I just want to get your take on whether pacifiers are a problem. Right now my 14 week old is doing pretty well with sleep. She sleeps usually from 8-530 at night, feeds, and then sleeps til 730 and gets up for the day. Her naps are really sucking recently though... she rarely naps for longer than 30-40 minutes so we do usually 5 short naps a day.

She sleeps in a crib in her own room, swaddled with blackout blinds and white noise. We do a bedtime routine of song, change, bottle, story and then into the crib awake. The only problem - we give her a pacifier while putting her down into the crib. I very rarely have to replace it though. If it falls out and she cries, we usually give it 5-10 minutes and she will fuss herself to sleep. If it turns into screaming, we replace the paci once. Have never had to do it more than this.

All this to say - I know the 4 month regression could be right around the corner. Is the pacifier a problem? Is this technically not independent sleep? Should we be getting rid of it cold turkey at this point? I also wonder if the fact that her naps have shortened immensely means she’s already gone through/going through the regression? Any insight would be appreciated!