At what point did they stop needing help all the time? Either by sleeping without it? Or finding it themselves?

LO is 10.5 months and on average she wakes up crying for me to put her paci back in somewhere between 1-4 times per night. She's pretty much always been like this. Right after we sleep trained at 6 mo she was a bit better at looking for her pacifier if she woke up mid-night and we a lot of nights I only had to go up once or sometimes not at all because she would cry for a few minutes while she looked for her paci, put it in, then fall back asleep herself. I would only go up if she couldn't find it after 2-3 minutes. Then we had a bit of a 9mo regression and ever since she doesn't even try to look for her pacifier when she wakes up mid-night. She just lays there and cries until I come put it back in. Or if I don't go up there, after a few minutes she stands up and cries at the edge of her crib "mama mama mama" until I come back in. Then she is too awake to just lay back down and I end up having to rock her back to sleep. The only times she ever puts the paci back in herself after she's fallen asleep the first time (I don't ever rock her to sleep at bed time since sleep training) is if it is literally right in front of her face and she doesn't hardly even have to move to get it in.

I know that if we re-sleep trained for MOTN wake ups we could probably break her of this habit, but honestly I don't care *that* much. Usually the first two of her wake ups are before I even go to bed so she usually only wakes me up once or twice a night and I fall asleep easily after so it isn't that big of a deal to me to run up and give her the paci back a few times.

I'm more just curious if this has happened to other people, and if their kids ever got back into the groove of finding their paci themselves or if it just continued on until sleep training or paci weaning?