4 week old & pacifier

[Momhope15]

My one month old DD now only sleeps with her pacifier.
After feeding and some awake time, I give her the pacifier and off she goes to sleep (naps and bedtime). She is unable to go to sleep without the pacifier and a lot of the times she spits it out and wants it back so I keep getting it for her.
Should I keep giving her the pacifier? Or once she spits it out, i let her be?
I tried not giving in but she remains wide awake without it. Should I leave her without it for longer and see if she eventually falls asleep?
It is easy enough to keep putting the pacifier in her mouth However I struggle in the evening as it is dark and can't find her mouth, having to resort to the light on my phone.
Also I have noticed that with the pacifier she has a very light sleep, she wakes us straight away if the pacifier falls off.

She might have a light sleep anyway, with or without the pacifier.
As she gets a little older she'll find it in bed and put it back in her mouth. Pacifiers were invented for a reason, to pacify, and if they do the job, use them.

I'm old enough to remember when there was prejudice against babies being given 'dummies', they were considered rather, not bad exactly, can't think of a suitable word. People (women!) tut tutted and looked down their noses if you know what I mean. Now you see most babies with them.

Your daughter will outgrow wanting to use one. I remember my son having a cold, his nose was blocked and he pulled it out and threw it away. It fell behind the radiator and stayed there forever :-). Happy memories.

Your daughter is still very new, everything will change over the next few months but don't stress over something like a pacifer.

Congratulations on the, still recent, birth of your daughter by the way!

Thank you @Bluerussian
She used to fall asleep while feeding on my breast and would go straight to bed. I supposed it was early on (the first 2 weeks) and most likely she would just eat and sleep at that age.
I was initially worry to have introduced the dummy so soon (around 3 weeks) merely due to the fact that I was worried that she would think she was being fed instead and hence not getting a proper feed. She is still a bit jaundice so really needed to get her fed when she was first diagnosed at day 2.
I'm a first time mum and still learning - sometimes she is awake for quite sometime, trying to sleep sometimes it goes over 1 hour - if she is hungry will she take the pacifier thinking it is my breast and therefore miss her feeding?

If you feed your daughter well and often, she will be receiving enough food. Anyway her weight will give you an idea of that. A pacifier is just a bit of extra comfort, not a substitute for feeding, and she'll reject it when she's had enough of it.

I can't remember when I last saw a baby without a dummy! Even my lovely neighbour who is a professional, highly trained nanny, gave both her babies dummies and never thought twice about it. Babies like to suck, they often suck their thumbs if there's nothing else available.