Sleep regression after pacifier is gone

Hi Mamas, did anyone else’s LO go through some sort of sleep regression after taking the pacifier away. My tiny doesn’t ask for the pacifier anymore which is great but her naps have gone from 2-2.5 hours down to about 1 hour on the dot. And she wakes up about an hour earlier in the morning consistently. I feel like I’m going crazy because the only thing that’s changed in there’s no more pacifier. Anyone else have something similar???

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I’m not sure about pacifiers but I weaned my 2 year old about 2-3 weeks ago and did notice changes in her nap time and night time sleep. It was around the 2 year regression mark too but it’s now starting to get better a few weeks in

Any tips on weaning the paci ? My LO turned 2 in March and we tried taking it away but he constantly asks for it

that’s sounds very similar. I’m hoping things will improve because she definitely needs a longer nap in the day.

we started only using it at certain times. So it was only for in the car, nap time and bed time. Then we stopped it in the car and it took a little adjustment but we found that bringing a stuffed animal or toy for car rides distracted pretty well. Not always at first but it got better and now she doesn’t ask for it at all. The bed times have been a little harder. We stopped it cold turkey with bed times mainly because I’m due this summer and knew that the pacifier would reappear with the new baby so we just stopped it and said we needed to get them ready for the new baby and she didn’t need them anymore. Now we are stuck in her room holding her hand until she sleeps but that’s getting slowly better. She doesn’t ask for the pacifiers anymore but she does need the extra help getting to sleep.

I think it’s mostly the regression and then adjusting to sleep without the comfort, she went for like a week or two not even napping some days and now she’s back to her 2hr nap at 1pm every day. It’ll pass

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