I can't take it away. ( DUMMY)

hi i know it sounds harsh but my nephew was starting school this year and still had a dummy we tryed every thing untill we got desperate i got all of his dummys and poped them with a pin so they wernt rounded any more but he still sucked them so we told him that when your to big for a dummy they start to taste yucki we put stop nail biting solution on all his dummys he sucked every one and said put them in the bin ive just grown to big after a glass of water and some supper he went off to bed never asked for one again its hard but when all else fails ??

my daughter has just turned one and i ve had lots of people say they sleep better without one and they are germ carriers but i think it helped us out heaps, we had loads of trouble with breast feeding, i have inverted nipples, so we started using a breast sheild which was a hassle, but continued then she started teething at two months the dummy was i great teething ring and helped with the sucking mechinism. she is now twelve months with 13 teeth,we are slowly taking the tummy away,hard because it is a comforter for them like us mums our mobiles so we know we know we are contactable. we just distract her when she starts to want it, but she does have it to sleep.

my son is 2yrs and 4 months old...he still has his dummy at home and at daycare for sleep times....and when he is ill..... i hate the fact that other people judge me because he has a dummy... i believe that if it comforts him then he needs it... i would rather my son be happy and feel safe than cause anxiety issues in him because of other small minded peoples POV's..... when he is ready to give it up will be the day it goes in the bin and not before then....he has recently given up night time bottle and he choose to do it by himself..... so he hasnt had a night time bottle for 2 weeks.... his choice and he hasnt asked for one since....so i believe the same will happen with his dumdum.... hope that helps...

if it help i just recently took the dummy off my 2 year old i waited till she went to daycare and hid them all told her that nanny borrowing them. she was happy with that and after about a month she forgot all about them . its just seeing it though and be strong.the only she reverted back to her baby bottle. o would rather she have a dummy then suck her thumb. i was told untill two and a half you dont have to worry

My son had his dummy until he was 27 months. Everyone was always harrassing me about getting rid of it, but i hated seeing him cry over it all the time. I told him all the time that big boys dont have dummies and that helped him stop wanting it during the day. One day he walked over to the bin and threw both his dummies in there. I asked him if he was sure, because he couldnt have them back and he was fine. I was worried about how he would be during the night, but he asked for it once and i told him that he threw them in the bin and he went straight to sleep without it. He hasn't asked for it again and he also toilet trained himself the same day. I think that talking to them about it and waiting for them to want to lose the dummy makes it alot easier and less stressful for everybody!

Hey I have twins that have just turned 2 the boy hates the dummy and the girl loves it!!!!
She only has it for sleep times and I agree what ever helps them from not being upset and help us how bad can it be.?

I asked there ped. doctor and he said "you dont see many 21yrs olds with a dummy do you"? he then said she will give it up when she is ready there is no real harm in them

good luck

My son had a dummy up til he was 2 1/2 and i only gave it to him when he asked. He eventually stopped asking. Goodluck

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.

hi my name is grace my boy is 3 and my girl is 2 and no matter what i did to take there dummies away they cryed so i gave it back then i said cant do this any more so i got the kids to make good bye dummie invites to send toeveryone had a party then at the party put there dummies into the ground with a tree on top no crying not a thing its hard to think how easy it was good luck

When it came time for my brother to lose his dummy, mum gave it a funeral. Explained that the dummy needed to go to heaven and have a long sleep. I was little and don't remember but apparently we said goodbye to the dummy and that was it, he got over it. If he had a whinge mum reminded him the dummy had gone to heaven. He was 18 months old then.

my son now 3, had his dummy for night time, during the day we'd put it in a dish on the fridge together and at night we'd get it down together. I didnt even attempt to take it away til hed stopped teething. Once he had at 2 1/2 I sneakily cut the teat off the dummy during the day, when we went to get it that night... uh-oh dum-dum was broken!! so my son took the handle to bed that night and then in the morning he threw it in the bin himself. for the next couple of nights he asked for it before bed but i just said "remember we had to throw it in the bin because its broken" and he accepted that and went to sleep well.
I think him seeing that it was no longer an option made it more real for him than the dummy fairy method and it was well accepted.

Hi Ladies,

I am reading your thread because I just tried to take the dummy's off my 18mth old. After nearly two hours I couldn't do it and have given them back to him and he has dropped off really quickley. I think maybe he just doesn't understqand yet. He only has them for sleeps so maybe I will just leave it for a bit longer. He was sooooo upset and even controlled crying didn't work.

Thanks for reading I just neede to get that out.

Hi Ladies,

I am reading your thread because I just tried to take the dummy's off my 18mth old. After nearly two hours I couldn't do it and have given them back to him and he has dropped off really quickley. I think maybe he just doesn't understqand yet. He only has them for sleeps so maybe I will just leave it for a bit longer. He was sooooo upset and even controlled crying didn't work.

Thanks for reading I just neede to get that out.