It went well! Yesterday Kirsty started accepting the dummy for actual sucking purposes rather than playing. It meant she had 2 daytime naps yesterday without BFing to sleep. This was a HUGE step for her as she tends to BF to sleep most of the time unless out in the car or pram!
So last night... I BF her, and went to lay her down & she woke up (in one respect I'm glad because the whole point of this sleep training is she should go down awake).
So I tucked her in, said "sleepytime darling", music on, put her muslin square in her hand, left the room. That was at 7:35pm, she cried 5 mins, went in same thing but didn't talk, left her, she cried 5 mins again, went in same thing again, left her. By this time she was getting quite distressed so I left her another 5 mins... went in, popped a dummy in her mouth, muslin square in her hand & she zonked immediately. I think dummy & muslin square might be our new best friends?! She woke around 2ish for a feed, when I laid her back down she was wide awake with that "i wanna play" look on her face. I popped the dummy in, gave her the muslin, music on and went back to bed. That was her til 5:30! I went in and gave her the dummy at 5:30, music on and I got another hour in bed. She didn't sleep but was happy in her cot.
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