How Do I Get Rid of the "PACI?"

You should try taking her to Build A Bear. Let her make an animal and have her put the paci in the bear while you are making it. This way she can't use it but she still has it. Or you could see if she will willing give it to you for the "Pacifier Fairy" who takes paci to babies who don't have any. Good Luck!!

Hi there! I am also a mother of a 2 1/2 year old daughter and 8 1/2 month old son! I am having the same problem with the paci!! I would love any advice that you get! I have tried everything!

C. M

One of the parents I babysit for had the same problem with her daughter, her dr. told her to cut the tip off, there is nothing to suck, she started that this last week, it was hard for the first few nights, but she is getting use to it.

Good news! I have a FOOL PROOF way to be rid of the binky! =) Start by snipping the very tip of the binky off with scissors. This will make it kind of yucky with a hole in it and she won't like it as much. Every couple of days snip a little more and a little more off of the nipple. By the end of it she'll be gripping onto that binky with her teeth so hard to try to keep it in her mouth, that soon she won't even want it anymore... guarenteed!

Well for starters you should have taken it away from her when she started walking. It will be harder now. You might be able to trade her something for it. My daughter had a blanket that she carried with her everywhere. we wrapped it up and gave it to Santa for christmas. things like that will work. you have to be creative. She will quit crying for it you have to just tuff it out. a couple of nights. Give her a glass of milk or ice cream before going to bed. They will help her to sleep. this may sound terrible I never thought of this when my children were little but get some simpley sleep and give her half a pill for a couple of nights. and she will be broke from the habit.

One friday after work and daycare. I just threw them away. He asked for it that night and cried a little bit. Went to sleep and have not asked for it since. He was so attached to it that I thought it would be a long weekend. He is fine and sleeps so much better now that he dont wake up looking for it. Although... He has went to the finger which I hate with a passion. But he puts it in his mouth for a second and removes it. Be prepared for that. Good Luck

We went away for a weekend....before we left I said "Do you think we have everything?" ...my son said "yes"......I left the binky at the hotel on purpose and when he asked for it I said "OH NO.....WE LEFT IT AT THE HOTEL".....he looked so said.....but I said "It's ok, because you are a big boy now and you don't need it....the hotel will give it to a baby when they find it" That night he woke up in the middle of the night and I repeated what I had told him earlier.....he never asked for it again. It's harder on us then it is them........good luck...hang in there!

My son't babysitter got rid of all the binky's at her house the week before saying to all the kids "Let's give all the pacifiers to the baby squirrels....." so they put them outside and when they weren't looking she grabbed them and said "Look, the momma squirrels took the binky's back to their babies.....that was so nice of you to do!!" It worked...they never asked for their binky's again.

J.,

We too had a daughter who was addicted to her paci. Hers was called a 'bubba'. We just couldn't seem to shake that naptime and bedtime need for it. It was such a soothing comfort for her.

We secretly threw all of her pacifiers away until there was just one left. A week or so before we took any further action, we prepped her; "Oh, Sweetie ... this is the last bubba. You're a big girl now, so when he gets too old, we'll have to say 'goodbye' to Bubba." Every night, we'd talk about how she was getting to be a big girl and how it was soon going to be time to give the bubbas up.
Then my husband (In a move that STILL wracks him with guilt) took a pair of scissors and snipped the end of the bubba.

"Oh dear," we said, "Bubba's broken. We'll have to say 'goodbye'." We let her hold it while sleeping, but discouraged her to put it in her mouth, saying that it wasn't safe - that the rest of it might come off while she was sleeping. She slept for the next few days holding Bubba and every night, my husband would cut off a bit more.
When we finally threw Bubba away, there were some tears but it wasn't as devastating as we'd expected. It was more of a "I miss Bubba. He was a good friend" And I think it was US more than HER that was stressing about it.

If that doesn't work for you, I've heard people using a "Pacifier Fairy" story just like the tooth fairy. -- much less scarring than cutting the bubba, I'm sure.

Good luck to you,
J.

I saw this on Supernanny ... I hope it's okay to share here. Tell your daughter the Paci Fairy collects pacifiers from big boys and girls who don't need them anymore to give them to other little girls and boys who do and don't have any and would like your daughter's help. Give her a big envelope addressed to the Paci Fairy, have her collect all her pacifiers and put them in the envelope and let her put it in the mailbox. Replace the envelope with one from the paci fairy with a thank you note and "fairy dust" (confetti) inside and let her find it the next day.

I thought this was a great idea. It not only helps your daughter give up the paci, it helps her learn to give and help others.

Good luck! My 4 1/2 month old found her thumb and now won't take a paci. I hope that won't be a problem when she's older!!

When my second was getting ready to enter the world I didn't want to have my oldest give up her paci yet and then revert once the baby was born. She did have one that got a hole in it and didn't want it after that. I put it up for when I was ready to break her of it and it worked like a charm. She did not want anything to do with it once it had the big hole in it and she could not suck it as well. Good Luck and don't get discouraged!

My brother recently went thru the same thing. They cut it down to naps & bedtime, then just bedtime then slowly cut out that. It took a weekend to break him completely from it, and he cried all weekend long at bedtime for it. Maybe you could move the baby into your room in a pack & play or portacrib and let the toddler cry it out for a weekend. It will be worth it in the long run. He now thinks that my son's paci are his old ones since they look the same (green soothie).

My 23 month old son didn't use his at daycare but as soon as I walked in the door he would whine for it and it would be in for the rest of the night unless I got him to take it out and really got him distracted playing with something. We were down to two as he was chewing through them. He really had a hard time teething. I remarked to him a few times that we were going to have to throw it away (he ignored me). Then one night at daycare when I picked him up I told him to take it back out so I could show him something. I showed him how it was "broken" because he had chewed through the side and told him he needed to throw it away. He looked at the paci, looked at the garbage can, looked at the paci and promptly put it back in his mouth. I didn't push it. We got into the car and he took it out and said "broken?". I said yes and repeated that it had to be thrown away. He gave it to me. One down!!! So we get home and he finds his other one which was broken too. I told him it needed to be thrown away. He went to the sink, we opened the cupboard, he pulled out the garbage and in it went. Then he wanted to be picked up so he could look in the containers on the counter where we kept them all. I showed him that they were all gone and that was that. Honestly it was that simple which shocked me to no end. I thought we would have screaming fits at bedtime but he asked once or twice and I just reminded him that HE threw it away. Now I won't say that we didn't have some nights with crying but that was because he was still teething, not because he was missing the security of the pacifier.

Good luck to you.

C.

I know this sounds awful but throw it away. Take her with you to the garbage can and throw it in. Make sure thier is something really nasty in the can when you do it. Then when you are done take her to the park our something else like that. Then at bedtime read her a story and hold her till she falls asleep watching a movie or cartoons. Pretty soon she will forget all about it. Make sure to tell her what a good girl she was last night for sleeping without it.

I only say this cause on the morning of both my boys' first birthdays we did the same thing with thier bottles and it worked great. My 13 and 5 year old are not scared (sp?) for life or anything because of it. You just have to be strong enough to get her through it.

Good luck!

You are doing the right thing. Start with letting her have it just for bedtime. Talk to her and let her know that soon she will be a big girl and big girls don't use paci's. Take her out and buy a cuddly stuffed animal to hug instead of her paci. Make it lots of fun and set a date on the calendar for her to see that it is coming, check the days off. Plan "the big night" when you don't have to get up early and you have time to deal with the crying. Keep reminding her that she is a big girl and now she can hug her dog, cat, etc. It won't take long but don't cave in. Don't go lay by her bed or pat her etc. You need her to soothe herself to sleep. My husband started laying by our daughter on the floor by her bed, I wouldn't do it. Guess who she called for in the night? He had to admit it was a bad idea :) Good luck!

My son was down to using it only during sleep. At that point, I cut the tip but did so gradually. Every day or so, I'd trim a little more. I told him that the PACI was going away because he didn't need it anymore. He wanted it until it was down to pretty much nothing, but it only took about 7 days.

Following up on the Paci Fairy comment. Years before Suppernanny was on tv, we came up with the idea on our own. Our spin, was to take our little one in the car and drive to the post office.

We told him the Paci Fairy gets them and had him have the fun of putting it in the mailbox pickup from the car. Seemed to work!

i have just went through this. She left it somewhere in the house. I told her if mommy and daddy finds the paci first it will be gone forever. No more binky. She was looking all over the place for it. Well I found it. I told my husband and he said "well now we have to keep to our end of the deal." I threw all of them away. I gave her a soft blanket and rocked her to sleep. Yes we have had a few rough nights. In the long run it is for the best.

She found one in her toy box yesterday. (thought I got rid of all of them) She had it in her hand and brought it to me and was shaking her head side to side as if she was saying "no-no". She walked to the trash can with me and we said "bye-bye" to it. She went back to playing. It does not bother her now that she does not have the paci.

To be honest I look back and I think that hubby and I depended on it more than she did. Sad to say but I think it is the truth.

We did this over a weekend. That way the other kids would not have to worry about enough sleep for school. By Monday we were good to go. She falls asleep fine now with her blanket. (no she does not carry it around either)

But at times she does carry her rabbit fur that my mother bought her. She loves soft furry things. it is really small. LOL Everyone freaks when I say she has her furry rabbit in bed with her. LOL

Well anyways good luck and just give your child something else to sooth em. a teddy bear, blanket, or even rabbit fur. anything can work.

good luck

A friend of mine cut off the tip of the paci and when her daughter asked about it, she replied, "uh-oh, it must be broken." That is the only reply she would use when asked over and over. Finally their little girl didn't like it because it didn't feel right in her mouth and she couldn't really suck on it so she quit. My kids are thumb-suckers...that's even harder! HA! Good luck!