What is the easiest way to break my 10 month old daughter from her pacifier. I want her to be off of it before she is a year old?
2006-10-19 02:46:20 · 17 answers · asked by lisa s 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I had that problem with my daughter also but I finally got her to stop using the pacifer when she was 2 years old. I tried to do it before 1 yr but it did not work for me because she would have tantrums if she did not have the pacifier.
I would always tell her that the pacifier is no good and it's for babies and she would repeat after me and say, it's no good. Then I would say yes, we have to throw it in the garbage. I started gradually making all of the pacifiers disapear and she gave me a hard time at first because she was so use too sucking on it at night, then she finally got use to not having it and now she is fine... Maybe you could try that... Good Luck to you!!!!
2006-10-19 02:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by Vicky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took my away from my daughter during the day and told her she can have it at night. Dont take away at that age that is to young wait till she is at least 15 months old. I also told my daughter that pacifiers are for babies and asked her are you a baby? She stoped using the pacifier.
2006-10-19 09:52:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres the old pacifier Fairy trick (you both take the pacifier, put it in a nice bag, hang it somewhere, and say that we need to see if the Fairy comes...then hide it somewhere but put a little prezzie in the bag and hang it back up...in the morning go see if the Fairy has been)...that's if she's old enough to realise. If not then you just have to keep it just for bed time then one night just take it away and don't mention it again. It might take time though.. good luck.
2006-10-19 10:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by aza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My suggestion would be to cut the end of the pacifier off. When you cut the end off, the pacifier looses it's appeal because the child is just sucking air. We tried it with my nephew and he stopped within a couple of days.
2006-10-19 10:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by panflan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Good for you. First limit it to the house for a week or two. Don't take it with you in public at all. Then limit it to bedtimes. You must commit yourself to helping her through this time, reading to her, distracting her, whatever, while she is going through "withdrawal". Only let her have it when she's going to nap or bed. Then it will be time to do it at bedtime. You will have to let her cry. If you can handle it, it WILL work. I broke my 2 1/2 month old son (at the time) of his pacifier and in two weeks, by the age of 3 weeks, he was completely paci free, had forgotten all about it, but it took some crying at nap and bedtimes first.
2006-10-19 10:58:21 · answer #5 · answered by toomanycommercials 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw them away. Make sure that your parents, daycare, babysitters all do the same thing. You will have to suffer through a few nights of your daughter crying herself to sleep. But, trust me, she will sleep eventually. The worst thing that could happen is for you to suffer through three nights of crying, only to have your mother or someone else give her the pacifier again.
2006-10-19 10:08:23 · answer #6 · answered by Answer Schmancer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently heard of someone tying all of the pacifiers to a helium filled baloon and letting them go that way. It kind of makes it fun and is very visual that the passy's are really gone, not just in the garbage. And I agree with the rest, cold turkey is the best way... after they are gone, they are gone.
2006-10-19 10:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by cj2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~The best way is 2 slowly ween ur daughter off the pacifer. Give it 2 her only at nite or hide it from her so that she will hav no choice but 2 be without it~
2006-10-19 10:15:05 · answer #8 · answered by jatoia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, pasifies come in sizes, dont buy bigger sizes. If you alrdy have, go back to the newborn one. Its less of a comfort but its not quite taking it away yet. With my nephew, my sister wouldnt let him have it but to sleep. Before he was allwed to get up from bedtime or a nap, he had to give it back to his mom/dad or my mom. He wasnt allowed to walk around with it or anything like that.
2006-10-19 09:53:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i broke my son of his pacifier at 10 months...one night when he fell asleep, i took it out of his mouth...the next night, i didnt give it back to him...he asked for it and when he did, i tried to focus his attention on something else...that night he didnt sleep very well, but the next night, he was fine...of course he kept asking for his binkie and all i said was, i dont know where they went?
2006-10-19 10:04:43 · answer #10 · answered by sherichance79 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋