It associates sucking with sleeping and therefore cries when you take it off. We tell you how to solve this.
QUESTION
If he has a pacifier, my four-month-old baby is able to fall asleep on his own. What happens is that he falls continuously during the night and he doesn’t stop crying until I get up and put it on. Can this be solved in any way?
ANSWER
You can sleep without a pacifier
Your child is still young to look for his pacifier when he drops it, and it is normal for this to happen when he falls asleep, because it opens his mouth. The problem is not that, but it has associated sleep with suction. Babies your son’s age are in the process of maturing their cerebral hemispheres, on which the stabilization of their sleep rhythms depends. Therefore, it is a good time to teach him that the pacifier is only a reassuring element and that you can sleep with or without it.
A child’s whining or whining is sometimes a way that he tries to fall asleep on his own. But if he is really crying, you must go to his side and reassure him with soft words; Also, try to put the pacifier a little later each time, and so progressively, until he learns to fall asleep without sucking.