Our 6 month old daughter is now sleeping in her crib at nights, but she wakes us up at least 8 times a night wanted her pacifier. If we don't give it to her she will keep screaming and crying till she wakes up for good and then stays up. How can we get her to sleep through the night, and not wake us up everytime her pacifier fall out of her mouth. Help? If I let her cry it out will she eventually not need the pacifier to get to sleep?
2006-09-02 12:04:20 · 14 answers · asked by babygirl4us 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I wish that I could offer some advice, but I really can't. My son is 7 months, and he wants his pacifier to go to sleep, but once he's good and asleep, he'll spit it out (and it's funny, cause sometimes he really launches it!).
He usually wakes up once, crying for it. All it takes is for me to put it back in his mouth, because he's still so asleep, he hasn't even opened his eyes.
When he first started sleeping through the night without wanting a feeding, just wanting his pacifier, he'd want it four or five times, but over the past 5 months, that's gotten down to once, so I guess he'll eventually grow out of it.
Your daughter might be the same way, gradually needing less and less. I've tried the 'cry it out' approach, and it's failed miserably, so I wouldn't reccomend it.
Good luck!
2006-09-02 16:20:43 · answer #1 · answered by Queen Queso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let her have the pacifier. My daughter just gave hers up and she is almost 3. They have these clips that you can attach to their clothing and attach the pacifier. I got mine at Walmart. She'll be more likely to find it. Why put yourself through the misery of taking it away now? I told my daughter one day, No more pacifier she's a big girl, and she never had a problem. I'd say a goodnight sleep far outweighs giving it up.
2006-09-02 23:24:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lissa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was the same way with her Pacifier until there was a nasty case of thrush in our house and I threw them all out and her Dr. warning and she had to quit cold turkey. It was the worst three nights of my life but we all made it through.
It's like quitting any other kind of habit so if you choose a weekend you can get help from family for sleep shifts, it will take about three to four nights but just sooth her by giving her a little water or formula/breastmilk just to calm her screaming and then hold her. Imagine that it would be like you giving up drugs.
My daughter was very attatched but couldn't be better with out it.
2006-09-02 20:38:37 · answer #3 · answered by Annie Hightower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will take a couple LONG and STRESSFUL nights but she will cry it out. After 6 months old they don't need the sucking that the pacifier provides, it is just more of a habit by then so now is just as good a time as any to say good bye binky! GOOD LUCK :)
2006-09-02 22:04:40 · answer #4 · answered by tonaandmaylea 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off there really is no weaning off of pacifer,that is something you just do cold turkey.I just did that w/13 mth old.After a week a long sleepless one he was ok.Your baby is only 6 mths old though and the paci is her security blanket.Try leaving a few in her bed at night and work w/her at putting it in her own mouth.I know how it is my son was like this also.Some nights we would'nt get up just to see what he would do and eventually he would fall back asleep.You can try that,other than that alls i can say is hope you find a solution.
2006-09-02 20:48:35 · answer #5 · answered by hotmama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I could help. My daughter never took a pacifier. It didn't take her long to figure out she wasn't getting anything out of it and she spit it out.
Have you tried feeding her just before putting her down for the night? Maybe if her tummy's full, she won't miss the pacifier?
2006-09-02 19:19:14 · answer #6 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
babies are very attached to their pacifiers like a security blanket. when my daughter wakes up for her pacifier she finds it and puts it back in her mouth. i make sure to put at least 2 pacifiers in her crib just in case the other one fell out or is hidden. maybe that should help. also if she doesn't have one give her a lil stuffed animal she can hold on to. and if she drinks from a sippy cup yet, you can leave a sippy cup with water in it for her to drink if she gets thirsty. that is, if she is able to sit up and crawl yet. my daughter started drinking from the sippy cup at six months.
anyways, i hope one of these works for you.
2006-09-02 19:14:39 · answer #7 · answered by Pearlz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the pacifier away at night. She needs to learn how to soothe herself to sleep without the help of her pacifier. If she wakes up then walk in her room and softly "sshh" her or sing to her to calm her. Don't pick her up either. Just help her go back to sleep and eventually she'll learn how to do it on her own.
2006-09-02 21:14:46 · answer #8 · answered by BeeFree 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh my gosh! I don't have an answer because mine does the same thing. Oh how I feel for ya. So many sleepless nights. You sweet sleep deprived woman. I gave mine the pacifier for comfort, now I'm the one who has lost the comfort, of my bed. If you get any good answers pass them on to me would ya?
2006-09-02 19:07:52 · answer #9 · answered by ~SSIRREN~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
her pacifier is simply a subsittute for the comfor she needs from you. let her sleep with you and this goes away. because humans evolved to need to sleep that way. let her cry it out and you damage her ability to trust you forever. they don't stop crying because they get used to it - they stop crying because they learn crying doesn't work. people think that's a good thing on the surface, but what it means is a child learns early that the only tool he has to affect his environment doesn't work and even tho he is scared and lonely, no one cares. Bad lesson.
2006-09-02 20:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋