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Re: What age did you take your kid's pacifier away?
I don't get what the big deal is about pacifiers. I don't know any adults who use them (outside of raves...is that still a ting? Are RAVES still a thing?)
I imagine they will give them up themselves when they start socializing with other kids more and don't want to appear babyish.
Right around the time they turned two for both of them. My younger son (the one you met) had a much rougher time of it (which is why I call him Binky!).
jonah was about 18mos when we cut down to just sleeping times. he was almost 3 when we got rid of it forever. he was old enough to understand that "big boys" don't use them and he gave it up and never asked for it back.
ryan is 22 months and isnt' even close. he's SO attached to it. he talks to it like it's a person
My oldest daughter loved them the most! She had her soothies binkies until she was two. At that point, the pedi told us her teeth were starting to get messed up... so we cold turkied that shizz and didn't look back.
it was not as bad as i thought it would be.
good luck!
just make up your mind, and then throw them ALL away... otherwise, you'll be tempted to give in.
"There are other reasons to break the binky habit sooner rather than later. Pacifier use in the toddler and preschool years can lead to dental issues, speech problems, and middle-ear infections, not to mention becoming a binky addict. Children should not be walking around with a pacifier at age 2, says Jonathan D. Shenkin, a pediatric dentist in Augusta, Maine."
This is from a Time Magazine article.
D never used pacifiers.
The girls went away cold turkey style at 16 months without a hitch.
Tell me how you did it. Cut off the end? Binky Fairy? She too young for me to reason with still.
I'm obviously going to be a terrible mother.
I know nothing of this...
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We talked up the binky fairy - who comes to take them away for the babies, and leaves a gift for the big kid.
Then, one morning she dropped it under the couch, couldn't find it, and deduced the fairy took it. She got her gift that night. WALLA. No tears. I plan to do the same with DS.
There's a difference from them having them all the time, and only for sleeping too though.
We were going to do the cutting off the end trick but accidentally went cold turkey.
Cut the end off and left it in it's "normal" spot. Next time they'd go to use it, I'd say "uh-oh, the binky is broken!" and make a big show of THEM throwing it away. We'd talk about the binky sometimes too afterwards (like a few days later) and talk about how the binky got broken.
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Awww, maybe she isn't ready to give it up yet! She won't just do nights only? We did that for a few months before we took it away completely. Maybe ONLY allow her to have it if she's in her crib.
I just got rid of them, that's it. But I will say that breastfeeding increased following the removal of their pacifiers.
She only gets it at night or when she is in her crib right now but she wants it all of the time. It's becoming a fight :-(
DS#3 was 3 when he was completely weaned off them.
We started out gradually: no "nuk-nuks" when in public, then no nuks in the car, then it got to a nuk only at night. One night ex-dh said "nuk is all gone", and that was the end of that. He didn't cry or anything--he just accepted it and went to sleep.
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