If you use a pacifier at night...

Noodle716 · April 2010

Does your DC find it when he/she wakes up in the middle of the night.

DD used to STTN and lately we are having major sleep issues...I guess it is a 9 month wakeful due to talking/crawling/pulling up and taking steps all within a few short weeks???

She is so on the move. We watch her wake up on the monitor and she immediatley hops up on her knees and either starts rocking or stands up or just rolls, of course banging her head.

The big issue is that she is not looking for her pacifer or she usually knocks it out of the bed. If she could find it, she woud go back to sleep on her own.

When was your LO able to find it on his/her own? She also somtimes knocks them out of the crib so we have thought about getting some breathable bumpers (post below)...

mollymay38 · April 2010

The bumper was a lifesaver for us in regards to keeping the paci in the bed. Once I removed the bumper (she was starting to stand on it), the pacifiers were being knocked out in the night. I was going in during the night and finding them caught in the crib sides, under the bed etc. But when the bumper was in, she had her paci (or pacis ) in the bed at all times. She was pretty good about finding it.

andkatiesays · April 2010

I posted in the bumper thread, but I will here too . We have the breathable bumpers and we put at least 5 pacifiers in DS' crib at night. We have done this for over a year now and it really works. It's saved us from getting up 4 times a night to give DS his paci so he could go back to sleep.

The breathable bumper totally collapses down if DS tries to stand on it so he can't use it as a step to get out of the crib.

GeminA1 · April 2010

I don't think C does put it back in, but he sleeps fine if it falls out. We did go through a stage at least a month long where we would have to put it back in once/night, but then he just stopped! (teething and has a cold now though, so he's waking up at least once anyway!)

MrsPreK · April 2010

Yup, DS finds it. We use bumpers too - have since day one for both LO's so that helps keep it in like other said.

Your LO is a lot younger though and I remember being extremely pg having to go in at night and find his and give it back to him at that age =/

GL!!

W&J'sMommy · April 2010

Ditto on putting lots of pacis in the crib, DD would have at least 6 in there at all times when she was that age, helps alot.

LiLnikkiMe · April 2010

we also put 3 to 4 paci in the crib too

jenifairies · April 2010

I can't remember exactly when, but it was before a year for sure. We used to put 5-6 of them in her crib so they were easy to find, and if she knocked some out, there were others.