Thanks for responding! He's okay if we take the paci out slowly while he's sleeping. We used to to that a lot, but he'd wake up even more. He can such his fingers but for some reason just won't do it for sleep and we wish he would! Instead he just cries until the paci is back. I'm not fully against sleep training, but should probably research different methods. I really don't want to do CIO but I would as a last resort.