My son is 11 months old today. I took his bottle away when he was about 8 1/2 months to 9 months and he has adjusted really well. i had no problem with getting him to take a cup and never cried for his bottle. His binkie on the other hand is his secruity and he is attached to it really bad. So my question is how old was your child when you took the binkie away completely. How did you go about doing it.
2006-07-28 05:33:37 · 19 answers · asked by pebbles68701 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Great job on taking the bottle away! I did at the same age with 2 of my children. My son lost the nuk at about 20 months or so. He was at daycare and missed the chair and landed on his bottom on the floor. Well, in that process he bit through his tounge. So he couldn't use it. Kind of luck I guess. My daughter was about 2 when I took hers away. It was kind of a process of elimination. I only allowed it after a year old at naps, car rides and bed times. Slowly but surely eliminate one at a time and in due time they will realize they don't need it anymore.
Also the Binky Fairy idea is good. Do it like the tooth fairy and replace it with a better security item like a teddy bear or character pillow.
Good Luck
2006-07-28 06:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by a.kranz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I took my son's binkie away when he was four months old. It was pretty easy to do, he got his first 2 teeth in at 4 months so he didn't care as long as he had something to chew on and he was more interested in that than sucking on a binkie
2006-07-28 05:38:02 · answer #2 · answered by ktwister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New infant in 2 months is going to be a tremendous adjustment for him. So is dropping the binkie, popping out of the crib, and potty coaching. With purely 2 month to head, you extremely purely have time to make one important replace. i ought to choose getting him out of the crib, myself. maximum little ones regress (go backwards) at the same time as a sparkling infant comes. in the adventure that they are those days potty educated, they go properly back to injuries. you ought to attempt some nights without the binkie (pretend that's lost, so that you do not lose face once you are able to "locate" it back) and if he's settling ok then you certainly win. yet i ought to attend. Get him out of the crib, so that's waiting for the baby. enable him keep his binkie for safe practices with all the different transformations a sparkling sibling will convey, and keep potty coaching for at the same time as he extremely seems waiting.
2016-10-15 10:13:31 · answer #3 · answered by coombe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My niece and nephew were both about 3 months old when my sister-in-law took their binkies away. Yes, it's difficult, and yes, they'll throw a fit about it, but you just have to stand firm and let them get over it.
2006-07-28 05:37:30 · answer #4 · answered by Julie B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We never gave it to either of our daughters after leaving the hospital. We had no problems. Thumbs are natures' binkie.
2006-07-28 05:38:38 · answer #5 · answered by Keeptalkin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just threw them all away. My son was about 10 months old and one day I told him he didn't need it because he was a big boy and threw them all away while he was sleeping. He asked for it for a couple nights and cried a few minutes when I told him they were all gone and then he got over it. Much easier than dragging it out.
2006-07-28 08:01:46 · answer #6 · answered by totspotathome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i find that the best way would be to have the binky be only for bedtime or in times of teething...my baby girl still has hers but only b/c it helps her while she's teething and i also only use it when she naps...she's 16 months...but i know that if i never gave it to her again, she'd be ok...b/c she doesn't see it except when she's going to bed...in fact, when she sees it, she runs b/c she knows she's going to bed...
have it be associated with something and you'll find that you're baby will forget about it....out of sight, out of mind
2006-07-28 05:40:17 · answer #7 · answered by tigrisow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 yrs old
I suggest the "Binky Fairy"; take the binky in the middle of the night, and leave a tricycle :)
2006-07-28 05:37:26 · answer #8 · answered by Pam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's fine until they are about a year, Or so i've heard.. I bet if you took it away he would cry for a while, but by the end of the day he would ahve forgotten what it was. JUst don't leave any around that he will spot and remember.
2006-07-28 05:36:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I threw it away, while he was sleeping...and when he brought it up, I would get something else to grap his attention. Like grab a book, play a game, have a snack, he'll forget about it quickly! And do it soon, nothing looks worse than a kid walking around with that thing it's his mouth!
2006-07-28 05:37:46 · answer #10 · answered by RIA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋