Breaking the binky

ammorgado

Hey ladies!  I need to start breaking JJ of his pacifier habit.  So far we already limit it to car rides and sleep times.  Has anyone used a method that worked really well for you? Any advice/recommendation is welcome!

Thanks! 

smbd

the one that I've seen work best, is just to take it. It's harder on you than it'll be him. You can "send" them to babies who need them or have a leprechaun take them on St. Patrick's  if you don't want to take them yourself so to speak. 

J never really liked hers, but I made her have it until she was 6 months old. She kept it for about a month after that and then got sick and tossed it. N hates hers, but she's keeping it until she's at least 6 months old as well.

micheleNYC

hmmm. No personal advice as I took Ben's away at 5.5 months when we sleep trained, and Maddy has never taken one. But many friends have had success with the "give it to the new babies" idea. Or just start not letting him have it in the car (he really will get over it in like a day or two); then try sleep time too. 

ked77

Angela we are trying to do the same exact thing and don't know what to do!  She only gets it in the car and sleep times too.  We tried to go without it the other night and I caved in when she was screaming, but I think we need to just do it.  Last week I took them out of the car and it's made for a couple of painful car rides for me but it's getting better.  She's too young to understand a binky fairy so it'll just be mean mommy taking it away but I think that's the route we're going to take 

ammorgado

He's definitely too young to understand the Binky fairy.  I've tried in the car a few times too and it's been some stressful driving.  I did however download some music that he likes on my iphone so that helps a little.  

JJ's been an "all or nothing" type kid.  There's no gradual transitioning for him.  I think we may just have to rip it off like a band aid  I'm going to ask at day care today.  They've offered to help.  JJ will go 5 days next week b/c I have to help DH at the new location, so maybe they can try at nap time.....

Thanks ladies! 

bellepeppers

Whenever I get strong enough, this is the method we'll be using: 

http://bye-bye-binky.com

I'm not *overly* concerned about taking it away at this point.  She only gets it to sleep and I'm okay with that (for now). 

alison&adam

We did it cold turkey and it took 3 days, that's it... no wait, 4 day.  She also only had it for naps and night time, or when she had a huge melt down and I wanted to quickly calm her.  One night when we put her to bed we thought about just not giving it to her, so that's what we did.  She screamed and cried for almost an hour... but we stuck to it.  It was heart breaking.  Then the next night she only cried for about 15 minutes and little did we know she found a spare one and smuggled it into bed with her.  So the third night was another 45 min scream fest, but then the fourth night was a breeze!  It also helped that daycare reinforced it with her.  We just kept telling her that she was a big girl and no longer needed it.

I really think that cold turkey is the way to go.  They say it takes something like 11 days to form a habit...  so after 11 days we new we were ok. 

Victoria'sMommy

We put a tiny hole at the top of the nipple of the pacifier and increased the size of the hole daily. It took less than a week, and DD had no interest in the pacifier at all!

Good luck!

(BTW, I edited this reply a handful of times because I was giggling the entire time! I hope it made sense!)