More getting rid of Pacifier help

[marie3246]

We dropped the paci cold turkey 2 thursday nights ago, so its been a little over a week without one at all. The first 2 nights were rough, she woke up 2-3 times and wouldn't go back to sleep. The 3rd night we did CIO with no checks and she went to sleep after on and off crying for 1 hour. She has pretty much been sttn since then. We are still having a few issues though. 

-She wakes up at 5:30/6 every morning. She used to wake up at 9 when she had the paci. We have been changing her and giving her a bottle and she will go back down til about 7:30, but that's it. She goes to bed at 7:30. Even if we keep her up later she still wakes up 5:30/6. Anything I can do to get her to sleep longer? She had 1/2 days where she magically slept til 8 and she was like a different baby, so well rested. 

-Naps are awful. She talks, plays, cries on and off for 45 min to an hour before she finally falls asleep and sometimes she doesn't naps at all. Then she is super cranky from being over tired. 

Any tips?

[soozy87]

When we dropped the pacifier we added a beanie baby type animal.

[marie3246]

Feb 14, 2015 11:45:50 GMT -5 soozy87 said:

When we dropped the pacifier we added a beanie baby type animal.

We cut the Paci off her wubanub, but now she hates it. She gets mad and throws it. 

[marie3246]

Feb 14, 2015 11:49:52 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

How old is she? Why are you dropping the paci?

She is 11 months. We are dropping it because we are tired of taking it everywhere with us and we could tell she was getting more and more attached so we wanted to cut the habit before it got worse. 

[lolo]

You either stay the course and accept your new reality or accept that she's not yet ready to be done.

[ilikedonuts]

When my kid was 11 months, I did what was needed so she would sleep.

we took the paci away at 2 and it was a breeze because she understood it was time to be done.

[lostlenore]

Feb 14, 2015 12:00:46 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

Feb 14, 2015 11:49:52 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

How old is she? Why are you dropping the paci?

She is 11 months. We are dropping it because we are tired of taking it everywhere with us and we could tell she was getting more and more attached so we wanted to cut the habit before it got worse. 

Could you let her have it, but only in the crib?  That is what we do. DS3 knows that when he gets up for the day, his binky stays in the crib. 

If you don't want to take that step backwards (which I totally understand), I'm not sure there's anything else you can do to make her sleep in more. 

[soozy87]

Feb 14, 2015 11:58:19 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

Feb 14, 2015 11:45:50 GMT -5 soozy87 said:

When we dropped the pacifier we added a beanie baby type animal.

We cut the Paci off her wubanub, but now she hates it. She gets mad and throws it. 

Yeah, we did the same thing because he chewed through the pacifier. He got really mad the first few times he saw it. 

[marie3246]

Feb 14, 2015 12:21:32 GMT -5 lostlenore said:

Feb 14, 2015 12:00:46 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

She is 11 months. We are dropping it because we are tired of taking it everywhere with us and we could tell she was getting more and more attached so we wanted to cut the habit before it got worse. 

Could you let her have it, but only in the crib?  That is what we do. DS3 knows that when he gets up for the day, his binky stays in the crib. 

If you don't want to take that step backwards (which I totally understand), I'm not sure there's anything else you can do to make her sleep in more. 

I was hoping someone had a trick that might help but she woke up again this morning at 6. I'm conflicted bc I don't want to go backwards and she did great with naps yesterday and has gone down for night time without needing it and no crying. But the 5:30/6am wake ups are rough.

Now I'm kicking myself for cutting the pacis off the wubanub and if we go back we will have to buy more. Ugh

[jeaniebueller]

If she is going down at 7:30, a 5:30/6am wake up is pretty reasonable IMO. Sorry.

[marie3246]

Feb 15, 2015 9:43:08 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

If she is going down at 7:30, a 5:30/6am wake up is pretty reasonable IMO. Sorry.

True, but she isn't always going down then. That's if she has her 2 perfect naps and she goes right down. When she was sleeping til 8 she was so much happier. And if she does go to bed later she still wakes up at the same time. A few days ago, she cried most of her first nap, slept for 30 min. Wouldn't sleep her second nap at all, cried and fought sleeping and finally went down at 9 to wake at 5:30. She was cranky for 2 days. There is no way she's getting enough sleep.

[jr009j]

Feb 15, 2015 9:51:11 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

Feb 15, 2015 9:43:08 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

If she is going down at 7:30, a 5:30/6am wake up is pretty reasonable IMO. Sorry.

True, but she isn't always going down then. That's if she has her 2 perfect naps and she goes right down. When she was sleeping til 8 she was so much happier. And if she does go to bed later she still wakes up at the same time. A few days ago, she cried most of her first nap, slept for 30 min. Wouldn't sleep her second nap at all, cried and fought sleeping and finally went down at 9 to wake at 5:30. She was cranky for 2 days. There is no way she's getting enough sleep.

Have you tried putting her down earlier? Weissbluth recommends an earlier bedtime whenever there is a big change. It seems counter intuitive, but whenever we've moved DD1's bedtime earlier, she has slept longer.

[marie3246]

Feb 15, 2015 10:02:48 GMT -5 jr009j said:

Feb 15, 2015 9:51:11 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

True, but she isn't always going down then. That's if she has her 2 perfect naps and she goes right down. When she was sleeping til 8 she was so much happier. And if she does go to bed later she still wakes up at the same time. A few days ago, she cried most of her first nap, slept for 30 min. Wouldn't sleep her second nap at all, cried and fought sleeping and finally went down at 9 to wake at 5:30. She was cranky for 2 days. There is no way she's getting enough sleep.

Have you tried putting her down earlier? Weissbluth recommends an earlier bedtime whenever there is a big change. It seems counter intuitive, but whenever we've moved DD1's bedtime earlier, she has slept longer.

I haven't. Thanks, we will try that tonight.

[jeaniebueller]

Plus if you are only on week 2 paci free, she is still probably adjusting. Hang in there!