Pacifier

colinsfebmommy · January 2015

Anyone's little ones still take one? Mine takes one only at bedtime and nap time. At 2 were giving them to the pacifier fairy lol what age are you stopping ?

MrsCarroll.6-10-07 · January 2015

My 2nd daughter we stopped when she was almost 3 1/2. We had reasons eavhbtime foe not stopping....new baby in the house, house for sale, living at my parents, moving to new house, etc. We finally got her to turn them all in for a teddy bear at build a bear. She cried for about a day.

kelly321 · January 2015

DD2 gave hers up on her own when she was about 8 months old.

DD1, however, will be 4 in April and is still using hers for naps and bedtime. Shrug. We've decided once we're all adjusted to the time and things have settled down here, we'll be giving them to the pacifier fairy. But I think trading them for a toy like Mrs.Carroll mentioned is a better idea. She has a few things she really wants right now. I bet I could get her to give up the pacis for a Princess Sophia doll.

holly321 · January 2015

Dd never really liked them, so I stopped giving them when she was about 4 months old.

Ds still uses his for nap and bedtime. Sometimes in the car. He occasionally has one during the day, because he hides them strategically around my house, but we do distract him and take them from him.

My intent was to take them at 2, but recently he woke up and couldn't find it and freaked out. It made me realize I wont sleep, so I decided I will reevaluate later

djm31012 · January 2015

DS takes one. The plan is to take it away sometime in the back half of 2015-not sure exactly when. Lots of changes coming up for him-moving to a big boy room, new baby brother coming this spring, mommy stopping work, so I dont want to pull it yet. He only uses it for sleeping and occassionally long trips in the car (when we hope it will make him sleep). If I see him with one walking around the house I take it out and say we dont need the paci-thats only for the crib!

Puck1182 · January 2015

DD uses hers for naps and bedtime. It's also the lesser of two evils when she starts gnawing on her hand when she's teething. Poor kid''a hands kept getting red and chapped when she was teething last winter. Ideally I would like two get rid of it sooner rather than later for sleep, but getting rid of it for teething may depend on when two-year molars show up, since I'd rather her coping mechanism for that be something we can take away as opposed to chewing on her own flesh. ;-)

TarheelMama202 · January 2015

We still use the paci for bedtime and naptime. I will not mess with it now. He's starting to cut his two year molars and I think it helps him feel better to gnaw on it at night. Bless him.

SLGILL1978 · January 2015

We still use them for naps and bedtime as well. We are planning on weaning after her 2nd birthday.

tamarar5 · January 2015

E still has his. I keep trying to get him to leave it on his crib, but then he takes it out of A's mouth and makes her scream. Nice, right? Not sure how to handle that....

kleigh926 · January 2015

DD is still very attached to it for sleep. She also sometimes gets it in the car on our way home from somewhere. I don't like giving it to her in the car but she will throw a fit sometimes if she doesn't get it and it drives DH crazy, so.... yeah. Anyway, we don't really have a plan, but I don't think we're taking it away for sleep anytime soon.

ally2011 · January 2015

YES. Sleep, naps and car most of the time (working on this first). I don't want it to be traumatic, hoping I can phase it out over the next several months. I don't want to have to judge myself if she still has it at 3

TarheelMama202 · January 2015

I actually brought this up to our pediatrician in November. She was not at all phased that he still had it and said not to worry about it.

Sorry, I should have posted that in my earlier response.

topolina1215 · January 2015

Just wanted to say - this post made me feel so much better! I've been feeling bad about not taking away DD's paci yet (she only uses it for sleeping/napping/car seat), but like others - she's just been going through so many transitions (new room/bed, new baby due, new daycare room, etc.) and she's been sleeping so well lately - we don't want to mess with that! (We got to sleep in til 8:45 am this morning!!!

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brachysira · January 2015

tamarar5 said:

E still has his. I keep trying to get him to leave it on his crib, but then he takes it out of A's mouth and makes her scream. Nice, right? Not sure how to handle that....

M has never really been into them--used them a bit when she was very small. This does not prevent her from taking AJ's right out of his hands or mouth and putting them in hers.

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