Paci addict

Maja never really took to her paci until she was about 8 months old or so... at that point it really became a necessity for her since it was right around that time when I stopped nursing her until she was fully asleep. We pretty much only used it for nights/naps and the very occasional meltdown while out and about. And then we went to Spain... while on vacation, we really pushed her... we were up and out the door fairly early and rarely made it back for nap which means she had to snooze on the go and we also stayed out late because dinner time is usually around 9pm. Of course we ate out every single night too and poor Maja wasn't too fond of that. However, we quickly realized that is she had her paci, she was good to go. So she pretty much spent the entire trip with a paci in her mouth... so much for trying hard on keeping up the limits.
When we got back to the US we started working on weaning her off it and managed to get back to the night/nap only routine but then Isla arrived and started using paci so Maja regressed back to square one. We didn't even try to fight it... it didn't seem fair so we let her have it.
Now that Isla is a bit older and Maja understands which pacis belong to her (they each use a different kind) we are able to make progress again. For nights she gets one paci for her and then her bunny who sleeps with her gets to hold the two extra ones. It's really cute to see her go up to him and give him her pacis. Also at night when she wakes up, she knows exactly where to go (we have a video monitor so i can see her looking around for her bunny).
At times we still let her have it at home but we try not to and she is pretty good about understanding it's only for occasional use. It looks like we are on the right road and won't end up with a 4 year old who still takes a paci :)