Toddler Won’t Sleep in Without Paci?

If she is going to sleep (at naptime and at bedtime) just fine, them I'm thinking the problem is not the paci. My guess is that her sleep needs are changing.

If she is waking up cranky or is showing signs of being overtired, that's one thing. But if she's in a pretty good mood most of the day, she's probably getting enough sleep. It's not unusual for her to need a little less sleep at night. If she is getting eight hours of sleep at night and she's getting a nap during the day, it's likely that that's all the sleep that she needs.

I think I would consider having for bedtime a little bit late. No way would I want to be waking at 3:30 in the morning! My kids both slept about 7 to 8 hours a night with a 3 hour nap at that age. Wow was I happy when they gave up their nap! They sleep for 11 to 12 hours at night, then!

Sleep needs change, and I really think that's what's going on here.

Can't say mine ever slept for shorter periods without it. If she relied on it to get back to sleep if she woke early, that's another habit you'll have to break. Maybe going to sleep is one thing (if really sleepy she'll just doze off), but if only somewhat sleepy after 8 hours, it's a different matter.

Sometimes kids do just start getting up earlier - but that seems to coincidental. Mine would do it with time changes.

One thing one of mine had around that age, was a sippy cup. He would want a sip of water when he woke up. I didn't mind that habit because I like to have a drink when I wake up too and figured maybe his throat was dry. He had liked the sucking and missed it so a sip of a water (the sippy cup didn't leak) was all he needed. I kept it either by his bed or in his bed (can't remember now if he was in a toddler bed). Anyhow, if he woke, he had it with him and I wasn't stirred.

Good luck :)

Keep doing what you're doing. If you end up going in to her, she will not learn to self-soothe and you will have to get up every night with her. She'll go from depending on the paci to depending on you, and then you won't get any sleep either.

It's only been a few weeks.
She'll learn to self soothe without the paci sooner or later.