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December 2010 Moms
heyitsme
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Pacifiers and bottles
heyitsme
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OK ladies, who wants to confess that their LO uses a pacifier and/or bottle still?
DS has both. He uses a pacifier for sleeping (naps/bedtime). At home he always seems to get one from somewhere and he'll use it until I snatch it away. He's getting more verbal and I HATE when he tries to say something with a paci in his mouth. HATE HATE HATE. We're trying having him deposit all of his pacis from his crib into a box post-sleep, but putting the last paci in the box brings a lot of tears. 
Hopefully soon he'll catch on and it won't be as much of an issue. He's an excellent sleeper so I'm not ready to pull the paci from sleep habits just yet.
DS also gets a bottle before bed. DH is a softie and gives him a bottle for just about any drink during the day, but most days he gets just the one before bedtime. I figure, if nursing had worked for us, I'd still be nursing before bed... so a bottle before bed I'm OK with. We always brush teeth afterwards and he goes right to sleep. I'm trying to break DH of his give-him-a-bottle-whenever habit. I think I'm going to toss all the bottles but one and hide the one so only I can get it out before bed. 
Mom to J (10), L (4), and baby #3 arriving in July of 2015
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Re: Pacifiers and bottles
Guilty - DS loves his paci but he only gets it during naps, at night and for very long car rides when he is likely to nap (2.5-3hour stretches). We are also still giving him a bottle at bedtime.
DD had a paci until she was about 2 (DH did it cold turkey while I was out of town on a business trip - she did amazingly well) and we were able to drop bottles before she reached DSs age but DS still really likes his bottles at bedtime. I will also give him a bottle on the rare occassions he wakes up in the middle of the night and won't calm down (teething).
I really need to start transitioning him away from this last bottle and then get to work on the pacis.
Exactly this. He sucks his thumb for sleep, so there really isn't any taking that away. He also sleeps with his blankie and we were really good about it only being for sleep. But he's in a toddler bed and sometimes when I'm nursing DS2 on the couch he'll disappear for a few mins and come back with his blankie, but there isn't much I can do about it at that point, so I just let him have it. I figure he just wants some extra comfort and love since I can't give him much extra attention when I'm nursing.
DS still uses a paci
We were hoping to get him to stop around 18 months, but no such luck. He only uses them when he's sleeping. As soon as he wakes up though, we ask him to give it to us and he does. He knows pacis are only for bedtime.
We've tried getting rid of it, but he is very fussy until he gets one.
We ditched the bottles back in march. The pacifier is a different story. We weaned her off of it at night and in the car. So now she only uses it for naps. My plan was for today to be the first day of having the binks just for a minute and putting it away before being put in bed (this is what we did for nighttime) but she was crying and didn't fall asleep so I went in and gave it to her. now she's passed out. I'll try again tomorrow.
Nate is super attached to his pacifier, "ba". He only gets it at daycare for nap, and I asked them to try to cut that out, but they said he wasn't having it.
He gets it at home for bedtime, but it sneaks into other parts of the house too because he has them hidden everywhere. He was sucking his thumb in an ultrasound picture, so it's no surprise that when the pacifier is taken, he reverts to this fingers or thumb anyhow, so taking it is pretty pointless. I figure with a new sibling on the way, I'm not going to fight the battle just yet. I do want it gone except for bed though because I'm already worried about his speech.