Weaning Pacifier

you got a lot of great advice from everyone already but i just wanted to add a my two cents lol. My daughter was highly addicted to her "pat pat" but i got her off before 2. i tried cold turkey but she became very aggressive and started hitting people. so what worked for me was putting a hole in all of them. it doesn't feel the same and she told me she no longer wanted it and that was that.

My oldest & youngest sons didn't stop using the pacifier until they were 4 yrs old. Like you, I only let them use it during nap & night time. By the time they were ready for kindergarten, I told them they're big boys now and big boys don't use pacifiers. They were ready to let it go by that time. As long as you & your husband are ok with her using it only at nap & night time, I don't think it'll be a problem for her in the long run. She'll let it go when she's ready.

Hi, When my daughter was 3ish, we went cold turkey, but kind of by happenstance and it worked. I know one mom that had a ceremony with her daughter and said that her pacifiers needed to go to the pacifier fairy who would clean them and deliver them to new babies. I did it a bit differently. I was frustrated one day b/c she wanted her paci outside of her sleep time so I showed her me flushing them down the toilet and said "goodbye pacifiers"...even though I really didn't throw them into the toilet. She thought I did and never asked again. It wasn't my finest mommy moment, but it actual worked better than any other idea.

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Of all my 4 kids, only one of my boys were "addicted" to the pacifier. We had to have spares in the diaper bag, spares, in the glove compartment, spares at grandma's house, spares at home. Just to "pacify" him whenever he would misplace it. Walmart was the only place we found those light green ones, the ones just like the one he got from the hospital. The other kids would holler "Pacifier Alert" ...and you would see everyone hunting for the missing pacifier, last resort would be the spare ones. We would lose up to 3 or 4 at a time. As he got older, 2 years old, his teeth would cut through the pacifier, so, I would make him throw it away in the trash himself. There were a couple of sleepless nights, everyone in the home just had to "deal with it" ..... BUT well worth it. He was OVER IT by himself !!

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1) You could go cold turkey and just throw them all away. You will have to deal with a few days of crying and begging though.
2) Some people tell their child that they will send all the pacifiers to a baby who needs them. Have the child collect them and put them in a box, and take them to the post office. (just tell the postal worker to throw them away). That way the child has more control over the situation.
3) Have the child trade them all for a new toy
Good luck

I took my son's pacifier away when he was 18 months old. I just threw them away...he cried the first night and that was it. For a 29 month old, I suggest telling him that his pacifiers are for little babies, and he is a big boy. He might cry for a while at night, but you need to break him of it now because it could cause or already have caused speech delays at his age. You son will be fine...he will forget that he ever had a pacifier eventually! I've also heard fo cutting the tips off so they can no longer suck on it. Good luck!

Hi E.,
My daughter was 2 1/2 when she stopped using her binky. She too used it mostly for bed time and in the car. She was addicted to it. SHe had them all over the place and at bed time she would have 3 or 4 of them with her. Well, I became pregnant and didn't want her to have th binky when the new baby came. I didn't think she would ever get rid of it then. SO, I took it from her at nap one day and told her that the binky fairy came and got it. I explained that new babies were being born and they needed the binkies. I was amazed but this seemed to help. It was rough for about 24 hours. I had to go in to her room that night when she woke up and remind her that the binky fairy took it. But I gave her a stuffed animal to hold and that seemed to sooth her. SHe never wanted one again. HEr little sister was born about 6 months later and even though I was afraid she would regress, she hasn't. She just gave up that binky. So maybe a binky fairy could make a visit to your house too.
I hope this helps. Good luck.