Pacifier clicky poll

Magenta728 · September 2012

Just curious.

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Magenta728 · September 2012

Right now, we give it only for bedtime and naptime. At about 8-9 months or so, we only used it for sleep and car rides. Now, I'd like stop the pacifier use for sleep altogether. Any tips?

kpaivel · September 2012

DD took the pacifier until she was about 6 months if I remember correctly. She gradually lost interest in it and hasn't needed it since!

I had mine until I was THREE apparently. So I'm thrilled we didn't have to go through the experience of taking it away from her!

JavaVino910 · September 2012

I answered "sleeping and car rides" because that is the closest to the truth, but she also gets it during poopy diaper changes, when she hurts herself and needs soothing, etc. She doesn't have it whenever she wants it, but she does have it several times a day for short periods.

We really need to start getting rid of it, but I'm dreading it. I know that weaning from nursing is in our future, too. I'm not sure which I should get rid of first! ugh...

MommaA117 · September 2012

I am very thankful my daughter never took to it or liked it because I think it's ridiculous when I see people on Facebook posting their three-year-olds with a pacifier in their mouth. Our plan was to take it away around six months anyways though. I probably would have went to almost a year if absolutely needed but that is the limit for us.

DaisyJanie · September 2012

I said never introduced it, but really he refused it. I didn't push it much since I was relieved to never have to wean him from it.

sflash44 · September 2012

We just recently took DS pacifier away and had absolutely no problems with it. Some kids are easy about not having it. Good luck!

CarlaAndJames · September 2012

SS - car rides and random fussy moments when she's teething. We took it away for night time when we sleep trained, though I think DC may give it to her for naps. There will be a week where she won't have it at all, and then a week when she has it a lot. Since it's so inconsistent I really think we could throw them all away without a big battle, so i don't worry about it. They still serve a purpose and help her calm down.

tulipblossom · September 2012

We let her have it when ever she wants. She never really took to anything else like a lovie or any kind of thing to help calm her so for now we just let her have it. I am trying to get her to be more attached to her blanket but for now she just loves the paci too much to deal with taking it away.

IdigDirt · September 2012

I said stopped giving it but LO lost interest when he was a few weeks old.

lauracoro · September 2012

We used to only use it for naps and night time but at 7 months dd decided she didn't want it. We think it's when she started to realize that no milk was coming out of it lol. She would suck on it for like 10 seconds and them get mad and throw it across the room.

Telly21182 · September 2012

I bought new pacis in January (7 months) and Ty hated them, and never seemed to miss it so he essentially lost interest early. Thankfully!

Sunidaze · September 2012

MommaA117:
I am very thankful my daughter never took to it or liked it because I think it's ridiculous when I see people on Facebook posting their three-year-olds with a pacifier in their mouth. Our plan was to take it away around six months anyways though. I probably would have went to almost a year if absolutely needed but that is the limit for us.

This exactly. I think maybe one time she actually took it for a short bit but in general, she never really wanted anything to do with it.

LollyBug18 · September 2012

Emma really only gets it for sleeping but also when she's not feeling well. At her 15mo appt, the pedi said she's perfectly okay w/ Em using it to sleep until she's 2 and then we should start trying to take it away and that's my plan. My parents always said that when I turned 2 and my little brother was born 2 months later, they told me it was time to throw my paci away and be a big girl. Evidently I walked right over to the trash can, threw it away and never looked back. So I'll probably try that logic with Em when she can better understand it. Plus I'm not wanting to make any potentially big changes like that so close to a new baby coming, especially if the newbie ends up taking a paci as well.

Magenta728 · September 2012

LollyBug18:
Emma really only gets it for sleeping but also when she's not feeling well. At her 15mo appt, the pedi said she's perfectly okay w/ Em using it to sleep until she's 2 and then we should start trying to take it away and that's my plan. My parents always said that when I turned 2 and my little brother was born 2 months later, they told me it was time to throw my paci away and be a big girl. Evidently I walked right over to the trash can, threw it away and never looked back. So I'll probably try that logic with Em when she can better understand it. Plus I'm not wanting to make any potentially big changes like that so close to a new baby coming, especially if the newbie ends up taking a paci as well.

This is exactly what I'm trying to decide between. Should I get rid of it now, so that by the time the new baby comes (end of Jan), DD will have forgotten about it? I don't want to make too many changes when the next LO arrives.

kimbo1216 · September 2012

I said sleeping and car rides, but I'd like to go to just sleepy time. I don't think she needs it in the car. I just need to get DH on board. lol

courtneybrooke921 · September 2012

kpaivel:
DD took the pacifier until she was about 6 months if I remember correctly. She gradually lost interest in it and hasn't needed it since!

I had mine until I was THREE apparently. So I'm thrilled we didn't have to go through the experience of taking it away from her!

This was my DD exactly - at 7 months she lost all interest!!! I'm glad although I do miss it sometimes!!

jellybeanjean · September 2012

DaisyJanie:
I said never introduced it, but really he refused it. I didn't push it much since I was relieved to never have to wean him from it.

Pretty much this for both the kids. They may have taken it a handful of times as a newborn, but nothing at all since those first few weeks.

butterfly62682 · September 2012

Wow I have missed a lot this morning. Avery gets hers whenever she wants.

All this time I thought I weaned my oldest DD at 3, but asked her daddy the other day and it was on her second birthday. I am not sure when I plan to take it away now.

LollyBug18 · September 2012

Magenta728:
LollyBug18:
Emma really only gets it for sleeping but also when she's not feeling well. At her 15mo appt, the pedi said she's perfectly okay w/ Em using it to sleep until she's 2 and then we should start trying to take it away and that's my plan. My parents always said that when I turned 2 and my little brother was born 2 months later, they told me it was time to throw my paci away and be a big girl. Evidently I walked right over to the trash can, threw it away and never looked back. So I'll probably try that logic with Em when she can better understand it. Plus I'm not wanting to make any potentially big changes like that so close to a new baby coming, especially if the newbie ends up taking a paci as well.

This is exactly what I'm trying to decide between. Should I get rid of it now, so that by the time the new baby comes (end of Jan), DD will have forgotten about it? I don't want to make too many changes when the next LO arrives.

Yeah, our pedi said to either do it long before the new baby comes or to wait awhile after. It's not causing problems now and I don't feel like it'll be "long" before the new baby comes so I'm not going to change it. Our pedi also said that she'd be concerned now only if Emma was walking around with it in her mouth all the time because it could delay her speech. The pedi said you tend to get a lot of grunting noises in place of better communication. But she doesn't use it outside of sleep and never shuts up when she's awake, lol, so, again, it's not something I'm worried about yet.

march2008 · September 2012

I waited 4 weeks before offering them to DD because she's breastfed and by that point, she would not accept one. I tried several different types. I'm pretty sure I'm her human pacifier!

Diver0214 · September 2012

DD gets it all the time whenever she wants it. My original goal was 1 year or at least for sleep time only. Now I am hoping to get through teething and with the new LO coming in a few months, I will be ok with by 2 yoa.

DreamChaser246 · September 2012

I voted never offered, though we did but he never took it, much. So its pretty much a "never".

LauraOTR · September 2012

He only gets it for sleeping and car rides. We'll try to squash that habit somewhere between 18 mo and 2 years. I also hate it when I see older kids with pacis in their mouth when they're just hanging out and playing. There's this one girl who posts pics all the time on FB, and pics that I assume should be special (family pictures at the beach, happy birthday picture), where the kid has the paci hanging out of his mouth. That's why we don't allow it outside of bed and car. I don't really want to think about having to wean it for those times, though....so I won't, just yet.

lovebugkim · September 2012

We still give it whenever. In fact, it's always clipped to their shirts. :0 I don't think it's stunted their talking whatsoever, because they are always talking. I really need to start breaking them down to bedtime only though. Sigh...

MommaG123 · September 2012

C got rid of hers when we did Ferber at 7 months.

MommaG123 · September 2012

Although this weekend when we went and visited our new nephew she was trying to steal his pacifiers the whole time.

Birdies08 · September 2012

march2008:
I waited 4 weeks before offering them to DD because she's breastfed and by that point, she would not accept one. I tried several different types. I'm pretty sure I'm her human pacifier!

This is us too Smile

amberpro · September 2012

Not sleeping really, but sleepy. I don't plan on forcing the issue until 18 months then I guess we'll go with sleep only. It embarrasses DH a bit, but I don't care as much. I pull it out if he's not tired, but if he sees one he wants it. I think people get too stressed and judgey about pacis. Guess that should be my FFFC. :

kenyakeetah · September 2012

We managed to get him off of it about a month ago, we still have a couple for emergency. Use like tonight he just wouldn't settle and wouldn't take the best to go to sleep so gave a soothed and he calmed down once he calms down he usually gets rid of it. Tonight's though he fell asleep with it. Not worried as in the morning or in the night if he wakes ill put it away again and he won't think about it.

amanda1680 · September 2012

We tried it off and on in the newborn days, out of desperation, but she never took it. She wouldn't even take one when she was in the NICU. She hated bottles too.

pregarella · September 2012

MommaA117:
I am very thankful my daughter never took to it or liked it because I think it's ridiculous when I see people on Facebook posting their three-year-olds with a pacifier in their mouth. Our plan was to take it away around six months anyways though. I probably would have went to almost a year if absolutely needed but that is the limit for us.

This, exactly.

MyEggo=Preggo · September 2012

IdigDirt:
I said stopped giving it but LO lost interest when he was a few weeks old.

Ditto

mrsmullins0500 · September 2012

LauraOTR:
He only gets it for sleeping and car rides. We'll try to squash that habit somewhere between 18 mo and 2 years. I also hate it when I see older kids with pacis in their mouth when they're just hanging out and playing. There's this one girl who posts pics all the time on FB, and pics that I assume should be special family pictures at the beach, happy birthday picture, where the kid has the paci hanging out of his mouth. That's why we don't allow it outside of bed and car. I don't really want to think about having to wean it for those times, though....so I won't, just yet. :

This is us, too.

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