we have successfully weaned baby c off his pacifier. hip hip hooray! i actually never wanted to give him the paci to begin with. but if you recall how horrendous his first few nights back home with us was, i was desperate and willing to try anything to quiet him. so....in came the paci. worked out well for us until about 3 months back. the paci would fall out in the middle of the night and baby c would wake looking for it. i told b then that we should wean him. but b was reluctant and maybe a little terrified (i think). baby c always nodded off immediately after the paci is put back into his mouth, which makes looking after him at night easy for b (in his mind). the real kicker came a month back. when we were out and about, baby c would suck on his paci, take it out, look at it, put it back in, bite and chew on it, take it out and THEN throw it onto the ground. then at night, he started waking up more times looking for the paci because he was playing with it in his sleep! the final straw was the night which he did this throughout the night. we have a total of SIX pacis in the house for him (yeah, a lot huh?). he went through all of them that night. the next morning, i threw them all out and we started. basically i didn't give b a choice cause i started the process. i tell you, the first few days AND nights were tough. the first day, he cried for an hour straight then nodded off out of sheer exhaustion. and you know what? i had to carry him AND stand up for the first few days. needless to say, both b and i looked like zombies during that week (yes, it took him that long). ah.......but then.............it's blissful now. no more worrying about if we have enough pacis, if he's going to throw them out, no more waking through the night to get the damn paci! on hindsight, i should have weaned him off the paci when we finally got the confinement nanny. should have let her dealt with him then. hmm.............................