I need some advice on whether to wean my 5.5 month old baby girl from pacifier. She only uses it for falling asleep, but during 4 months sleep regression, she has developed the habit of needing it in her mouth during the full sleep time. She woke up almost hourly during the night, so I had to wean her from using the pacifier for the night since last week. It has been generally fine so far. She had two hard nights, but generally going down after the bed routine without crying at all.
The problems are 1) She wakes up for a feed around 3am and cannot fall back to sleep without pacifier. I tried not to give it to her, and she would turn a lot and make all kinds of sound but still awake until her get up time at 6am. With pacifier, it still takes her quite a while to fall back to sleep, but she can usually sleep one more hour before 6am. I don't know if this will confuse her or even give her an extra incentive not to sleep after the 3am feed until she gets the pacifier. 2) It's about her nap. She is napping well during the day with 3 naps of 2h, 1.5h and 30m. The last nap finishes around 3pm. I'm trying to stretch it to later or add a 4th nap at 5pm without any success. Her night time starts around 6 to 6:30pm, with her overtired sometimes. I have to sit by her during all her naps to put her pacifier back, otherwise she would wake up and crying. I tried once not using pacifier for her nap, and she couldn't sleep after 30m struggling, so I gave up.
What do you suggest? Should I just wait until she can put the pacifier back herself? The age for achieving that seems vary a lot depending on the baby. Or should I try again with pacifier weaning for the whole day after the 6 month growth spurt? I'm a bit concerned that it will break all the schedule we have so far, but it's really not sustainable for me to sit with her for all her naps everyday. I need time to do the chores and make her solids. Thank you for your advice, and any experience of pacifier weaning at similar age? 😊
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Pacifier and sleep at 5.5 months
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starst · 14/06/2021 07:07
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