Comments on: How and When To Help Your Baby or Toddler Stop the Pacifier

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:34:38 +0000

In reply to Alice. Hello Alice, Thank you for your comment! I'm not familiar with this pacifier guide, so I hope your info will help other parents checking out these comments for ideas. We appreciate you visiting The Baby Sleep Site!

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:15:22 +0000

We used Susan Urban’s guide about giving up a pacifier like Doro and it worked wonders!

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:45:06 +0000

In reply to Kathy.

Hi @Kathy – Thanks for writing to us about your granddaughter! I’m so sorry that sleep has been such a struggle for these last 3 months, and that she had a staph infection! How scary! We know how tough these bedtime struggles and night wakings can be, so to you and your whole family, hang in there! It sounds like you have a good bedtime routine, and hopefully, you have a good sleep schedule too?
If you want to make sure that bedtime and naps are offered at good times for her, please check out our free sample schedules here:
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Since you’ve been struggling with this for so long now, I’d really recommend working closely with one of our experts, so that we can help with a Plan that will work for you and that you can all commit to and feel good about!
We also offer free 15 minute telephone evaluations with an expert sleep consultant, which might be a great fit! This can really give you good insight. If interested, please schedule your free 15 minute evaluation here:
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Thank you again for writing to us Kathy. If you have any additional questions, or if you need any assistance at all, please let us know, and we can get you started ASAP!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:32:58 +0000

My 26 month old granddaughter was addicted to her pacifier. She would fall to sleep with her binky and it would fall out of her mouth shortly afterward, if she woke during the night she would find it herself and pop it back in to suck and doze back off to dreamland. She would sleep 10-12 hours at night with her pacifier, but then she developed a bad staph infection on her chin where the bottom of the pacifier touched. It was persistent and started to spread. The dermatologist said the pacifier had to immediately and so was forced to go cold turkey with out her beloved pacifier. We tried to introduce stuffed animals, lovey blankets , but nothing worked to sooth her at night. It has been three months and bedtime is still a nightmare!! She will scream and yell and kick for hours. Last night she woke up at 1:30 and was up till her parents had to go to work in the morning. She fell asleep out of exhaustion around 7:30 in the morning. This is happening almost every night.
She gets an evening bath, pajamas on, bedtime story soft lullabies but nothing is working. Giving the pacifier back is not an option since the original staph break out will come back. She went from being a good sleeper to being up all night. What can we do?

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:54:28 +0000

In reply to Sarah Varnell. Hi @Sarah – Thank you for writing to us! We received your other comment too, but thought I'd reply here as well!!! We find that toddlers can and will sleep again after weaning the pacifier, though it can be a bumpy road sometimes (depending on how attached she was to the paci)! Keep offering those naps and be patient as she adjusts to learning how to nap without it! Good luck Sarah – and if you find that you need more help, please contact us any time!

By: Sarah Varnell

Sarah Varnell — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:05:39 +0000

I’ve heard toddlers will often drop their nap when weaned from the paci, even if they’re too young to go all day without sleeping (our toddler is 2.5). Is this true? Any ways to help prevent that?

By: Doro

Doro — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:19:13 +0000

In reply to Frida.

I know this book, by Susan Urban? Great book. Very challenging to help baby giving up a pacifier, but yes, consistency is a key 😉 It’s here: https://www.net-boss.org/shop/how-to-help-your-child-five-up-the-pacifier

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 04:37:56 +0000

In reply to Katie. Hi @Katie - Thanks for writing and for sharing your success story in stopping the pacifier! It is great that your daughter did so well with this, and we hope that it continues! Thanks again for sharing, and we hope that you'll keep reading!

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:52:20 +0000

We actually just took the paci away from our almost 15 month old, who used it for naps and nighttime. We liked it as much as she did, but it was moving her teeth and we were worried about palette development, etc. So far, it’s been surprisingly smooth.

Snipped a small piece off of the end and showed her in the late afternoon – telling her it was broken/ doesn’t work anymore/ she’ll be able to sleep without it now… She was very interested – would suck on it and it’d pop out, she’d grab it off the floor, pop it back in, then take it out and hand it to us, then wanted it back, etc.

So, bedtime routine as usual until we got to book time, when she’d ask for paci and suck while we read a couple books. She asked and I showed it to her reminding her it was broken and she could sleep without it. She threw it on the floor and i left it there and we read books, i sang to her as usual as i turned off the light and put her down – she wanted rocked , so I rocked her, had to remind her a couple times it was broken, and it was time to sleep….

Then she wanted in her crib and went to sleep without a peep… and slept all night.
We were shocked.

I recommend this approach!!! Should add that her paci was only for sleeping – she never had it outside of sleep times.

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:03:48 +0000

In reply to Steph.

Hi @Steph – Thanks for writing! I’m sorry to hear that your toddler had such a tough time giving up the pacifier! It’s been quite a while now, so it may not be the pacifier that he is missing when he cries. While it is common for some babies or toddlers to cry for a few minutes before sleeping, you may want to take a peek at his before sleep routine, and fine tune to help him get relaxed and ready for sleep, and take a look at your toddler’s schedule to make sure that he is being offered sleep at good times for him. Feel free to use our free schedules as a guide. Here is a link:
https://www.babysleepsite.com/baby-sleep-feeding-schedules/
You can talk to your pediatrician about offering the pacifier again, since he thought it was time to wean him from it.
Good luck Steph! I hope things smooth out soon!