CPW: What is your pacifier use situation?

giraffeluvspi · March 2014

[Deleted User] · March 2014

Used to, but not anymore. He just decided he didn't want it anymore and we never looked back.

However, in desperation I did stick it in his mouth 2 months ago hoping he would take it and start sleeping better, but he spit it out and looked at me like I was a lunatic.

[Deleted User] · March 2014

NKaeding said:

We use one for naps/night time. She has like 6 in her crib for easy location during the night.

This made me LOL. That's a good idea.

UTQT09 · March 2014

She originally hated them, then she started daycare and now she loves them. I am already dreading taking them away!

gutsymama · March 2014

This kid had a binkie in his mouth as soon as he was extubated. And after his second and third surgeries, we used some heavy-duty medical scissors to cut the edge off a bink so it would fit in his mouth alongside the ventilator. Bink for lyfe, yo.

rondokye · March 2014

E's refused a pacifier since day one. We tried to give her one in the hospital and I swear that she gave me the evil eye for trying it. She's always been a finger sucker.

DenverBride2005 · March 2014

LO always has one, 24/7. anything to help my kids sleep, I am allll for it. DS1 kept his until sometime last fall (27 mos or so)--wasn't too hard to wean him off it though, we just kinda said one day "big boys don't use pacis" and never looked back.

gutsymama · March 2014

S/o taking away pacifiers:

Last summer one of our friends was trying to get her 2yo to give up her pacis but was struggling. So she told her that baby Lucas needed her pacis because he was sick and they would make him feel better - and the 2yo packed all her binks in a teensy gift bag and brought them to our house! It was maybe the most adorable thing ever.

We held on to them for a few days in case of binkmergency, but she didn't need them after that.

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WanderingA · March 2014

I am really trying to get LO to cutback on her paci reliance but am failing miserably. It is definitely the magic cure-all for whenever she is upset. We give her one at night and she will wake up and find it and stick it in her mouth while her eyes are still closed!

MRads · March 2014

He takes them. And then pulls them out of his mouth right before falling to sleep. He sucks his thumb more.

SMac85 · March 2014

We use it just for sleep and in the car. We did the same with DS1 and took it away around 11 months without any trouble. Hoping it will be just as easy with DS2

[Deleted User] · March 2014

@MRads that's what my LO used to do. He never actually slept with the paci, just needed it to get to the falling asleep point and then he had no use for it any more.

babykk · March 2014

We only use one in situations like over tiredness. He sucks on it until he falls asleep then spits it out. He has always used the paci like that.

reallylongusername · March 2014

She was given one in the hospital when she was born, then we didn't use one for a while when we got home, but we've been using one since she was two weeks old or so. We only use it during bedtime and sometimes naps tho'.

Carrie3102 · March 2014

Parker uses one, but nothing like Josephine. He uses it when he fusses at night and it's not time for a feed, other than that, not at all. Josephine had hers 24/7. It never mattered how many were in her crib, she'd lose them and I'd end up in there to give it back to her.

danigirl7181 · March 2014

maryannespier said:
"This is not a boob, mom. Please take it away."

Same here, oh how I wish he would take one. But it only pisses him off more if we try to give it to him.

bobcee · March 2014

He would never take one. Just spit it out. A few months ago he started sucking his thumb to self soothe, but only did that for about 2 weeks and decided he was done with that too.

At times I feel like it would've been nice to help calm him and so he wouldn't use me as his pacifier, but I am grateful that we won't have to break him of the habit now. DD also would never take one.

coco2787 · March 2014

maryannespier said:
"This is not a boob, mom. Please take it away."

Yeah. He uses a pacifier for all naps and all night long, except in our house it's called a boob.

sparkymcgeee · March 2014

Both my kids gave them up at about 5 months. Really irritating when they still need something and that something is now your boob. But I am glad I don't have that fight on my hands now. Weaning is hard y'all.
Mimi, stop my heart from sweetness.

EagleWife · March 2014

She took one for the first couple weeks, then refused them between 2 and 4 months. We only give them to her for nap and bed times, and she very often spits them out after he gets into a deep sleep. I keep one for car rides in case she is tired while riding.

ashie624 · March 2014

I said never did and still doesnt. Although she has a handful of times..it was never consistent. I dont count it haha

sdtchica13 · March 2014

You need a SS option, lol.

Gavin uses one fairly regularly, but is not one to freak if he doesnt have one. I am hoping this will bode well for me when I cold turkey him at around a year.

KikiCohen · March 2014

P has never used one, but he's always been bottle fed. I might have been more insistent on him trying one if I breastfed.

giraffeluvspi · March 2014

@sdtchica13 sorry! I thought those options might have covered it all, but I guess all CPWs need a SS option. Always. haha

@mimi4347 That is soooooooooooo cute! Adorableness overload here.

@NKaeding How do you keep them in the crib? It is like the land of long lost binks behind Sully's crib. Every couple of days I have to get back there and clean them out.

Sully has always used them. Recently he has started popping his thumb through the center of the nuk when he sucks. We call it his "thumb condom".

He won't just suck on his thumb, though. I guess the kid is already learning safe sucking practices.

atlvol · March 2014

He uses one for naps. I nurse him to sleep at bedtime so he is out, but as soon as that first sleep cycle is up, he needs his paci to fall back asleep.

gutsymama · March 2014

ChrissieMeas said:

@NKaeding How do you keep them in the crib? It is like the land of long lost binks behind Sully's crib. Every couple of days I have to get back there and clean them.

Luke plays Plinko with his binks and his crib rails while falling asleep. We have an arsenal of 15 at the ready but he has incredible aim so some nights we go through almost all of them before he goes to sleep.

I've threatened to start labeling the slots. What should DH and I play for, J13? MOTN diaper duty? Household chores? Sexual favors? (is that totally inappropriate to combine with bedtime?)

emandia · March 2014

He's the first baby I've had that will take one. Only when he's sleepy, sleeping or sick.

giraffeluvspi · March 2014

@adeb9562 How you doin' Mama? I think about you from time to time.

Is that creepy?

KateJuly2013 · March 2014

Never ever

queenbone · March 2014

I answered never. None of my kids have been into the pacifier, they use me instead. It is a rare occurrence for DD to take one.

merc5411 · March 2014

A didn't want one at first, then he had to have it to nap. Now he just shoves the entire thing in his mouth sideways. It looks like a little mouth guard.

fabk · March 2014

A has some in his crib and random ones elsewhere. I keep an emergency one in my purse.
His ideal relaxation activity is sucking his paci while lying on his belly in his crib watching his aquarium.
He loves to suck his thumb and I am hoping the paci will be an easier habit to break.

R314159 · March 2014

Used to take pacifier. Now sucks thumb. I have tried getting him to use a pacifier instead but he wants his thumb!

blairwitch · March 2014

I try it every night with little to no success. DD1 never took them either.

EagleWife · March 2014

Our mesh bumper keeps the paci from falling out of the crib.

I've tried putting an extra paci in there with her, but she got worked up because she had one in her mouth and got upset because she couldn't get the one in her hand into her mouth also. #-o

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