Anyone else experiencing similar?

We’ve hit a stage my friend went through with her daughter when she was about 19 months so I felt like it might come but now I’m not sure how best to handle it 😩

My daughters started throwing her diddy (or binky to some?) out of the cot and shouting “mommy, diddyy!” Or “daddy, diddy!”. Basically she’s realised she can communicate that she wants one of us to come in the room and its happened the last 2 nights. We even hid a couple extra in the cot tonight but she threw those out too. We questioned if we should break the habit and do away with the diddy cold Turkey but both of us don’t feel like bedtime is the time to do it especially whilst it’s a “thing” right now.

We’ve gone in and tried to make no deal of it either way, tonight we limited it to going in twice but it led to a lot of crying when she threw it back out I felt so guilty 😩 (although she did eventually go to sleep after about 20 mins of tantrum over it).

Just wondering if anyone else is having the same issue or if anyone had any tips to get past this stage with as little (or no) crying as possible 🙁