Pacifier - Chicago,IL

I was having major problems with my son's binky use; well actually it was more along the lines of a binky addiction!! My friend absolutely raved about the cut method, and all of the psychology behind it. She found it on www.bye-bye-binky.com , which is great that it was also free. We went with it and OMGosh... worked so beautifully for my son with NO tantrums, not even one! Thank you God. Five days later he did not want anything to do with his binky. What a relief it was to all of us to finally be done with those darn binkies. Highly recommended! I am also interested in others experiences.... B.

It doesn't matter when you take it away or how you do it, he's likely going to cry. You might get lucky, however, and he will be such a resilient boy and be totally fine with it.

You can do a gradual approach which will likely take much longer and produce more tears or you can just stop it cold turkey, which will be about 1-3 days of crying but a quick transition. Can you offer him a toy or other object as distraction? Try a new board book, an interesting toy, or even a common household object to keep his attention.

If you decide on the cold turkey approach, literally throw out all the pacifiers so you are not tempted to give in.

None of my kids ever took the pacifier either. They were never actually interested and I didn't see any point in forcing it on them. You could try giving him a favorite toy or buying something he would play with only in the car or stroller. Of course, now that he is older he may be more interested in looking around rather than playing and taking it away may not cause too much of an issue. Usually giving my daughter something to play with helps when she prefers to be out running around rahter than in the carseat.

I've heard of cutting the end of the pacifier off so they can't suck on it well, won't like it and will eventually lose interest. Maybe that's worth a try. I know giving a toy in the place of a pacifier wouldn't mean anything to my son so I think having him not like it anymore may be a way to go.

My daughter loved having a pacifier. She needed it day and night. She lost it one day and we couldn't find it and I refused to buy anymore. I just put up with the fussyness which ended up not being that bad. We did end up finding it but put it up in a bag for the memory box.