Getting rid of pacifier help

Elizabeth

I’m a FTM and I know pacifiers are good for newborns, but my son is at 4.5 months now and I feel like he’s too dependent on it for sleep. He wakes up multiple times at night and cries because he wants his pacifier after every sleep cycle. So here I am exhausted from waking up to look for it and place it back into his mouth. Any tips? I need him to be able to connect sleep cycles without a pacifier.