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melaniedel
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Should DS drop the paci before #2?
melaniedel
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My DS is pretty dependent on his paci. We try not to give to him during the day, but if he gets cranky or throws a tantrum, it really helps. He also needs it for bedtime and it part of hs routine. Part of me doesn't want to rock that boat right now, but then again I don't want them sharing pacifiers. Any suggestions? WDYD?
Also, how did you cut out the pacifier all together? Someone suggested putting vinegar on it?
tia
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Re: Should DS drop the paci before #2?
We got rid of DD1's pacifier when she was 15 months, about 3.5 months before DD2 arrived. I figured it would be harder to get rid of it after DD2 was born because DD1 would see the baby with a nuk and not understand why she couldn't have one, so we decided to be done with it far enough in advance of DD2's birth that DD1 wouldn't be hooked any more. It worked for us, she never tried to go back to the nuk.
We went cold turkey, just took it away. DD1 had a rough time with it at naps for a few weeks, but bedtime was fine after a few days. We just took DD2's away this week and it took only 3-4 days of fussing and she was over it.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
We were dropping bottles slowly and now that we are finally done, I'm not about to take the paci away too when that is what he uses to go to sleep.
Plus, with two months until the baby gets here, I really don't think that's enough time for him to understand he's is gone but the new baby gets one.
DS is still on the soothie paci and I couldn't get him to switch for the life of me, I think I just waited too long. When DS2 gets here, I want to switch ASAP and I'm hoping that will make dropping the paci easier when the time comes for ds1
Thanks ladies. I think I'm going to just limit it to nap and bedtime. Then get rid of both when DS2 is 8-9 months.
Lkm, I agree that DS will not nderstand why LO gets one and he doesn't. I' m sure he'll try taking it and with this bg change coming soon, I'm not sure I want to take away something that soothes him.
I had the same thoughts running through my head when I was pregnant with DD2. DD1 only gets her paci for naps and bedtime so I worried that she would freak when she saw the baby with one but she couldn't have it.
Thankfully we never had that issue. In fact, DD1 loves giving the paci to DD2. We explained that she gets a big paci and the baby gets a small paci and that seemed to do it. Plus she's at the age where she understands when she does and doesn't get her paci.
My sister and I got rid of binkies right around first birthdays, but my niece is only 6 months older than DD2 and so for 6 months DD2 had a binky but niece couldn't. The main thing that helped was they used different binkies (my kids get Nuk and my niece used Soothie) I don't know if that would help as much in two kids in the same house but it's something to think about to say the least.
To get rid of them we first limited to naps and bedtime (including in the car) then got rid of it in the car, then with both kids we took a trip and didn't bring any binkies. The car ride it was a no-go anyway so by the time we arrived at our destination it had been 2 days and they didn't really want it. That being said DD2 found one the other day and popped it in her mouth after 2 months without one so I might still have trouble in 4 months when DD3 has her Nuk Binkies
The best tip I ever got was to use a different kind of paci for #2 - makes the jealousy and binkie sharing non existent!
DD1 used the soothie from the hospital and DD2 used a nuk. So even though we took the bink away from DD1 at about 13/14 months (DD2 was only a couple months old), she was never jealous of her sister's. she had no interest in it because it was different.
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