My3 month old infant doesn't sleep much. I just bought a video monitor and noticed that when she wakes up (after 15-30 mins) she wants to suck, but the passy has fallen out of her mouth and she doesn't know how to put it back.

Any ideas on how to safely get her to keep that thing in her mouth?
I tried putting a cloth through it, but she plays with it and pulls it out.
I looked at the store and all the pacifiers look the same. I was hoping
there would be a magic one that a 3 month old could hold in. LOL.

I also give her a safe stuffed animal to hold it up against the passy, but
that usually only lasts 5 mins.

Any ideas? I'm still desperate for sleep. She was up every 1-2 hours last night. I may just have to way until she's able to put the passy back into her mouth herself. When does that happen? 6 months? 8 months?

I went thru the same thing. I know exactly what you mean. I also used the stuffed animal trick with marginal results.

The best advice I can give you is to hang in there and they will get better with sleeping & hopefully not need or want the paci as much as when they are younger like yours. I think DD was about 4 months old when bedtime got a lot easier and on a predictable schedule for us.

I stopped giving the paci to DD during the day when she was about 3½ months old. Actually...I just forgot about the paci...I would hold DD to soothe her, so DD never really needed or wanted a paci other than if she got fussy in her crib.

As for putting the paci back in the mouth on her own...I recall DD started doing that on her own around 6 months...but that was in the daytime when she could see what she was doing, and she'd be playing and just happenned to find a paci in her pile of toys...she just knew it went in her mouth.

DD is 10.75 months old now and (at bedtime in the dark) she really doesn't look around for it in the crib if she's lost it. If she wakes & starts crying for some reason...I still have to find the paci & put it in her mouth myself.

I think at 3 months, your baby sounds pretty similar to what my DD did.

I keep forgetting she's 3.5 months. I wanted to try to ween her off the passy, but she's so frantic when she wants to suck. She'll clasp her hands together and suck on them and get frustrated. Oh well. Someday I'll look back at all this and laugh....and probably miss it... :)

what i did with my first child, and now my second child to keep it in their mouth (which some may disagree with this lol) was when i swaddled then with a recieving blanket i would pull the covers up just a bit to about the bottom of the passy and it would stay in all night. Because especially my 3 month old now wants it so bad but accidentally spits it out alot so that works wonders. hope this helps!

Jennifer

my ds was the same so i by orthodontic ones witha slope on the teat he keeps them in better because they are bigger on the end. tommee tippee do ones as do othr baby stores

I did the exact same thing when I swaddled my son to keep the pacifier in his mouth, but I did it because he was in the NICU for 10 days after he was born and the nurses in there did it. Then once he got a liittle older and could reach for things I used to scatter pacifiers all around his head so he could reach in any direction and find one. Now he is a little over a year and takes one when I put him to sleep and he spits it out once he is in a deep sleep and does not want it again through out the night. It gets easier I promise! I remember those nights when they wake up every hour just so you can put the pacifier in their mouth, oh the good old days! Good Luck!

I'm glad we're not the only ones with this issue!! Two things that have helped...I read in a book to try "reverse psychology." That is, try to pull out the paci, like 20 times in a row. (So, the baby has to really work at keeping it in) Do this throughout the day, which is supposed to train them to keep it in, even while sleeping and crying. Also, when I REALLY need sleep, I put her in bed with me and help her keep it from falling out. Then, when she's asleep...back to the co-sleeper. Hope this helps and hang in there!

I'll try the reverse psychology!!!!!!!! Good idea!

I already did the blanket thing. She still manages to push it out, but then
when she wakes up, she wants it again!

I'm going to buy her a swaddle blanket today, too. Her arms wake her up when she jerks in her sleep. She wiggles out of the swaddle if I do it myself.
(I call her Houdini). LOL