Removing the Dummy

My 13 month old has a dummy majority of the time. She relys on it to go to sleep. She doesnt really need it during the day but if she finds one she will put it in.
Does anyone have any tips on how to wean her off it for her sleeps without upsetting her to much.
Thank you in advance

we were the same, needed it at night for sleep and would take it in the day if she found one shed stashed somewhere but wasn't reliant on it in the daytime, at 15months we went cold turkey (only 15months cause it was summer and I wasn't brave enough to be up and down out of bed in winter!) had 2, 3 max rough nights and she just adjusted fine, had quiet music on in her room and it really was a non issue smile good luck to you!

Sorry we didn't use a dummy, but a mum in coffee grp did and she was told it takes 3 days 2 change a routine, so she went cold turkey and it worked. I hope you find a way to do it that you are comfortable with.

Hi there,

My DD was having it for sleeps and had stopped having it during the day. We waited until we knew we would have a couple of normal days ie we had just moved waited a few weeks after that and had no big appts on, she wasnt sick etc.

I spoke to her about giving her dummys to the other babies cause they would be needing them soon, I mentioned this for a while before we did it just to plant the idea then on the day choosen I asked if she wanted to collect all the dummys from around the house put them in a nice little gift bag and put them in the letter box for the dummy fairy to come and take to the new babies as they now needed them.

She did this and we walked to the lettr box, my sister ran up to the box after we came back in and got them and hid them in the boot of my car for me to secretly dispose of later and put a new princess wand in the letter box. I then said to her lets go see if the dummy fair has been yet and off we went she checked the ltter box and was so excited she got a wand in the mailbox that the dummy fairy had left to say thankyou for all her dummies. We made a big deal out of how she was a big girl letting the babies have her dummys etc and how cool her wand was. We did this early in the day so that she had her afternoon sleep without them and got use to it rather than right before bed.

It was a bit of a challenge getting her to bed she did ask for it but I just kept saying you dont have dummies any more the fairy as taken them to the new babies mummy cant give you one because we dont have any and told her that was so nice of her to give them to the babies and now you have an awesome wand and she was allowed to put her wand on her dutches the first night then it ended up with all her other toys.

So She really went cold turkey but I tried to make it as nice a transition as possible..

Hope it helps, good luck.

I like the idea of the PP. I have a nearly 6 month old who needs her dummy for sleep. Am limiting it to sleep but do worry how we are going to get rid of this thing! I might just have to have the "fairy dummy" come to our place!

You could try giving it to Santa and getting a present in return??

Sorry, but at 13 months she is still not going to understand the dummy fairy or giving it to santa.
You are going to have to go cold turkey. My dd was 2 1/2 when I had to take hers. There was no reasoning with her. One bad night (took 2-3 hrs for her to settle. But then slept through), & a few bad day sleeps. Since, we have struggled to get her to have naps.

we waited till my daughter was two, because we could comunicate with her a lot better,like someone mention, we could tell her that it went to santa. not sure how to deal with a younger child, as they still need their comforts.

My 13 month old has a dummy majority of the time. She relys on it to go to sleep. She doesnt really need it during the day but if she finds one she will put it in.
Does anyone have any tips on how to wean her off it for her sleeps without upsetting her to much.
Thank you in advance

I think just make it a sleep thing for awhile!
and make sure none are lying around the house and in a few months just put her to sleep without it! give it a lil longer with sleep ..... but whilst awake she shoodnt have it .... I see friends with kids who have the dummy and they dont talk!! ... speech delay!!! cos the dummy is always in!

Being 13 months i would go cold turkey or just carrying on using the dummy just for sleeping making sure there were none around for her to use during the day. And then when shes older, do the santa/fairy thing.

I have heard you can try cutting a tiny small piece off the dummy. It makes it less appealing to suck but still has some benefit. Then you can cut more and more until there isn't anything left.

I have a 13 month old as well who only uses the dummy for sleep. I would love to just take it away but the poor thing has been so sick with bronchitis. I don't think she's old enough to understand about giving it to the dummy fairy. I've decided to wait till she's older to get rid of them.
I didn't have this problem with DD1, she was a thumb sucker and stopped at 4.