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Soon2BMrsWiley
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Weaning from the pacifier
Soon2BMrsWiley
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Has anyone done this? I am SO tired of the dang paci being in every other picture of DS and since we use the Soothie pacifiers, I really want to ditch them before all his teeth come in. And I figure the younger he is, the easier it should be.
Any tips? TIA.
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Re: Weaning from the pacifier
We actually had an easier time with this than I expected. It was a couple weeks before DS's first birthday and he had his top and bottom 2 front teeth. He chewed/bitten the tip open so at this point I felt like it was just a toy to him. Not to mention I thought it was a disgusting, breeding ground for mold and bacteria that way, and I refused to buy another (he only had the one), so I just through it away one day after he went to bed.
The next day he didn't even look for it. It was just a little rough for naps and bed time the next day but really not a big deal.
So maybe cut the tip...see if he still enjoys it??
ETA: We also had an easy time weaning from the bottle so maybe my little one just didn't have a strong attachment to nipples...
I hadn't planned on doing it until close to her first birthday b/c we were told it helps with swallowing and is a soothing mechanism. Lydia doesn't HAVE to have it and she plays with it mostly with teething since she has one coming in and another on it's way.
I should also say it has helped with her spitting up. We just take the paci out b/f we take a pic. She never liked the kind James likes, we've always been on the "binkie" kind. She would spit the soothie kind out.
we ONLY let Avery have hers when she "needed" it - for naptime, bed time or when she was really upset - it was a savior after vaccinations. If she was content and happy, we never gave it to her - just because. I also made it very clear at day care to not just give it to her if she didn't "need" it.
Start with that first???
good luck!
Is he dependent on it? I agree w/Sarah, maybe cut back and just give it to him when he "needs" it. J could give or take his, but he sucked his thumb like nobody's business! I was so worried he wouldn't stop!