My son is three months old and I am really hoping to avoid CIO -- he always starts the night well - usually 7-9 hours of great sleep, and then around 2 or 3 am, he gets up, sometimes eats, but mostly freaks out because he needs his pacifier, but can't seem to keep it in his mouth. We stopped swaddling, but I'm wondering this - does anyone have any experience with encouraging your LO to just find is thumb/hand to suck on at night so we aren't going in to his room a million times from 3 am til morning to reinsert the pacifier??