Giving up the Pacifier???

Super Nanny has the Pacifier Fairy come and take it away for the other babies who really need it, than she leaves a present for the one who cared enough to give away their paci to others. I saw her do this with several and one placed them in the mailbox over night for the fairy to get. Just a thought!

I'm glad that it worked out for you, A.. I'm only replying at this late stage to encourage you to stay in tune with your baby, and you'll know the right timing for everything. It happened like this because it's time.

With mine, I don't let them talk with it. I just won't even listen. I let them know--gently, of course--that they need to take it out to talk. Then, it's okay if they pop it back in. From the start, I let them use it for comforting and entertainment only; I don't let them walk around with it all day, just to have it.

I just took my daughters away last week. The dentist said it was affecting her bite. I bribed her, and found it relatively easy. But I will say this she lost it during the day LONG ago at about 12 months and only got it at nap and bedtime. She is not napping for me anymore, but she was already moving away before I took her binky away. I just told her we lost it and she could get a new one at Target the next morning she went to sleep and woke up asking to go to target. So we went to the binky isle and took a package to the toy isles. She spent a long amount of time looking at all the toys and really wanted something. I told her no because we were getting binky's she looked confused for a minute then I offered her to put the binky's back and get the toys. She hesitated, and I told her it was the only way. She agreed! She was so proud of her self, and even a couple of customers praised her. That was it. She asked for it one day, and I told her OK, but we have to bring your new toy back. She fussed for a minute, and I pulled out the package the toy came in and started to put it back in the Target sack. She decided against that and I never heard about the binky again!! So 15 bucks and it was over. She was so HOOKED to it it was nuts. Asking ALL day for her bink and me telling her no not till bed ALL day long and she would fuss and whine. NOTHING since the toy!!!! Good luck!!!

This is what we did and it worked for us. First we limited the pacifier to naps and bed only. So my son was not allowed to walk around with it or use it in the car, store etc. Then when we finally thought he was ready to give it up, (after talking about how he was a big boy and didn't need it etc.) I cut the tip of the pacifier off. He sucked on it for about 2 seconds and decided he didn't like it and then threw it away himself. We made a big deal about it and how the pacifier was gone and he was a big boy etc.

I know other people have been successful having a bye bye paci party where they allowed their child to throw it away and then had cake and celebrated that he was a big boy.

Allowing her to throw it away herself give her control over the situation and she won't feel like you are taking it away from her but that she had some say in the decision.

You can try the cold turkey idea, but I don't recommend it because it is stressful for all involved!

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

I would at least talk to her and suggest it's time she a big girl and retire the pacifer. Right now, you're just full of assumptions and worries about what might happen without any facts. I think the toy exchange that another response mentioned worked not so much because it was a bribe, but because it was an affirmative choice and decision made by the new "big girl." So, at least give her a chance to make a choice, that's probably why the pacifier fairy idea works too - the child is choosing to move on - giving them a positive dose of growing up, not just a growing pain with loss.

I too have a 2 year old daughter who just turned 2 last week. I swore I would never have a child over 1 that had a binkie, but boy was I wrong. A few weeks ago I started having her binkie only for naptime...it upset her,but only for a few days. The other day (literally 2 days ago), I decided that enough was enough and it was time to get rid of the binkie. I cut the tip off (which I heard is a good way to have a child stop on their own, because they don't like how it feels, and it is hard too suck). I showed it to her and told her "Oh no, it is broken", and let her put it in her mouth...she didn't like it said " uh-oh binky is broken", so we talked about throwing it away, and then she went by hsrself and threw it in the trash. I before that threw all the extras I had away, so I couldn't back out later if/when she got upset. That night she was upset, but I kept going in and reminding her the binkie was broken and we had to throw it away. I would re-tuck her in and remind her she had her blankies and stuffed animals she sleeps with. The next morning the first thing she said was "binkies broken", during naptime she mentioned it once but I only had to go in a few times. Last night she went to bed with out it, and with very little fussing. I have a feeling that tonight will be even easier. Good luck to you, tehre is some good advice on this website, hopefully some of it will help you out.

I would get rid of it now. My daughter also loved her pacifier, but by this age it interfers with their speech and their teeth and mouth development. It caused my daughter to have a tongue thrust which she now has an appliance in her mouth to correct. It typically only takes 3 days for them to adjust to be without it. Start by making a small hole in the tip of each pacifier. Each day make the hole a little bigger. When your daughter complains about it tell her that they are warn out from being used so much so it's time to throw them away. Let her decide when to throw them away which she will probably do quite easily because they won't work.

GOOD LUCK AND STICK TO IT!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!! :)

we just decided to pull the plug on our son's pacifier use last month. It was a tough decision -- part of me said it was no big deal and that we should let him do what brings him peace and what helps him sleep, but the bigger part said i didn't want my child reliant on some outside object. also, we worried that he was waking up in the night to find it.
we went cold turkey when he was 16 months old. the first night was pretty rough -- two straight hours of crying! the next three nights were better, but still bad. (we never caved) after that, everything was fine. It's been a month and I feel like we made the right decision.
i'd say either do it now before school starts (on the weekend) or just decide to be at peace with her using a pacifier until she's ready to give it up on her own.
(i would say to limit it as much as possible to bed, to keep them out of sight at other times and to not really talk about them.) good luck

My husband sat next to a woman on an airplane flight. They got to talking about their respective kids... She had a son a couple years older than our daughter. She said something that stuck with him... "When my son turned 2, I took away the pacifier cold turkey... If I had to do anything over again, I would let him have it until at least 3. Because once he lost it, I lost all leverage (in regard to getting cooperation, good behavior, etc.); I no longer had anything that he really, really wanted."

With that, he has asked that we not forcibly 'pull the plug' until she's 3. Although she can't have it unless it is bedtime and goes the whole day at daycare (even daytime nap) without it.

I also noticed, when I tried to take it away when she was 22-24 months, she started sucking/gnawing on her fingers. I would rather her have the pacifier instead of redirecting the habit to thumb sucking--that is a much much harder habit to break. And I don't want her sucking on blankets as those are harder to keep sanitary, especially once the child has dropped or dragged the blanket across the floor.