Help, IF I Re-ENTER THIS PACIFIER ONE MORE TIME.

Is that you? Do you feel as if you are in pacifier jail, every night you feel as if, you place your little one within their sleeping space, and you enter the room 1,000 more times just to re-enter the pacifier to continue with sleep.

Well, I have a few suggestions for you… Ready?

Newborns: Stop offering it as the first step.

Let’s do Pick Up Put Down here. Whats That?

Assess the situation
give 30 seconds - 2 mins of fuss (not cry)
place your hand on their chest- 30 seconds - 2 mins
place them on their side and pat their back, butt while they are still in their crib - 30 seconds - 2 mins

Continue these above suggestions for 20-30 mins before caving with the pacifier. What you will see overtime is that the other crutches will work, before the pacifier. Make the pacifier the LAST resort.

Five Months -10 Months

Let’s play a game!

Place the pacifiers in a line beside the little one, as they are laying on their back…
Roll them to their side, towards the pacifiers, and allow them to see them. Practice the pacifiers on each side of them, so they learn to roll to both sides for the pacifier.
Watch, see if they grab them. If they do, help them place it in their mouth, and bring it to their mouth.
Make a big deal about them bringing it to their mouth. Continue this for 10 mins a day, 2-3x a day!
Practicing this in their crib, too, will be beneficial!
When putting them down for naps and bedtime, place 3-4 within the crib.

Toddler’s Still in Crib

This age they are fully capable of moving around and finding the pacifier’s. Now this losing the pacifier and needing help has become a stalling game.

When placing them down for bed, give them the paci and an extra one in the crib.

If they use the pacifier as a strategy to throw it out, to bring you back in, I want you to use these boundaries with them….

1x & 1x only will you enter the room and say, “hey you seem to have lost your paci (whatever you call it), so, I am going to give it back to you. I want you to know though, if you throw this out again, it has to sleep with mommy (parent) so that we can keep it safe.
If they throw it out again, you re-enter and the pacifier leaves with you, until the next morning.