More seep training Qs - Pacifiers

[Pilsy]

My daughter no longer eats overnight, so our wake-ups are usually settled by replacing her pacifier.  Not bad!  A night with one or two wake-ups is pretty dreamy at this point, but we still have nights with several.  And I guess STTN wouldn’t be a bad thing.  

My bigger issue is, while I enjoy nursing her to sleep and am happy to do that as long as we’re able, I think we should develop other ways of putting her to bed.  I’d like my husband to help sometimes and to know she’ll be fine with a babysitter occasionally.  A bunch of you mentioned you sleep trained and then returned to nursing to sleep once your children mastered also being able to fall asleep on their own.  That’s where I'd like to be.  

Anyway, if your baby still used a pacifier when you sleep trained, did you replace the pacifier during check-ins?  I imagine it will come out if I put her down awake with it and she gets upset.  

If the answer is yes, does this apply to both check-ins during the initial bedtime falling asleep only?  Or also the MOTN wake-up check-ins?

She doesn’t use the pacifier outside the crib and car seat, and I’m happy for her to use it, so I’m not necessarily looking to ditch it.  I just don’t know how we’re supposed to work this since she is still mastering putting it in her own mouth correctly.   


The book we read doesn’t address this sufficiently.  

ETA: Sorry to post and run, but I’ll be back to check during another pump break.  Thanks! 

[soozy87]

The pacifier thing was our problem too. A friend suggested the Wubanub. It worked the first night we tried it. It wouldn't roll away from him so he could find it on his own (at about 6 months).

We keep it in the crib and don't let him carry it around the house.

[lostlenore]

We sleep trained DS1 at 7-8 months. At that time, he couldn't replace his own pacifier, so we just took them away. He did fine without it.

DS2 & DS3 could replace their own pacifiers by the time we sleep trained, so they got to keep them. I just kept like 5 of them in the crib so that they are easy to find.

[Brie]

We would replace the pacifier at check-ins. I had no desire to get rid of it at that point. I'd go in, stick the paci back in, and pat him on the back/shush him for a minute or two.

[dcn]

We replaced the paci at all wakeups.

[Pilsy]

Oct 10, 2014 10:13:40 GMT -5 Brie said:

We would replace the pacifier at check-ins. I had no desire to get rid of it at that point. I'd go in, stick the paci back in, and pat him on the back/shush him for a minute or two.

Only at designated check-in times though, right?

Did you use a Wub?

Thanks!

[DarcyLongfellow]

I always relace the paci.

Actually, I put her to bed with five of them. Every time I check on her, I retrieve the extras from where they've fallen under her crib.

I also bought her a Pacimal -- like a Wubanub, but it works with MAMs. The Pacimal is too big to fall through the crib slats, so she always has it. She didn't prefer that paci to the unattached ones until recently, but at least she had a pacimin the crib at all times.

She should get the hang of putting it in on her own soon. I feel like DD2 had that mastered by 7 or 8 months.

[Brie]

Oct 10, 2014 11:34:50 GMT -5 Pilsy said:

Oct 10, 2014 10:13:40 GMT -5 Brie said:

We would replace the pacifier at check-ins. I had no desire to get rid of it at that point. I'd go in, stick the paci back in, and pat him on the back/shush him for a minute or two.

Only at designated check-in times though, right?

Did you use a Wub?

Thanks!

Yes to #1.  No to #2, he never took them.