I can't take it away. ( DUMMY)

I went cold turkey with my son's dummy when he was 2 1/2 years old. He used to have it for sleep time only. At the decided time. He seen me throw his dummy in the bin. I told him it was yukky and that he couldn't have it back. He asked for it for the next 2 days at sleep time but I just said to him that it's in the bin and he soon forgot all about it.

A friend also used this trick on her 3 year old daughter that the dummy fairy was coming to collect all her dummy's tonight, maybe she will leave you a little gift in return. Worked a treat didn't ask once about her dummy's again..

It was a hard decision to go cold turkey but there was no looking back after he seen me throw it in the bin. It was hard listening to him cry but he soon went to sleep. smile smile

Hope this helps. Rik

Hi Huggies Girls.

My boy is 22 months old he goes to day care 2 days a week.
Going well at day care he has no dummy for sleep time.
But home if I try not give it to him the starts crying & I give in to him should I just let him cry?

Tonight by the time I walked out of his room he was crying.
When I do give his dummy I just have to walk out.

What would you do? Thank you for reading Amanda.

I lt the same way as you. I only allowed my little girl to have her dummy when she was in her cot and at no other time. One day she kept throwing it out and I got fed up. I warned her that if she did it again I would throw it in he bin. She did, so I did. I took her with me and she saw it go in the bin. She cried herself to sleep and asked me about it the next day. I showed her the garbage truck as it was emptying our bin and told her that big girls don't need dummies. Within 2 days she stopped asking about it. Good luck.

My 2.5 year old daughter also loved a dummy. The night before her 2nd birthday my husband and I talked to her about her being a big girl (2 tmw) and we all stood around the kitchen bin and allowed her to throw all the dummies in the bin.

When she wanted a dummy over the next couple of days she would cry a bit but then remember that she threw it out (no one to blame but herself!) We never looked back and couldn't believe it! Good luck!

Hi there, I think it depends on how attached his is to his dummy. My daughter used hers right up till three because she was so attached to it at sleep time. At three we told her that the "dummy fairy" was coming to pick them up because babies needed them and she wasn't a baby anymore. She helped pack them up and we put them out on our deck for the "dummy fairy" to collect, and the fairy left behind a special bed time toy for her. The first night she cried a little but we talk to her heaps about it before and gave her a week to get used to the idea before the actual 'visit'. It worked a treat for us and she was really attached to it.

Hi

I have just taken away my daughters dummy, she is 2. we were lucky that my brother has just had a baby and have said that he needs the dummies as he is just a baby and she is now a big grown up girl.

It seems to be working, plus as the rest of the family is in the UK and we speak to them on the computer my brother is going to buy a dummy like she had to show he that they are there for the new baby.

I have a 2.5y/o who was extreamly attached to her dummy.
She would rarely have it out of her mouth (day or night) & would
Hold it if it wasn't in her mouth.

Her speach was never effected, so it didn't bother me. However,
Recently she started talking for the first time with her tongue
At the back of her mouth, so that was it for me.

She woke up the next morning & I'd hid all 13 dummies but 1.
The 1 I'd left her I had cut the end off. Every time she tried it,
She would take it out again & just hold it saying ir was 'broken &
Yucky'. She did this all day & held it all night. The next morning
She told me her dummy was broken & threw it in the bin on her own.

For the next week she would ask throughout the day for her dummy,
If remind her she threw it in the bin & its now gone & she accepted
That.

A month has gone by & she rarely mentions her dummy, Success! smile

Hi Huggies Girls.

My boy is 22 months old he goes to day care 2 days a week.
Going well at day care he has no dummy for sleep time.
But home if I try not give it to him the starts crying & I give in to him should I just let him cry?

Tonight by the time I walked out of his room he was crying.
When I do give his dummy I just have to walk out.

What would you do? Thank you for reading Amanda.

2 experiences, DD1 decided at 2 that she was a big girl and gave it up for herself. Because my DD2 never agreed to this and was very protective of her dummy I was probly a little lax and let her keep it uptil she was almost 3 (only at night and when she was sick).

A little before she was 3 I drew the line, it is definately a little old so we used the dummy fairy. We bought her a Lightening mcQeen toy as she is massive a tomboy and swapped it for the dummy,

She didn't skip a beat, If I had known it would be that easy I wouldn't have put it off so long.

For me it is not about teeth as there really is no proof that either dummies or thumbs cause permenant damage, it seems to vary based on opinion and not fact from the literature I have read.

For me it's more about you children reaching a new emotionally secure level of being that does not require the sucking reflex of an infant. it's about teaching them to be a child and not a baby.

SHe is still little so you have a lttle time, god knows I left mine to late because it is just so easier to shove a dummy in thier mouth and I will probly leave it too long with my DS1 too but don't be affraid......

They cope better than we do grin

My sister inlaw was advised by a dentist to cut the tip of the dummy off and give it back 2 her 18 month old daughter. she ended up handing it 2 her mum to throw in the bin as she didnt enjoy it anymore.

My son is exactly the same! No dummy and no bottle at daycare but throws the biggest tantrums until he gets either one when he is at home! I am firm with him and don't give it to him but my partner is the one that keeps giving it to him just to stop him from screaming the entire street down.

It's tough when we're not on the same page sad

I took my dd's dummy & bottle away from her at 11months all on the same day. It was hard at first but in the end it was fine. My ds lost interest in his dummy when he was quite young. He cried alot even though he didn't want a dummy. It was hard but you just have to persist.

I am a firm believer that dummys & bottles are for babies not older kids (and by that I mean alot older). Sorry if I have offended anyone. Its just sometimes I am out and I see kids like around 3 & 4yrs with dummy's and baby bottles and it just looks wrong to me.

Sorry again if I have offended anyone. xx