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InShock
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Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
DD (almost 7 mos.) is a good sleeper. She goes down around 6:30 and wakes up around 5:30/6. HOWEVER -- for as long as I can remember, she has woken up needing her pacifier NUMEROUS times throughout the night. When this would happen when she was next to me in her bassinet, it was a non-issue (or so I thought). She has been in her crib now for over 2 months now and it is just becoming unbearable. Since 6:30 (tonight), she has woken up SEVEN times needing her pacifier. As soon as we put it in, she goes RIGHT back to sleep (she's only half-awake as it is). While it's bearable during our waking hours, it's simply frustrating and exhausting in the middle of the night (on average, about 3x).
She does know how to put her pacifier back in but she's not even fully awake so she doesn't even look for it -- and I've tried letting her cry a little bit (5 min or so) and she just gets so upset.  I keep waiting for her to "outgrow" this, but I'm not seeing an end in sight.
Any advice???
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
My neice would do this, so my sister put a few pacifiers in her crib so that way she would always find one. but if your dd isnt going to reach for it, that wouldnt be much help. sorry... hope it works out.
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| Posted 1/22/08 10:25 PM |
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dm24angel
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
I have the same issue and its the ONLY time he wants the pacifier. HE doesnt even really use it at other times. ITs soo annoying. Its half the reason I put the crib in our room so I wouldnt have to go into his room 7 x's a night....
hes 7 months now too. 
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| Posted 1/22/08 10:38 PM |
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Arodisi
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
I am having this issue also!
At 5.5 months, DS just starting sleeping through the night!
I put him down at 9:30 and he wakes up at around 8:30, HOWEVER, he will wake up crying at about 1 am and 4 am looking for his pacifier!
I am thankful that he finally started to sleep w/o needing a bottle during the night, but this pacifier thing is soo annoying!
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| Posted 1/22/08 10:49 PM |
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InShock
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Posted by dm24angel
I have the same issue and its the ONLY time he wants the pacifier. HE doesnt even really use it at other times. ITs soo annoying. Its half the reason I put the crib in our room so I wouldnt have to go into his room 7 x's a night....
hes 7 months now too.
Watch me go put her crib in our room tonight ... 
(Did I mention her room is a level - about 8 steps - below ours?!?!  )
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| Posted 1/22/08 10:52 PM |
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InShock
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Posted by BabySammie
My neice would do this, so my sister put a few pacifiers in her crib so that way she would always find one. but if your dd isnt going to reach for it, that wouldnt be much help. sorry... hope it works out.
I just put 3 more pacifiers in her crib (all I could find right now!). I don't think it's going to work, but it's certainly worth a try! 
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| Posted 1/22/08 11:00 PM |
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InShock
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
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Posted by BabySammie
My neice would do this, so my sister put a few pacifiers in her crib so that way she would always find one. but if your dd isnt going to reach for it, that wouldnt be much help. sorry... hope it works out.
I just put 3 more pacifiers in her crib (all I could find right now!). I don't think it's going to work, but it's certainly worth a try!
WHOA!! DD just woke up and FOUND one of the pacifiers and seems to have put herself back to sleep (at least momentarily). This is HUGE!!!   I think I'll be going out and buying 30 more to lay about her crib every night!!
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| Posted 1/22/08 11:19 PM |
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Posted by InShock
Posted by InShock
Posted by BabySammie
My neice would do this, so my sister put a few pacifiers in her crib so that way she would always find one. but if your dd isnt going to reach for it, that wouldnt be much help. sorry... hope it works out.
I just put 3 more pacifiers in her crib (all I could find right now!). I don't think it's going to work, but it's certainly worth a try!
WHOA!! DD just woke up and FOUND one of the pacifiers and seems to have put herself back to sleep (at least momentarily). This is HUGE!!! I think I'll be going out and buying 30 more to lay about her crib every night!!
I'll have to keep this in mind..DS wakes up ALOT during the night for his binky...He cant get it on his own b/c we still have to swaddle him. (He startles still and is constantly flailing his arms in his sleep-which wakes him up) We are trying to ween him off this though...
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JenBenMen
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Honestly--I stopped giving DS the paci for this reason. He is 8 1/2 months and when I put him down he cries --i know he wants the paci, but after about 15 minutes he falls asleep without it. The first few nights were hard, but its better than getting up all night to give it to them
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| Posted 1/23/08 8:45 AM |
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LuvMy2Girls
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Posted by JenBenMen
Honestly--I stopped giving DS the paci for this reason. He is 8 1/2 months and when I put him down he cries --i know he wants the paci, but after about 15 minutes he falls asleep without it. The first few nights were hard, but its better than getting up all night to give it to them
WE did the same thing around the same time with DD, we were just not loving getting up to plug her back in. It took a couple days of fussing before she fell asleep, but she never looked back.
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| Posted 1/23/08 8:49 AM |
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nbc188
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
One of the reasons I'm glad DD never took the pacifier!
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| Posted 1/23/08 8:50 AM |
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Shelly
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
DD used to go to bed with a halo of pacifiers. We literally started sticking about 5 in her crib. She just reached out her arm in any direction, and there one was.
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| Posted 1/23/08 9:34 AM |
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want2beamom
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Re: Waking for the pacifier a MILLION times during the night
Same thing happened with my son. It was making us crazy. We did 3 nights of CIO, and now he doesnt take a binky to go to sleep at night. He does take one for naps, but not at night time. It has made it soooo much better!!!
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