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im trying to brake my 18 month old from the pacifier. does anyone have any suggestion

We were lucky because our 18 month old really only wanted it at night. I just put him to bed without it one night and he did cry "ci, ci, ci" for a while but then went to sleep. The crying has lessened and he doesn't seem to miss it. Someone at church told me to cut a little part off each day until it was gone. One thing with that is he would put the entire top into his mouth and I didn't want him to choke.
Since we have taken the pacifier he has started putting everything in his mouth and biting. I would like to just give it back to him but my husband is staying strong.

We just broke Alayna last week- we used the passy fairy.-
We told her all week last week that we were going to take all her passies and give them to the passy fairy. We took them away from her in the am when she got up then she got them back Mon- Thurs for bed. Friday night we hid them told her we couldn't find any and to try to sleep in a different way. I told her to put her hand under the pillow one on top then lay her head on her hand- not even 15 minutes later the girl was out! We praised her and still do every morning when she gets up. We told her once she can go a whole week without them the passy fairy will come pick them all up and leave her a surprise. We are getting her the talking baby from Target she's been asking for it.

With us, we were pretty strict and took the pacifiers away at 12 months. We had seen family/friends who's kids used pacifiers until they were like 4 so we were way against that. So they were too young to understand any philosophy to the issue, we just took it away. Consistency is the key......that is my philosophy. Once you start, you have to follow through. I don't want to sound like I am military because I am not but I didn't want to make bad habits either.
I guess you just have to do what works best.

Yea , I wish I had stopped it early. I did stop the bottle at 12 months. The pacifier I made only for bedtime. So now she has had it only for bedtime for a year and a half.
I know she will not accept the fairy right now. I did cut straight across the top of one a few months back and she just kept holding it and asking her daddy to fix it. He caved in to her. So there went that.
I know It's prop too late now with the new baby coming soon. If she sees the baby's she'll want it. If this baby takes one, I will be sure to stop it at 4-5 months as they say the need to suck is diminished after that. So hopefully I can stick to it the second time around.
Why do daddy's always cave in??? haha

I made this thread our front flip lead in. I’ve had the cute colorful binkie picture for months waiting to discuss this topic. Since it's here it saved me the trouble of bringing it up.

I might have waited until I was ready to let Lilly give up her's. I know for SURE she isn't ready. I know I need to get on the, "get rid of the binkie bandwagon".

I was one of those moms that thought, “wow, that kid is too old for a binkie” in the past. Yeah, look where that got me!

Moms, it looks like me and babygirl need your advice desperately. I have never had to deal with this; none of my other kids really wanted a pacifier. Lilly was off the bottle at 10 1/2 months, that was her choice, not mine. She was just fine with her sippie cup and bink!

Lilly is definitely a binkie baby! Help!

I've heard that the binkie fairy works a lot. Especially if you make it into a big story where you describe to them what the fairy looks like and what she does. If you're kid is into fairy tales and the sort then I would definitely try that one out. Get them excited about it and tell them that the fairy takes binkies from kids who don't need them and gives them to little babies that don't have any . From all the moms that I've heard this from they say that it works amazingly. I personally do not have any kids, and won't be having any for a loooong time, but when the time comes I'm definitely going to use the fairy as my tool for success .


~Belle

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Originally posted by BelleM:
I've heard that the binkie fairy works a lot. Especially if you make it into a big story where you describe to them what the fairy looks like and what she does. If you're kid is into fairy tales and the sort then I would definitely try that one out. Get them excited about it and tell them that the fairy takes binkies from kids who don't need them and gives them to little babies that don't have any . From all the moms that I've heard this from they say that it works amazingly. I personally do not have any kids, and won't be having any for a loooong time, but when the time comes I'm definitely going to use the fairy as my tool for success .


~Belle

Shawn, I love the blinkie binky graphic! It's cute!

If you are wanting to break the paci in a positive way I really like the paci fairy idea and have heard great things about it from other friends! I think how one breaks a child from the paci also depends on parenting style. The fairy idea is a great approach for making it less stressful on the child and taking it away with out the child really understanding. I would say go this route! My son takes the paci at naptime and bedtime. He's almost 21 months. I'm a more child-led approach mama, so I'll more than likely let him self-wean from it as I begin to talk to him about more when he turns two. Then we'll probably end up doing the paci fairy so he can get a new toy! Good luck!! You'll do great!

ILL HAVE TO TRY THAT THE ONLY TIME HE HAS IT IS AT NAP AND BED TIME OR WHEN HE IS SICK

We haven't had a pacifier problem, but I would love to hear how you break your child of sucking his fingers.

My seventeen month old sucks his two middle fingers and I worry it will affect his teeth!

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My wife and I didn’t really do anything other than just take them away. When they hit 12 months we just threw them away, along with the bottles. We praised them for being big boys, after the first 2 – 3 days of tears and 1 or 2 temper tantrums, they saw we weren’t going to cave, they gave up and stopped asking for them.

Luckily for us, they never developed the habit of sucking their thumbs or fingers.

Kids are tougher and smarter than we sometimes give them credit for. Consistency is key. We never caved in because we threw them away the first day, so we had nothing to give them even if we wanted to. That helped a lot.

I cringe when I see a 3 or 4 year old walking around with a paci pinned to their shirt by a ribbon. I think the longer you wait, the tougher it will be.

i can't remember where i have seen this but i have seen a nail polish that tastes bad to make kids stop sucking there fingers. or i also heard that lemon juice works good(if they don't like lemons)
let us know what works if you try anything.

That is the reason my dear Lillian has a bink, because she would be a finger sucker if not. She loves her bink and would suck on it all day if I let her. When she is in a fret and "needs" the binkie and I deny her, she will then suck her fingers. I would rather her suck the bink than her fingers. I always thought, "I can take the binkie away but not her fingers" but now, not sure what to do.

I did buy the finger nail stuff at walmart about 3 years ago for my sisters boy. He started buting his nails real bad I think because his babysitter did. She has no nails at at! I think maybe he just thought that was the thing to do and got addicted to it.

I do remember it was no more than 3 dollars and I think Sally Hansen made it.
I wonder how it would do on a pacifier. hmmmm
My daughter would not get the fairy thing. Too many tantrums still happening daily. Now with another baby coming soon, yea right.

elidine,
I completely agree with you!! We did the same thing. Good to see someone out there thinks along the same lines and I am not crazy....LOL