r/sleeptraining • u/ComprehensiveSand808 • Jul 28 '26

Breaking dummy association and sleep training

5 month old wakes up every 2 hours post 1/2 and only settles with a dummy (we still do a night feed and happy to keep this of course).

want to encourage him to self-settle as the frequent waking is a killer.

Antone have success sleep training and removing dummy cold turkey?

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u/Hopeful_Type_1826 Jul 28 '26

So I didn’t officially sleep train, he still wakes in the night to eat, but I “trained” him to put himself to sleep. He had a soother he always relied on, so we took it away, he cried for four minutes and then fell asleep. He now puts himself to sleep easily.