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We are officially pacifier-free!

MoestenMoesten
in Cincinnati Babies
Hooray! We waited longer than we should have but I finally followed the advice of an orthodontist friend and a dentist friend and cut the tip off. She was only using it at night and naptime.  I have to admit that night three was pretty rough but here we are 5 days into it and we have had no trouble recently with bedtime or nap time.  Thank goodness and good riddance!
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Re: We are officially pacifier-free!

  • buckeyethorbuckeyethor
    awesome! congrats! i wish i could get audrey to stop eating her satin lovey. it makes me want to vomit the way she chews and sucks on it. it gets so smelly.
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  • Brougham7-15-06Brougham7-15-06
    That is wonderful!!! Congrats to you!  I was so excited the day we became paci free....and super shocked at how easy he took to the idea of no paci...(we just did naps at bedtime for the longest time too).
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  • sistrkatesistrkate
    Kristen, how much did you cut off of the end?  We are going to have to do this too.
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  • Lyons_in_2007Lyons_in_2007

    Hooray for no pacifier!  I so wish that we had gotten rid of them a few months ago.  I think it would've been far less *traumatic*.  Now, he literally cries for them, reaching out like we've taken away his best friend.  It's pitiful.  I really dread this transition...

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  • MoestenMoesten

    imagesistrkate:
    Kristen, how much did you cut off of the end?  We are going to have to do this too.

    All of the rounded part plus a little bit more. There is still enough of a stub left that she can still put it into and hold it in her mouth if she wanted. Does that make sense? 

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  • Megs&NickMegs&Nick
    Way to go K!  Such a big girl!
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  • cat81305cat81305 member
    YAY!!  Congrats!  It feels awesome doesn't it!  We are going on a week and a half without it and we are excited that it is gone!!
    Our kids are 19mths apart and we LOVE it!!

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    DS born 2.14.08. DD born 9.30.09.

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  • hav2runhav2run
    Yay!  I am jealous.  So, you just cut off the tip and she lost interest?  Did she throw a fit?  I can see DD bringing me the binky in a screaming fit and saying "Binky broken.  Fix it."  I am scared to try.
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  • MoestenMoesten

    She looked at us like "WTF?" She knew it wasn't quite right.  The first night she tried to go with it.  Night two she threw it out of the crib.  When she woke up in the night I had to go in and calm her once. Night three she was pretty upset for about an hour trying to get to sleep. Night four she threw it out of the crib again and went right to bed. Same thing with nights 5 and 6, just going right to bed. 

    We cut off all of the rounded part plus a bit a more. Friends of ours who are a dentist and an orthodontist respectively recommended that because it takes away the suction when they suck on it so they lose interest. Seems to be working so far. 

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