Pacifier Opinions

Lindee, I wouldn't worry about it. My Daughter is 18 months old and VERY attached to her paci. My doctor said that it is okay to let them have it until they are about two yrs old. My good friend suggested having a "Paci Bye-Bye" party. She told me when my daughter is ready to give it up to plan a paci bye-bye party as if I would with a birthday party (but not too extreme) Make a cake and load it with all her pacis with the nipples cut off and invite a few kiddos and whoever else and celebrate the day she says "bye-bye" to the pacifier!! She said it worked like a charm. So, needless to say that's exactley what I will do when that time comes. Hope this helps you out.

My youngest was a paci baby until he was about 10 months, then it was just when he was in bed for the night or nap time as well if he was sick or really upset. His Pedi suggested that by the time he was 18 months he should be weaned from his paci.

I tried several times and did not succeed so by the time he was 19 months he started chewing on his paci while he was in his crib right before he went down for the night. There were chunks of rubber on his mattress so that night I decided to take it away cold turkey. He cried for 1 night and a little the next day for nap but then after that he was fine. It was a lot easier than I thought.

Your daughter will probably be upset I believe that it is best cold turkey.

Good Luck
M.

I let both of my kids keep their pacifiers until they were two and then tried weaning them off, but that didn't work. It finally came down to me throwing them away because I would usually break down and give it to them after listening to them cry. We just told them that a fairy came and took the pacifiers to give to new babies who needed them. My advice would be to get them out of the house so that they are no longer an option. There will probably be a few rough nights, but it's worth it.

Lindee,

Hi my son took a pacifier and absolutely loved it. He had to have it to go to sleep. When he turned a year old he only used it at nap and bedtime. It started getting close to his 2 year birthday, and I wanted him off of it. When he was 22 months old I cut the tip off and told him it broke. He had like 4 so I cut them all and then made a big deal out of it and said oh my goodness all of your pacys are broke oh no!! He thought it was so funny. It worked and that was the end of it. He never asked for it again, he just said at times mommy my pacy is broken. I have a 3 month old and she will NOT take a pacy. The first 2 weeks she would try to suck on it but always spit it out. I have tried her on it again and she makes this face like she thinks it is yucky. Oh well I guess I wont have to worry about going through it again with her. My son was easy to get off the bottle too. I took it away overnight like cold turkey when he was 10 months old, and again he did fine. He was very easy, and now we are doing the whole potty training thing. He is trained except for the poop part. Well hope this helped, and I highly suggest trying the pacifier thing. Just cut one and see how she acts. Put the rest of them up so she wont see them and see how she acts with the broken one. Good Luck!! :)

J.

I did it cold turkey. One day I came home and decided he didn't need it anymore and threw them all away. He only cried for it for a couple of days. Good luck!

My daughter had her pacifier until 2 day before her 2nd birthday. At that time we started cutting a little bit of the nipple off at a time. WE would keep cutting until there was no more nipple. She would say that it was broke and we together threw them away. This only works with some kids. But we definately had to replace the pacifier with another object she could sleep with. For her it was a buenos noches Dora doll. Remember if you take away a soothing object you have to replace it with another.

With my three year old daughter I took her off the pacifer at 1 1/2 I just went cold turkey told her that we lost them I don't know if this is the best method but it worked! She really didn't seem to have a problem with it, I caught her a few times using some of her toys as a pacifer but I just told her that they were not pacifiers and she seemed to be okay with that and now has no desire for them. Good luck !

Hi! I had the same problem!! I let her have her paci until recently (she turns 2 end of July). I snipped the very end off of both pacis and gave it to her like I normally would. She was really confused, but I just kept reading her a bedtime story. She kinda cried going to bed, but 3 days later she wanted to throw them in the trash and she has had a couple of rough nights but nothing out of hand. We are paci-free! If the first snip doesn't work, I would continue to cut more off weekly. Good luck, I know it's not easy!!