Yesterday was Day 3 of weaning. (Refer to previous days' posts for Days 1 and 2 of pacifier weaning). Prior to putting my son to bed, I collected all of his pacifiers that had holes poked into them previously and cut just the tip of each with a pair of sharp scissors. I placed 5 pacifiers in his crib for night time sleep.
After story time, I tucked my son into his crib at 7:20pm like always and said goodnight. Prior to leaving his room, I couldn't resist seeing his reaction to the pacifier. My son took a pacifier, put it into his mouth, took it out, then looked at it, and chucked it to the side. It was really cute! He grabbed another pacifier. I turned off the lights and left the room. He then went to sleep quietly.
At 8:20pm, he made a small cry for 2 seconds, and went back to sleep. At 4am, he cried non-urgently for 8 minutes and then quieted down. He cried for 30 seconds at 4:20am and went back to sleep. At 4:45am, he cried again for 2 minutes and went back to sleep. He cried at 5:45am for 1 minute and went back to sleep until 6:30am. This was unusual. So obviously, the snip to the pacifier made more of an impact than the 7 holes poked in it from days 1 and 2. Still, it wasn't as bad as I had thought it would be. I'm sure we would have had many hellish nights if I had made him go cold turkey in the first place. Hopefully by snipping the pacifiers and making them undesirable first, it won't be as difficult to take them away in a few days' time.
There were no noticeable differences in his naps from the previous days. More updates to come in the upcoming days…
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