What Did You Do to Help Your Child Give up the Pacifier?

We had a problem getting rid of my son's binky as well. We took the binky and cut the end of it so that when he sucked it would be different and it worked. So you might want to try that.

Hi M.! The only advice I can give in this situation is to gradually throw or take away one pacy at a time and when you take the last one away tell him that there are no more pacy's! He might cry a couple nights but he will eventually know that he is not going to get it! I guess that's all i can say! My son was off the pacy at 6 months old and off the bottle at 10 months old! He was drinking out of cups with straws at 10 months old! I couldn't even give him a sippy cup he pushed it away! Sorry if I wasn't much help, just a thought!
~B.~

Hey M. I have always heard the binky fairy coming to get the binkies, a friend of mine gathered all of her little one's binkies, took him to the zoo where the monkeys were, told him to pick the monkey he liked the best and then she told him that the baby monkey's need binkies really bad and asked if he would want to give the monkey his binky, he left them at the zoo and they never looked back! :) I think the snipping off more and more is the best way to go, my 2nd is almost 8 mo's and we are on our way to taking the bottle away , the binky is next

When I was ready to take my daugher off of the pacifier, she was currently obsessed with throwing things away. So, one day, after she bit me for her pacifier, I started a 'throw-it-away' game in which she happily threw her pacifier directly in the trash. I distracted her for the rest of the day until bedtime (the time she really demanded her pacifier). After listening to her cry for a little while, I gave her an extra baby blanket that I'd made for her, and she snuggled up to it and promptly fell asleep. The pacifier, after a time, is all about comfort. If you can find something that offers more (or an equal measure of) comfort, I think your child should be fine. I really hope this helps, and good luck.

My boys never took pacifiers, but I can tell you what I've heard other moms say they did. One would cut a bit off the end every day, til there was nothing left to suck on. Another started limiting when her child could have one, until it was down to just bedtime, and after a while, she just never gave it back, and her son never missed it. And another gave her daughter the choice of keeping it, or being a big girl and throwing it away. Her daughter threw it away herself, and that made the difference. But she was older, around 3.
I'm sure some others will chime in soon, tho, and have more things for you to try. Good luck!
(If it makes you feel any better, while my boys never took pacis, my oldest is amost five, and sucks his middle two fingers, and we're still tryign to break him of that! At least you can throw a paci away; all I can do is chop off his fingers, hahahaha! Just kidding, there, of course, but it's frustrating, ya know?)

J.

Ok we took the paci away around 18mos here. It was really easy to give up the bottle and he was done with by the time we was a year. I really didn't put as much effort on getting him off it . I was pregnant so it was my life saver. A month after my daughter was born we had to go on the great paci search. My son lost his paci and he only took the round paci. Which breaks down to 95% of paci are now orthodotic. That why I say great paci search. Well after hitting three store and finally finding one we got home and found his paci. That was the last time he had it. Because I vowed that next day forward I was going to look for the paci and here his baby sis didn't even take it . We went cold turkey. But he wasn't really taken but when he was extremely tired so it wasn't as hard as it could be . It took a few nights of listening to whine but once you do it make sure you stick with it. There serveral time where I wish I had it just so he stop whining special when he tired.But then I would have to it again.

If you dont want to do cold turkey . You could limited to he can can only have it in his bed. Which would require all spare paci to be left home when going out. That can be hard because I use to have spare one in the diaper bag and some at my mom's house. Then gradually work from there. After few weeks then you can gradually make the big step over night. But stay consist. That the best advice I can give you.

This is the best advice I ever received from a friend. Snip the tip of one of the binkies with a scissor. When he puts it in his mouth it will not appeal to him and he will spit it out and never use it again.

Good luck!
T.

Call me mean, but I just threw them out. My older daughter, for as much as she LOVED her nuk, didn't care in the slightest, which completely surprised me. My younger, that was a different story. She cried for a few days, but got over it. I threw them out more because I didn't want to give in. And I didn't want to be one of those moms w/ a 3 yr old and a binky hanging out of their mouth!

Good luck and remember, for as upset as he might get, he will not remember it when he's older =] K.

With my son, He started bitting it. And of course we kept buying him new ones. Then I thought, I'm not going to give him a new one. He bit a hole in it and didn't like the way it went flat..So he didn't want it anymore..
And with my daugher..I cut the tip off and let her suck on it for a little bit, she didn't like it either..So I said lets go throw it in the trash, It's broke.....And we did..She asked about it later that day, but i just tried to change the subject..It's a challenge at bedtime, but if you stick with it...Your son will forget all about it...
I hope that helps some..!
Good Luck!
A. Barrett

My son was 19 months when we got rid of his. What we did was start with only getting it at nap and bedtime. Then, after about 2-3 weeks of doing that, I cut the nipple in half so that there was no suction. I did it in the morning and sent him to daycare. His daycare provider took it out at nap time to give it to him, he put it in his mouth, pulled it out, looked at it, and then threw it out of his bed and said, "no!" That was it. No more paci! Good luck. Hope yours goes as well. Oh, I might also add that my son is the most difficult child I know, so getting rid of the paci that easily was such a blessing. Now, if I could just get the little turkey to poop in the potty, I would be in business!!LOL!

When my daughter was about 18 months old we started doing the binky only at nap time or bed time. When she was two we tried to just take it away, but she had a really hard time giving it up. However, she has always been my little cleaner. She is always picking things up of the floor, and throwing things in the trash. I had been telling her that her binky was yucky and she didn't really need it. One day, after I said that the binky was yucky, she threw it in the trash. Gradually they all ended up in the trash and she never asked for one again. You just have to find what works well for you child, but make it his decision rather than yours. If he feels like you're the one taking it away from him it will be harder for him. I've also heard about people putting them in a bag and telling the child that they're going to give them to babies who don't have any binkies. At any rate, he will give it up when he's ready, so don't stress too much.

congratulations M. on your son and your happiness! god bless ya! well my kid is 2 and she loves her binky's, oh boy. but here is what i ahev found to be true, as much as i didn't want to make it hurt i realized all of a sudden one day that my kid has grown pretty fast and that in a week she soon forgets what happened last week so i just decided to put the binky's away. i have not thrown them out and i did not do it in front of her. but when she looks for her binky i just find something else for her to do. distract and redirect. it is working great and i think her dentist will thank me. good luck!

M.,

WHen my daughter was about the same age, the "pacy" just disappeared one day! I told her that it was gone. It took a few days for her to to get over the initial shock of it "just neing gone", but that was the end of it. Every time she would ask for it, I would just tell her that it went bye bye. I got that advice from another mom, and deicded to try it...........luckily it worked. Good luck!

D.

My son was never really interested in a pacifier to begin with.

cut the tip of the nipple. let your child throw it away. there will be some sleepless nights but you will notice that your child will be just as tired as you and wont remember it after a few nights.

My friend just one night snipped a little off of the niple and each night she would do this and it kept getting smaller and smaller and her son did not want it any more.. She did not let him see her doing it, it just happened and of course at that age they do not know what to think.. Good luck...

My son was a binkie addict too. When I felt it was time, we started by simply only allowing the binkie at nap and bedtimes. In the morning, I would tell him that the binkie needed to go up until nap time and the same at bedtime. After a couple of weeks, we eliminated it at naptime. A couple of weeks later I just threw them all out and told him he wouldn't need them anymore. Be prepared though...my son started chewing his shirt almost immediately. That only lasted about 2 weeks though...I think he realized that wet shirts weren't nearly as appealing. The key is finding all the binkies in the house. I learned that my son kept "stashes" all over the place. Three months after we quit using them, I still found a couple every now and then under the couch or at the bottom of the toybox. Good Luck!

My son kept biting thru them. and I told him we were not going to buy anymore. so slowly get done to one. and tell him it is the last one. I thru mine out the window and was told if I did it was bye bye.. I cried from what I hear.. lol..

When my daughter was a little younger than that I cut the nipple off her pacifier. She got up in the morning and picked it up and tried to put it in her mouth. She kept trying and I told her the birdy bit it off and asked her if whe wanted something to drink from her sippy cup. That was the end of her pacifier. She never asked about it again. I was shocked that it was so easy. Not sure if that will work but you could try it!

Honestly maybe this seems cruel but my son was close to the same age when he lost his binky and bottle... I'm not sure he entirely understood but he kept chewing them so i told him when i bought the last set of binkies and nipples that i wouldnt buy any after that... sure enough when they was chewed and pitched i didnt... he didnt seem to miss either all that much though... so maybe i just have the odd kid out there was no troubles and he preferred a cup rather than the bottle ...

We will soon be starting this with our son, but with my daughter we started limiting when she could have it to just sleep times at around 18 months. After a few months of that we were just doing it at bedtime and right around 2 we got rid of it all together. Our biggest problem after that was she started chewing her fingernails, but that's a horrible family trait. Good luck!

With my son, who is now five, the "Binky Fairy" made a visit while he took his afternoon nap. One morning I had him help me collect all the binkies in his room and around our house and we put them in a ziploc bag outside the front door for the binky fairy to pick up. Over the few days before that I had bought a small little basket and filled it with some of his favorite little things....(fruit snacks, suckers, hot wheels, bouncy balls, etc.) I then threw the binkies out, I knew that if I didn't when things got rough I may have given in and let him have it back. When he awoke from his nap, he checked outside to see that the binky fairy had left him a present for being such a big boy and sharing his binkies with all the new babies that needed them. HE was absolutely thrilled and much to my surprise, he never asked for one after that. Not that all children are that simple but you could give this a try, worked for us and we never had any binky issues after that :-) Good Luck to you!!!!!!!