Dummy help

Wait until they’ve settled with new baby first, it will be two big changes for them in such a short time period.. for reference I had my baby in aug and I took the dummy away completely in December and he had full warning from October

Yeah defo would leave the dummy as some sort of comfort for her. It’s going to be a massive change and if that’s something that clams her down I wouldn’t take away. Xx

We have just got rid of ours at the weekend . Put them in build a bears . One twin adapting Great other one hasn’t and bedtime has gone backwards xx

We got a tonie box as a sort of comfort replacement so she listens to that sometimes before bed, she hasn’t asked for her dummy since she got rid of it though 😃 now she sees her little brother with one and thinks they’re for babies anyway! 🤞🏼

We put ours in an envelope and posted it to Santa and explained Santa will turn it into a toy for her, it worked absolutely amazing. We did it in the summer and she still remembered at Christmas so not too early in the year for Santa. Or maybe could do Easter bunny?

If you are mentally and physically prepared for some restless nights, I'd try to wean her now but in saying this if the baby will use a dummy it may stir up some emotions/attachments as it will be such a recent change.

I agree with others, our 3 year old loved his dummy so much, but we wanted to get rid of it for ages for a few reasons but we waited until our now 6mo arrived, let things settle down for a few weeks, then we actually removed dummies from both children so he kind of saw it as them doing it together which worked quite well. We put them all in an envelope and he posted them to “other babies who needed them more”. He was really proud and pleased to do that, definately felt in control which helped. He’s pretty much forgotten about them now xx

Thanks everyone! I’m thinking keep them for now and maybe the Easter bunny can turn them into a chocolate egg or something 😂 x

@Shelley that’s good, I’m hoping she might think they’re for babies if our next one takes them

@Leena that’s a good idea, they have brilliant memories when it comes to Father Christmas and presents 🤣

Ok this doesn’t help with your current 3 yr old but might help with your second. We went cold turkey when my son turned one! The teething phase was mostly over by that point and only dummy he did have was the fruit dummy when he was teething. I think cause he understood once the fruit in the dummy was finished I washed n put it away so it lessened his want for it plus we used a teddy as a replacement comforter so when he wanted dummy we gave him a dummy (a nice blanket works sometimes too) he still needed some extra cuddles for reassurance here and there but that worked for us and hopefully will work for your second making it easier x

Plus he didn’t want the fruit dummy once he had chewed all the flavor from the fruit dummy 😂😂 which I think helped and it’s great cause u can freeze it to helping aid teething if they are still in teething phase

@Grace thanks I never tried a fruit dummy with my first so that’s worth a shot with our 2nd 😊

@Hannah really? Come the teething and feeding stage baby will love and be ready for it and it’s great and safe way to introduce new flavors/foods so not just fresh fruit but cooked/soft veg or frozen or cold fruit when teething etc x