Any on Tips for Pacifier Weaning

Try cutting a slit or a hole in the part of pacifier that goes in their mouth. It will go flat when they suck on it and many kids don't like it and will stop wanting it. Hope that helps.

We had two things that worked for us.
Cutting the tip and saying it is broken. Or sending it down a river or lake and saying goodbye to it being her decision. It will be a few long and hard days, but it will be for the best.

Hey A.,
I may be in the minority, but I am of the opinion that she is too young to take it away just yet.
You have already said she is having a hard time getting her feelings/needs/wants across to you.
I think waiting until she is old enough to understand why it is going away is better.
Then you can tell her the paci fairy has come to take her paci to the new babies.

It is soothing to her.
Right now she is going through a lot of changes.
Again, I can't stress enough how insightful that book (Making the Terrible Two's Terrific) is. I remember reading it when my daughter was about your daughters age and thinking "AHA!-I get it!".

I have a friend who is a teen mom and lives w/ her mom...it can be very hard.
Try and remember, all new mommies, regardless of their age, are learning on the job. Always! Me, at 31...my mom at almost 60. Always learning. :)

from your other question i am thinking she is 18 months old, if that's correct i don't see a huge rush to take it away. maybe start encouraging her to only have it at naptime/bedtime, i don't see how she could need it walking around walmart or something...but causing tantrums and fits over it, at 18 months old, seems a little extreme. maybe wait until she is 2 or so to really stress over this. just my two cents. (the messing up her teeth thing is incorrect, it may affect her baby teeth but her adult teeth will come in just fine as long as she's not taking a binky when they come in. having a binky at 2 years old won't affect them. this coming from a mom with generations of thumb-suckers in her family, i've seen it. so don't stress about that)

Cold turkey.
Really.

Anything less than that will just prolong the process by sending her mixed messages. Cold turkey - you'll have a few days of screaming, but then you'll be done with it.

Just get rid of it/them...if there is no pacifier, it will be very difficult to give her one.

Cut the tip and also send it to the post office in a box for the babies that need the binkies--- we did this and it helped alot!!! GL!

M

I snipped the end of the pacifier when it was time for my daughter to stop using it. Every day or so, I would snip a little more off the end. It was her decision to give it up after several days, as it just wasn't the same anymore!

Hide them all, take them away and never go back! She goes to bed at night with one and wakes up to none! Get over tantrums.... don't give them any credibililty!! Go mom!

I cut a hole in my sons at 16 months and told him it was broken. He was done after that.

Find them all and chuck them!! You'll have a few days of hell, then when your kids realize they're not coming back and you're not giving in, they'll give up and move on to the next thing. Promise. I did this with bottles as well, and it worked like a charm. BUH-BYE PACI'S!!

I just sent another suggestion to a mama asking for some ideas..here is a pretty helpful link with some great ideas..good luck!!

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I pick my battles and a binky is one of those things that harms no one or anything. Having that sucking motion is often very comforting and needed. If you honestly just have a need to take it away then be prepared for a much bigger battle when Jayden discovers their thumb or fingers or blanket corner or a toys ear. Then the bone damage that happens might require surgery or long term braces is not only required in the future but also a heavy expense.

I had twin girls that I thought would never give up the ole "pappy". I took them away at 12 months but felt it was too much for them because I also had taken away their bottles. Therefore I caved and gave it back to them. However, not for too long. At 18 months I took them away again. I first started by chunking all of their pappy's except for ONE set. One for each child. I let them get used to the fact there was only that ONE. Then after that I took those sets and I cut a thin slice on the very top. It was hilarious to see their reactions and every week I would cut it down one more. I think it honestly only took two or three cuts and they were absolutely done with them. I always felt like I a pacifer was best than a thumb.......they did fine with it until they hung out with their cousin and picked up thumbsucking. They are 8 years old and I still catch them thumbsucking. Usually when they are watching t.v. though or I have caught them at night at bedtime. I myself was a thumbsucker and didn't stop until I got my first set of retainers. I keep telling them that their teeth are going to end up looking like Donkey's on Shrek if they don't stop sucking their thumbs.

Hi A.

No she is not too young. You don't want her teeth to become affected. What I did with my dd is I threw them out. ALL OF THEM!! Then i made a big deal of not being able to find them, we hunted all over the house, in toy boxes, under the couch in drawers but surprise, surprise we couldn't find them. Honestly, she cried for 1 night and that was it. The reason I say throw them ALL out is if you keep even one you will find yourself backing down and giving it to her. Good Luck

Honestly, I let my kids have their paci's until about age 3, but at 1, they could only have it in bed, so if they wanted it, I put them in bed and said they needed to stay in bed with it. If they wanted out of bed, they needed to leave the paci. If you are consistant, it will work. You can also try loosing them, one by one, or you can try snipping the edge of it with sizzors and they will usually realize it doesn't "work" anymore. Or, just take it away cold turkey, throw it away so there isn't one for someone to give her, and then know she'll cry for a few days without it. I found it easier to get rid of it when it was just a bed thing.