The quick answer, no necessarily. Pacifiers are great for newborns and infants, supporting a child’s natural tendency for soothing and calm. Some babies use a pacifier, others never take to one, both are ok. While some sleep consultants have a zero-tolerance for pacifiers, we have so much experience with them, we don’t require you to drop the pacifier unless it’s a true prop that requires YOU to put it back in 46 times a night. Many children settle with it, then it falls out and they don’t wake, or like and use it as needed, putting it in themselves. The good news with the pacifier is that if it does need to go, it really is something they don’t even remember they used in a day or two, because we have sharpened their skill of settling and sleep so much, making it actually EASIER for them to go to sleep, stay asleep and take long naps!