Pacifier ?

My daughter was 6 months old. I had to take it away when she was ill she couldn’t breath through her nose but would cry for her dummy up every hour so I took it away whilst she was poorly and she’s done amazing she had a little moan for 2/3 minutes then took herself to sleep.

My son was 3.5 years old. My fault not his it was my comfort as well as his as he would be chilled with it in. He lost it at his grandads and I just stuck with that story

my son only uses his for naps other than that we don’t allow him to have it. i always tell him “if you want to get up and play then you have to give me the paci” … and then at bed time he started to correlate on his own that he would have to stop playtime if i gave him a paci. so he now does not want it for sleep

@Alexis so only naps not bedtime ? That’s what I’m thinking about doing but she cries at bedtime too, and I end up caving.

I took my sons a little after he was one. And I suggest you start taking the pacifier during the DAY. So baby gets used to not having it throughout the day, night time routine would usually be bath then bed so the bottle I made for him usually did the trick of putting him to sleep. It end up being a thing where I successfully weaned him off the pacifier but now throughout the night he has his bottle to help put him back to sleep if he wakes up throughout the night. But for starters I suggest taking pacifier throughout the DAY. And so you and baby can have sleep maybe offer it at night. If you notice your baby is doing well without it, then don’t give it to the baby.I notice I was def the problem always giving my son the binky when he really wasn’t crying or looking for it.

Our pediatric dentist told us to make sure the pacifier was gone by 2 years old. She said the teeth would shift back easily as long as it was gone by then. He ended up biting a hole in the paci, so we just removed it for good. The teeth shifted back in 2days! Kind of crazy. But the doc said to just wait until the time seemed right. If your baby loses the paci somewhere, maybe just stick to that story. It could be a rough couple days, but they adjust.

@Des she never has it during the day, only nap & bedtime

@Elise okay thank you. She’ll be 2 by 27th of March so I’ll slowly ween her off until then

Luckily my son doesn’t fight nap time, would you consider making a routine to where it may be taking your toddler out for a walk or something along them lines that can get her tired, during her nap hrs? Of course my suggestion is def starting with nap time and taking pacifier away during that time. It may be a tough couple weeks of no naps being that ur trying to wean her off the pacifier. But ik from my experience I’ve def understood it’s gonna be some long nights and early mornings when implementing a new routine for our children. Thats def one of the sacrifices.

@Des so maybe take it away cold turkey ? Nothing during naps or bedtime ? And take it from there?

No, Just so you can get some type of rest give her it to her at night. until you personally see the perfect time of saying *ok I think ima try tonight with no pacifier* I do feel it’s important for mom to get some rest so she can function properly for her child. Going cold turkey may make things harder than what it should be. You know ur babygirl better than any of us, so if you see an opportunity being that she will be alright without it def make that move. It’s not gonna all happen in one day, but def try to make every day count until she is successfully off!

Take it away slowly or cold turkey. Teo options. They will get used to it. We took it away for day. And he has it for naps and bedtime. He used to use it prior to going to sleep to calm him down and we would use the strap to put it on his shirt. We stopped that recently. Now we just throw it in the bed and he falls asleep without one in his mouth. But if he wants it. He has to find it in his crib. He has two right now. The one I just cut so it’s not so wanted. And the other is normal. Soon i will cut the other too. I’m taking baby steps with him bc I’m due soon and don’t have the patience or energy to do all nighters with him crying for it. My daughter I took it away prior to 6 months and was super easy. I messed up letting him keep it this long.

@Victoria I feel the same! I took it away when she was around 8 months and she was fine and for some odd reason I gave it back and now I sometimes feel like I messed up there. When I take her paci at night she’ll cry for a while but eventually fall asleep. If I take it during nap time, there won’t be a nap time😂 so I’m thinking I’ll just give it to her only during nap time from here on out at least until she’s 2 then take it completely

I am going through the same thing as you for the same reason! Today I decided to do it, so in the morning I grabbed her pacifiers and told her to say goodbye, that they were leaving today because she doesn’t need them anymore! SHe even said bye! I kept them in case I needed them later! Just now at nap time, I talked to her and told her that there were no pacifiers because the trash had already gone through and we had thrown them away but that I trusted her to sleep without Paci and that she was big enough to do it. She fell asleep without Paci because she was tired! SHe has been sleeping without it for 1 hour 35 minutes. Let's see how we do at night.

Hey everyone! She fell asleep last night with no binkie and didn’t cry she just babbled for an hour and no problem! She woke up 30 mins earlier in the morning (6:30) she did so well I’m thinking of taking it away completely! I was going to give it back for naps only but it might be a perfect time to just get rid of it altogether? What do you guys think?

get rid of it all together!

@Alexis thank you for replying !! I definitely will.

Hi! Will you update how nap time went without it?

@Mira it didn’t, I ended up caving because she wouldn’t fall asleep. I read online to start taking it during bedtime then gradually take it away during nap time too. That’s what I did 😬😕