How to Get Rid of Pacifier

I have several friends who successfully did the gradual snipping. Snip the tip, then every 3 days, snip a little more until the rubber is gone. And, you're right on to do it as early as possible!

However, my son didn't follow the "rules" about getting over it quickly! We snipped the ends at 20 months and my son was so sad, and had sad bedtimes for nearly 2 months after we got rid of the paci's. After I realized he was grinding his teeth after he finally went to sleep, I bought two new pacis. Two months later we took it away again and he didn't have a single problem.

Just throw them away. I actually saw this idea from another mom on here; I cut the part that goes in his mouth to show him it was broken. Well he still put it in his mouth and sucked on it. So I cut it completely off. I told him it's broke we have to throw it away, so while he was throwing one away I was cutting the others without letting him see. The first couple of days are rough, it's a habit for them. I think I was more worried about how he was going to do. He went to daycare, and kids in his class still had a pacifier, he asked for his the first day and his teacher told him it was all gone, and he was just fine from that point on. The best way to do it is cold turkey. It's just like ripping a band aid off, don't do slowly or it's going to hurt a lot more, than if you just rip it off. At bed time, I tried to substitute the pacifier with a stuffed animal or something, and it worked!
Good Luck...
My son was about the same age. He had to have tubes put in his ears, so once that was over then out went the pacifier.

We gave ours to Santa Claus at the mall.

I didn't want to give up my son's, too, but I had to. His dentist said his teeth were bucking out a bit. I just ended up cutting it off completely & letting him hold the plastic part while he went to sleep. It eventually fell underneath his bed, & he forgot about it. Good luck!

I haven't had to do this yet, but I heard a cute idea. Take her to build-a-bear, and when she "builds" her bear her pacifier goes inside, so she can have it with her always (but not use it).

Now, my tornado daughter (23 months) would figure out a way to tear the thing apart to get her pacifier out. We haven't tried to take hers away yet, I am working on weaning (bfing) first, then we'll do the pacifier thing!! My boys all gave theirs up when they got teeth (8 months & 10 months) so this is sooo new to me!!

Good luck

I cut a hole in the end so it lost the suction feel. She was confused for a bit then just wanted to throw them away after 3 days. You're supopse to keep cutting more and more weekly but we didn't get that far. Good luck!

I am a big believer in cold turkey. You will be amazed at how easy it is. My oldest son doesn't hardly have any pictures without his paci before he was 15 months old and I decided to take his paci away cold turkey. He was fine! He never missed it! I think I was the one afraid!

I did it cold turkey as well. My son was about 18 months at the time. I had him help me gather his pacifiers up and then together we threw them away. (We did this with the bottles too.) Mostly I threw them away so I was forced not to cave in when he cried. He had trouble falling asleep for about a week or so but he worked through it like a champ! I never regretted it!!

Cold turkey is how we did it too. My son is 3 years old and was a paci addict until LAST WEEK. I had it down to just naps and bedtime, but somehow he managed to get it all day and in the car and it was just out of control. I took it and cut the tip off last week and he cried for about 15 minutes at nap and 5 minutes at bedtime. The paci fairy came and left him a toy while he was sleeping and when he woke up I told him that she came and took the pacis to all the crying babies. He understood and hasn't asked for them since!

I am with the pediatrician. Do it cold turkey. What we did, and it happened by accident at 18 months, was have a babysitter come one night. She didn't know that DS needed his "binky" to go to bed. She put him to bed with the usual routine, he cried a bit, she reassured him, and he went to sleep. I was so stunned when I got home, that I realized, "he can do it!" and never offered it to him again. He fussed, and it was hard to get him down for a couple of days (for naps and bedtime) but we worked our way thru it.

If you can reason with your daughter, tell her also that it can hurt her mouth. We had friends who allowed their son to use his thru preschool. When he went to the dentist to prepare for entry to Kindergarten, they learned that he'd done so much damage to the formation of his mouth and upper teeth from using the pacifier, that he was in for some serious dental/orthodontic repair. That's not fair to put a kid thru that.

Good luck!

My son was 3 1/2 before I could get him off of the pacifier. But when I did, it happened almost overnight. I had someone suggest to me to gather up all of the ones that he had stashed all over the house and throw them away, and then when he wanted one, they would be "lost." And the one remaining, cut the tip of it off with scissors. Then when you give it to them, they think it is "broke." And they don't like it like that. I couldn't believe how easy it was. It's always worth a try....good luck!

T.