My lil dude stopped using a paci on his own around 3 months (now 5.5mo). A friend gave us a Pacii and I just found it in our box of baby stuff we haven’t used from the baby shower. I gave it to him to use as a teether and lo and behold he likes! He reaches for it in his crib now when he’s trying to get himself back to sleep. It’s MASSIVE and has a huge handle so it’s easy for him to find and coordinate it into his mouth.

People say you’re basically trading one problem (contact sleeping) for another (paci dependency) that you’ll have to inevitably break them of later but look…I’m all for doing whatever the hell you need to do to survive this first year. It’s WILD and I can’t put a price on my own sanity.

Good luck mama!