XP: Overuse of pacifier?

hopefulmom81 · January 2013

Is there such a thing?

I feel like DD whines for and wants her pacifier more than I was anticipating at this age. I would say she has it in her mouth about 60% of waking time. Maybe even more.

She babbles and has many different facial expressions, so I don't necessarily know if it is impeding her development in any way.

Does anyone else's baby use the pacifier a lot during the day? Is there such a thing as too much pacifier time?

chloebeth930 · January 2013

I'm not really sure. DD has to have it at night to fall asleep and sometimes when she is fussy I will give it to her but she mostly sucks on it for a while then pulls it out and plays with it or chews on it.

FWIW I did ask the pedi at her 6 month appointment when I should start weaning DD from her paci and she said that at this age it isn't a problem at all and to not even start worrying about it.

hopefulmom81 · January 2013

chloebeth930:
I'm not really sure. DD has to have it at night to fall asleep and sometimes when she is fussy I will give it to her but she mostly sucks on it for a while then pulls it out and plays with it or chews on it.
FWIW I did ask the pedi at her 6 month appointment when I should start weaning DD from her paci and she said that at this age it isn't a problem at all and to not even start worrying about it.

Thanks, Chloe.

How did I miss that we delivered our babies on the same day??? After being on all of our boards together, you think I would have caught that!!!

chloebeth930 · January 2013

hopefulmom81:
chloebeth930:
I'm not really sure. DD has to have it at night to fall asleep and sometimes when she is fussy I will give it to her but she mostly sucks on it for a while then pulls it out and plays with it or chews on it.
FWIW I did ask the pedi at her 6 month appointment when I should start weaning DD from her paci and she said that at this age it isn't a problem at all and to not even start worrying about it.
Thanks, Chloe.
How did I miss that we delivered our babies on the same day??? After being on all of our boards together, you think I would have caught that!!!

Ahhh haha I didn't even notice. I'm usually bumping on my iphone so I can never see anyone's tickers!

luvmyducks · January 2013

I think it is a personal choice. I let her have it for sleeping until 13m and we took it away cold turkey. I never wanted to use one in the first place bc I think she looks so much cuter without but she was a big comfort sucker. She got it quite a bit up until 8ish weeks bc that was her big grumpy stage. Then we went to sleep and car rides only and then took it away in the car prob around 6m.

xleslieraex · January 2013

Like luvmyducks, M was a huge comfort sucker. I always thought he was cuter without it & started hating pictures of him with it in.

The difference for us was when he started to walk he could only have it for naps & car rides. At about 18m we cut back to crib only (naps & bed time). He started throwing it out in the middle of the night so I knew he didn't need it to STTN which is huge. He just used it to fall asleep. He turned 2 on Dec 3rd & we "lost" it on the 12th. He does fine now without it. Doesn't even ask for it anymore.
Long story short, I don't think babe can have it too much.

vflipo · January 2013

We just took it away from DD at 22 months... cold turkey. She used to have it a TON but she has a huge vocabulary so I wasn't really worried about it. Taking it away went much smoother than I had anticipated. At 7 months you're definitely still ok IMO. Her pedi didn't seem concerned at her 18 month that she still had one pretty regularly.

Karen1998 · January 2013

Is she teething? DS is a huge comfort sucker, but we almost got rid of it at 6m. Then, he started really teething and it came back in spades. We have yet to get rid of it, but I plan to move it on out after the last two first year molars finally come in. They've been pretending to come in for a while. Whenever he teethes, it becomes a mostly permanent accessory during the day. He also wakes up and plops it back in during the night, even when he's not teething. He's right in the normal range for language development. I don't know that there's such as thing as "too much" until they're a bit older.

SharonB222 · January 2013

It is a sleep and teething tool for us. DD won't use it otherwise --- but come a new pair of teeth and the pacifier is stuck in her face. Occasionally she'll accept a chilled ring (infant) or frozen washcloth (toddler) but mostly she just wants her pacifier. I wanted to get rid of the pacifier at 6m, but our pedi is sort of pro-pacifier. So here we are at 17m ... her 4th molar just came in -that was tough- so have cut back again to sleep only. To begin the transition, if DD grabs a pacifier during the day (and isn't teething), I give her a "lovey" as I take the pacifier away and she's been content with that.

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