Chance was a paci-addict, but the pacis were starting to cause some trouble. At night he would stand up in his crib and throw his paci as far as he could across the room. Then he would stare at it and cry. I would give it back to him and this process would repeat over and over until he finally fell asleep. I tried putting 3 or 4 pacis in his bed and he would throw them out one at time.
A couple weeks ago he started waking up 3-5 times in the night and needing my help to go back to sleep. The "paci game" as we called it was not very much fun at 2 a.m. After a couple days of this I had an idea: He is already sleeping horribly, why don't I just take his paci away. Brilliant! I kept this bowl of pacis handy knowing I would give in very easily, especially in the middle of the night.
It has now been 2 weeks and I think it's safe to say he is done with pacis. He wakes up once or twice at night, but I'm ok with that. The only real difference I've noticed is he puts anything and everything into his mouth with no paci there to block. I'm so happy this worked out because Bentley's sleep still hasn't recovered from taking his paci away.
Last picture with paci:
