful, but its not like he's sobbing in his sleep like they do when they are really really upset...I just need to re-assure myself that he's ok!)...
Thanks for reading/listening!!!