Cry it out/getting rid of paci

Hey all! Tonight our 1 y/o (18 months) lost his normal paci super good!! So my husband went to the store to get a new one, but our Walmart only had the blue Avent soothies not the green ones. We've tried the blue before and he did not care for it!!

But I told my husband to go ahead and get it, that way he still has something if anything and if he doesn't like it then oh well time to get rid of the things anyways.

Yeah.... it's not going good at all!!!

We don't usually do the cry it out method, never have and never really needed to with both of our boys. But tonight it's looking like we might have to take the approach. So far my husband and I have been going in there every 3-5 minutes to resettle him back down. Is that too long? How do you know when to just give up and give in? It's been an hour and he's finally stopped 🤞

I just feel SOOO bad! He's been our hardest to break from the bottles and paci so I don't even know what to do 😭 (he just recently broke from the bottle)