We try to limit its use to bedtime, but she seems to want it often. thank you.
2007-09-22 02:19:45 · 28 answers · asked by audrey_hepburn_rulez 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
I had to go cold turkey with my daughter and she was VERY attached to it. She cried herself to sleep the first night and at naptime the following day. She cried a little while and was still sniffling when she went to sleep the next night and the following nap. But by the third night she wasn't even asking for it. My pediatrician told me it would take two to four very hard nights. I was lucky it was only two. But make sure you don't do it right before or after a big change in routine or lifestyle. And make sure you do it when she's not sick and when you have the opportunity to sit up rocking a squalling two year old all night. I will tell you from experience that it will be better to break it now instead of later. Make sure that you offer her a blanket or stuffed animal to pacify her instead. Oh and I had to modify my answer b/c I read that lady's answer above me about cutting a slit in the base...DO NOT CUT THE PACIFIER IN ANY WAY. Any damage to the nipple can cause it to become detached from the base and it can be sucked into the windpipe and even at almost 2 her windpipe isn't wide enough to let it pass. She could choke to death.
2007-09-22 03:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by ¤¤Je§§ica¤¤ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Set standards with the use and only use it then. Children are going to cry when they want something you have to be the adult and not give it to her until bedtime. Try giving her finger food or something to replace it during the day. It won't take long to break her habit of daytime use. A pacifier will harm her teeth.
2007-09-22 02:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we did this with my daughter and it worked its a few months till Christmas but start telling her now that Santa has to take the pacifier to give to another baby on Christmas hang the pacifier on the Christmas tree when she gets up Christmas morning the pacifier will be gone make a big deal "oh santa took the pacifier to another baby how nice" my daughter thought that was neat she felt like a big girl and never asked for it again good luck
2007-09-22 02:32:47 · answer #3 · answered by firebird 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have a couple of options. 1. Throw it away. Period. 2. Slowly start cutting the tip until it no longer feels right and she doesn't want it. 3. Have her throw it away herself. 4. tell her that the pacifier fairy is going to come and take her pacifier while she's sleeping and replace it with a toy. 5. Have her give it to someone's new baby (obviously they don't have to keep it, but just pretend to be super appreciative for your daughter)
2007-09-22 03:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Sit'nTeach'nNanny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have a very good friend who had this problem with her 2 yr. old daughter. One day she cut the end of the pacifiers
off and gave it to her like there was nothing wrong. Her daughter brought it to her crying. She simply explained to her daughter that her "bink" was broke. Believe it or not, it worked. Her daughter told everyone "no bink, bink broke". That was the end of the pacifier. It's worth a try.
2007-09-24 03:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by sali s 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try smearing the pacifier with a food she doesn't seem to like. Then when she doesn't want the pacifier, it'll be her idea and in the end, easier for her to give up.
2007-09-22 02:26:42 · answer #6 · answered by airjarrod 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want to wean her then when she wants it during the day, ask her to help you look for it, then find something else to distract her. If she insists then sometimes you could give it to her, then when she says something, take her paci out & tell her you can't understand her. Keep distracting her from it & when she doesn't have much during the day then take it at night.
If you want it gone now you will just have to take it, as hard as that is. You could try one of the things mentioned in your other answers like the paci fairy, another baby needs it, cutting the tip, but all of them will have the same result - she will want it & cry when it's bedtime! =( so, it will be hard.
Remember though, if she is truly not ready she may pick up another habit, like sucking her thumb & that's a much worse habit and much harder to break!
2007-09-22 03:34:57 · answer #7 · answered by jon jon's girl 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What I did for my daughter .. One day we were getting into the car to take a drive and it fell out of her mouth onto the ground outside. She didnt realize it wasn't with her til a few mins later when we were already in the car. I told her it dissapeared. I gave her different activities to do, kept her busy, you know. I also told her ehhh we're a big girl we don't need that thing(I did say it like a hundred times that day haha)when she asked for it. She did cry off and on for a day or so, but eventually, she forgot about it. Hope this helps.
2007-09-22 02:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by Kelly K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well i saw it on super nanny lol.. tell her that theres lots of other little girls in the world that dont have pacifiers and need some so u put them in a bag and hang it in a tree and tell her the pacifier fairy will come at night and leave her a prize. so just take the binky bag away after shes sleeping and then put a bag with a new toy in it in the same spot and give it to her in the morning.
or just throw them all out but keep one for severe times
2007-09-22 02:27:03 · answer #9 · answered by Blondie131 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Throw it away and that's that. Just take it away. Maybe offer a blanket or stuffed animal in it's place. She'll scream, cry, yell, have tantrums... My children stopped using the pacifier after about a month after birth.
2007-09-25 16:21:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋