How to stop my 1 year old Baby from the habit of using a Pacifier/Soother?

Answer 1

Buy some ear plugs and take it away.

Answer 2

I've seen it done two ways:
1) Take your kid to Build-A-Bear and have the pacifier put inside a teddy bear for them -- and make sure they see it being put in there. Then, they'll hopefully hug on the bear as a soothing mechanism.

2) Cut the nipple part off of the pacifier and give it to them. They'll be mad and cry, but eventually get frustrated with it and give it up. Be strong, it may take a few days. I have a three month old son and this is the method I think I'll try with him when he's a year old.

Answer 3

I have been a pre-school teacher for years! there are tons of different methods that I have seen but this one seemed to be the most effective...
Take the pacifier and gently shave the plastic a little bit once a day. Pretty soon he will realize it doesn't have the same sucking that it did before, and then before you know it, there is nothing there anymore! I have seen so many parents do this and it worked! Good luck, and you can do it!

Answer 4

Our babies were breastfed and never wanted a pacifier. I personally find pacifiers shocking in a baby's mouth - it seems like they're plugged up.

Here's the problem - your baby has a physical need to suck. This need is met by nursing for at least two years. Is your baby still nursing?

If not, how on earth is your dear child supposed to comfort himself without that pacifier? Are you aware that that is what the pacifier is for, to substitute for the comfort that comes from nursing?

Why on earth would you subject your poor child to the terrible stress of losing his pacifer? What is there possibly to gain by subjecting him/her to that?

Answer 5

throw it away. I don't know how this will work though cause the only thing I took from my son was his bottle but he got over that in a few days. He threw his pacifier out when he was 6 months old and never took it back.

Answer 6

start taking the pacifier away during the day and still give at naptimes, etc. Slowly but surely your baby will get used to not having it. Keep it out of sight too. My baby used to put it in his mouth when he saw it lying around so i made sure he didnt see it.Only at night time i gave it to him but took it away during the night. In the morning he woke up without it and wasnt bothered. Hope it works.

Answer 7

My daugther is 15 mths old and she is still on her paci. She only takes it when she is going to sleep. She has never taken it out of her room unless we are heading to the car. Whenever she woke up and went back to pick her up I would ask her to throw her binki on her bed and about 3 weeks of that she just started leaving it on her bed when she woke up.

She uses hers for comfort and I can't ask her to be sure but it probably makes her feel safe in the dark.

I will give her some more time to give it up on her own before I try and ween her from it.

Answer 8

I slowly just took it out of his routine. When he would fall asleep i would take it from him, and he never missed it. Eventually, he would fall asleep without it.

Or, like I did with my youngest, cold turkey. He cried for it for about a week, but after that week was over, ALL good! Then he didn't even want the bottle anymore!

Answer 9

Throw them away. That way when he cries, you won't be tempted to shove a pacifier in his mouth.

He'll get used to it in a few days.

Answer 10

You could try weaning her from it by making it taste "badly". Try dipping it in something she doesn't like the taste of before you give it to her.

Of course you COULD just not give it to her, but it's a little harder on the ear drums that way.

Answer 11

Start by only letting them have it at bedtime, then progress to not at all. They may be upset for a week or two and this will be hard for you, but be consistant and it will happen