Moms - Pacifiers...

morrigan08 · October 2011

Hold old was (or will be) your kid when you got rid of the pacifier?

Evie is now 14 months old. She loves the thing. I am trying to limit it during the day or just at home. With all her teething it is a comfort and she does love it. She hides them around the house and goes to her hiding places to find one if we don't give her one. But it is just hard when I know that is that she wants, and is very vocal about it. I start the weekend thinking, ok I will really limit pacifier use, then give in about 2 hours into the morning (she is a stubborn little girl, and if she sees one she NEEDS it, even if she doesnt' see it she goes looking and will make the sucking sound and cry).

But now...with all her drooling, she is developing a great rash on her chin because of the paciifer.

So kind of like the bottle / sippy cup post below... Should I be trying to get her off of it? I don't want her to be like my sister who was around 5 when she gave up hers....

naylon511 · October 2011

Like bottles I just have a personal pet peeve when older kids (say 2-3+) are walking around in public with either so I want to eliminate.

For binkies, I just always limited them. She has never been allowed to have them outside of sleeping (or long car rides). We have a process where I pick her up in the morning, we have a cuddle and then what ever "friends" came out of the crib have to go back. We put blankie back and say "bye bye - see you at nap time or see you tonight". Binkie, same deal.

FOR ME, this is enough. She only uses it for comfort when sleeping, she never uses it in public, and I'm OK with her using it as long as she feels she needs it.

So, I guess it depends on your goal/tolerance. If you're cool with her using it at home, maybe just start slowly eliminating it other places?

Jennrs · October 2011

Neena (21 months) still used her paci for naptime, bedtime, and occasionally when she's not feeling well. We are hoping to start getting rid of them all together when she turns two.

trickeytricky · October 2011

Zac used a paci for a month or two and then willingly gave it up on his own. I shouldn't say that ... when he realized it wasn't a functioning nipple he was like, "WTH is this mom? Don't even try to pull that sh*t again."

Pitchslap · October 2011

Kayleigh uses a binkie mainly just at naptime. I try not to have her use it during the day but when she's teething or REALLY fussy for 30+ minutes we use it. And I stopped having her use one when we're out of the house except for long car rides like Naylon said.

LaurenSweat · October 2011

We just broke Charlie of this two weeks ago (at 15.5 months). At first we were ok with letting him go a little longer, but with new baby on the way we thought it would be harder to expect him to quit if the baby is allowed one.

We decided to cut it out cold turkey starting on a friday after daycare. I gathered them all up, put them in a box and put the box in the basement. That night he cried for it for about 5 minutes then went to sleep. The next nap, same thing. By Monday he had forgotten. I did buy him a couple new teething toys that if he seemed to be looking for the pacifier I whipped out one at a time. I think that distracted him enough from looking and then he was happy to chomp down on other things.

Our plan b, which we didn't have to use, was to do what a friend of mine did. Little by little she cut the nips off of each pacifier until eventually her kid didn't like sucking on it anymore.

ChelseyMiller · October 2011

I'm not sure if this will be helpful or not. Jackson never really took to a binky, though I wanted him to. Instead he used me for his paci. Eventually, when he got older, it was just to the point of being annoying to me, like he'd just come up and want to nurse for a few minutes (getting no milk) and then go off and play, 15 minutes would go by and he'd do it again. I noticed he was fine without doing that when we were out and about or just keeping busy, so I knew it was time to try to get him to stop, since I thought he was doing it just out of boredom. My method was distraction. I carried a sippy cup with milk in it everywhere, and every time he came up and pull at my shirt to nurse, I'd turn him around and sit him on my lap and offer the sippy. Usually he would take a few sips and then walk away. After a while he just started asking less and less. He does still nurse to sleep at bedtime and nap time and I have no idea how to break that habbit (he won't take a binky or bottle and only sips at the sippy a little at a time). And for the record, I don't think Evie is too young for a paci, obviously if so many of us are having these same types of issues with comfort items (whether it be boob, paci, or bottle) they still need it at this young of an age. Now if she is constantly walking around with a paci in her mouth, then maybe it needs toned down a bit. My 2 cents.

heatherkj · October 2011

We took the opportunity to get rid of it at 10.5 months. She had always used it for bedtime, and sometimes for car rides or if she was cranky, but she wasn't one to have it in her mouth all of the time. She got to a point where she was launching it out of the crib on a regular basis, then crying when she couldn't get it. So, one night, we just didn't go in to get it. She cried/whined for a few minutes, but then fell asleep without it. She woke up way earlier than normal the next morning, and then the second night was a little rough (she took a while to go to sleep and then woke up a lot), but after that, she went back to her normal sleeping schedule and she hasn't had one since.

TeacherTiff · October 2011

N weaned himself when he got teeth, and I was thankful! I can't stand to see kids who can talk/walk around by themselves (so, 2+?) with one- but that's a personal pet peeve. If he hadn't been weaned already, we would've started at 1 for sure.

mrsjanks · October 2011

I got very lucky on this one... he stopped taking it at about 4 months when he found his fingers.

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