I have a 10 month old that likes her 'passy' I want to get rid of it because I dont want it effecting her teeth and her speech development. I dont know really how to start!
2006-06-13 04:53:01 · 18 answers · asked by Shelly P 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
6 months or when they start getting teeth. try giving her something else besides her passy. something she can put in her mouth.
2006-06-13 04:55:47 · answer #1 · answered by valentine1415 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fastest thing to do is just to take it away cold turkey. Cutting up pacifiers is not recommended because pieces could theoretically come off and choke them. And putting lemon juice or hot sauce (which is a frequent response to this question in Yahoo Answers) is just cruel. But getting her off it the sooner the better is best in the long run. And "cold turkey" is the quickest. You usually just have to put up with one or two days of fussiness.
We don't really have a definitive time to say what is the best time to "get off" the pacifier, because it's not something that is recommended to begin with, which is why you'll get lots of different answers.
Generally, though, I tell my patients' parents to get them off the pacifier NO LATER than 18 months, but the sooner the better. Putting it off only makes it harder.
Good Luck!
2006-06-13 15:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by cardboard cowboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my oldest daughter was 18 months and gave hers to our new puppy she could speak in a complete sentence using 4 or more words by 18 months. my youngest daughter was 2 1/2 when she finally lost her last pacifier and we told her no more, she could count to 18 by 18 months and she could also speak a complete sentence using 4 or more words by 18 months. both of my daughters spoke clear and you could understand what they was saying. my son on the other hand is 6 months and refuses to take a pacifier and sucks his thumb.
so pretty much you can either wait for the child to do it on there own or if you want to just take it away then do it when ever you feel like you can handle it because if you just take it away and she isn't ready you will have some fussy days a head of you.
good luck
o and both of my daughters have perfect teeth and they are 6 and 4 and no speech problems.
2006-06-13 12:01:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We didn't get our daughter off her passey until she was 28 months old. Our doctor said try to get her off of it by her second birthday, so we were close, but her teeth are fine and so is her speech.
We started by hiding them (we still had them around if we had a crisis) and then we eventually threw them away. We just kept telling her "you don't need your passey anymore because you're a big girl now". She asked about them, but we were really consistent and we offered her other things like gum and tic tacs which seemed to take the edge off.
I hope that helps! Good luck - I know it's hard, but it is possible.
2006-06-13 12:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by headshrinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most pacifiers are supposed to not affect teeth development so i wouldn't worry about that. and as far as speech development, just don't let her have her passy allllll day. just when she needs it, before naps and bedtime. you can try weening her off of them by not letting her use them any other time than sleep time. she should wean herself. good luck!
2006-06-13 15:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by msmayasmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like what Katct suggested, we just took my daughter's pacifer away and delt with her screaming. We did it cold turkey when she was about 6 months. We got her on the sippy cups around 7 months and on cups at about 11 months. So she's using cups all the way, but she has her own special cup though.. She has to drink out of that cup only, which can be a draw back... but atleast she's using a cup. She's turning 2 in the fall now. They grow up so fast...
2006-06-13 12:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by dukeofhmong 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never let mine have it after 5 months.Just take it away and throw it out.Cold turkey.It will make her mad she will look pitiful and it will break you heart , but nothing is worse than seeing these big kids with pacifiers hanging out of their mouth. At ten months she should be using a sippy cup.Those pacifiers are for little babies that suck allot and might over eat.Not for little ones with sippy cups. More than likely she has just gotten used to it and if you let it go she will be having to take it out of her to talk.My opinion that if they are big enough to pull it out or put in they are to big.
2006-06-13 12:00:57 · answer #7 · answered by shortpplrule01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son could not live without his "fafa". One day we went out of town and forgot to bring it with. He got through that day because he was so busy with his cousins that he forgot about it. When we got home I threw them all away, and everything has been fine since! The "fafa's" were always in a drawer, and he looked for them a couple times. But they weren't there and I told him they were all gone......no problem! I thought it would be a very difficult thing, but it was easy!
2006-06-13 12:04:21 · answer #8 · answered by 2hot2handle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would start now so hopefully at 1 she'll be off of it. She'll be mad for a while but in two months or so she'll be OK as long as you take it away Completely.
2006-06-13 13:02:47 · answer #9 · answered by neiciadpj 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I broke my youngest son from the paci and bottle at the same time...at 1 year old. To me it was easier. I made a huge mistake with my oldest son.....I broke him from the bottle at 1 but let him keep his paci....which he also loved and grew too attached too. The earlier you break them from the paci...the easier it is.
2006-06-13 12:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by bettyboop1978 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋