8 month old baby and sleep.

Some children take to pacifiers (or their thumbs) and others don't. I used to work in a music shop and I found it amusing that when a child came in saying that they wanted to play the clarinet, oboe or similar instrument, their parents very often said (when I asked) that they used to suck their thumb.

If you train your child to use a pacifier when they don't want to (or, conversely, stop them from sucking their thumb when they want to), they will probably always associate having something in their mouth with pleasure. This can be one of the reasons that people play the clarinet, like chocolate or become smokers. If your child resits a pacifier, don't force it on him!

Thanks for your comments. I do agree that our emotions can affect the baby.

I am having a 7 month old baby (breastfed baby too), and he still wakes up and wants to drink milk sometimes in the midnight, but it's already cutting down the number of times waking up in the midnight, or sometimes he doesn't wake up in the midnight at all. I consider he is learning not to drink 'midnight milk' which is good. Sometimes, he just wakes up and wants me to carry him for awhile, he may not necessary hungry. I suppose he feels uncomfortable sometimes in his sleep, hence he makes some noise and wants the parents to make him comfortable.

I personally do not think of stopping my baby from drinking milk or waking up in the midnight at this age, I think he'll really change, and he does. Also, I always think we should let the baby feel comfortable so that they can sleep better. But, I did heard some kids still have the habit of waking up in the midnight to drink milk or some other drinks even when they are 2 or 3 years old. Perhaps we can wait until our babies are more than 1 year old, then we can slowly tell them not to wake up in the midnight?