We’ve ditched the dummy-it’s so hard tho!

Saturday morning we did the Dummy Fairy thing and put the dummies out in the post box and explained to her that she's a big girl now in undies so doesn't need her "Nummy" anymore. All was fine, she gave the bag a kiss and said "byebye" and we made a big deal over what a big girl she was and how proud we were etc.

She asked for her nummy a few hours later and I asked her if she remembered where they had gone and she said "outside...gone! byebye nummies"

Then at bedtime we had 2 hours of full on crying (but she only asked for her dummy once )
She woke once at 2am and after half an hour of crying I took her back to our bed.
We had the same problem with her afternoon nap yesterday and DH ended up driving for over an hour to get her to sleep (even though we knew she was tired as she was falling asleep in the car on the way home from swimming class).

Last night was better (probably because that mean dummy stealing mummy was out with Auntie Emma ) but she managed to get out of bed, over the safety rail thingy and get under the cot looking for a dummy (they used to fall down the side and she obvioulsy remembered me getting under the cot to get them) - all this was whilst she was in her sleeping bag!
I think we all got about 3 hours sleep last night as nothing we did was helping. I tried just sitting there cuddling her and she was using all her force to push me away (so heart breaking!)

I really don't want to go back on the dummy thing for 2 reasons. I don't want her to think we lied to her and just took them away to be mean and I also don't want to have put her through 2 nights of unconsoleable upset for nothing

I hate seeing her like this, it reminded me of when she was tiny and had colic it was that kind of never-ending crying

What do I do now?!?!?

hang in there hun i was relly lucky that james self weaned at 1 of his dummy but this bottle biss is hard soo hang in there keep reminding her that the dummy fariys have taken it away and she will be fine

fattartsrock wrote: Stick with it, hun, it will get better. Did dummy fairy bring a toy?

No - mean aye!
Would rather not resort to bribery (for want of a better word). We didn't do anything with the TTing either, just lots of praise, kisses & cuddles.

Our dummy fairy returned a parcel to the mailbox for Hannah - it wasnt for bribery or whatever, more as a replacement for the dummy. She only had her dummy at bedtime, so Upsy Daisy took that place. Good luck, you've hopefully got over the worst of it now.

Good luck with it Toni, we are still having ours, if I mention that we are going to give it to the dummy fairy, she cries hard out and I can't stand it!

We decided to just let her continue to have them at home or in the car as its her comfort blanket type thing. We have been told she will grow out of it, but who knows when!!!

Oh I meant to say, with Ella we started using Mog for comfort in place of the dummy. When she'd cry for the dummy we'd snuggle her back down with Mog and use that as her cue for sleep.
It wasn't a bribe or anything, Mog had been around for ages and just happened to be in her bed on the night we started. The attachment has lasted though, she still sleeps with her

Sorry I haven't got any bright ideas, hope you have a breakthrough soon!

 

Sounds like you did a great job! Stick with it though, those crying nights will not last long. Is she getting any new teeth do you think? Maybe that, coinciding with the no dummy is making her more clingy/more overtired/prone to crying? *shrug* hope she cheers up for you soon!

Oh hugs girl..not much help here Lycan gave the dummy up when he got his first tooth.

I say just stick with it now you have started no point giving in and confusing her....eventually she will understand she doesn't need it.

YAY Awesome!! That girl sure knows what she wants! haha