Pacifier Help - Bradenton,FL

I went cold turkey with my daughter on her 2nd birthday. I had explained in the weeks leading up to her birthday that turning 2 was a big deal and that the binky fairy comes to take the binkies and give them to babies who need them and that was the fairy's way of telling her she was becoming a big girl. We celebrated by making sundaes together after she couldn't find them the day of and I made a big deal that the fairy "did!" think she was a big girl! It worked. She would go to fuss about it and I'd ask her if I needed to get ahold of the binky fairy and give back her big girl rights and she'd always straighten up and say no. Good luck!

K.

COLD TURKEY IT!
I think that is going to be the best way to do it. She is going to get mad just be 100% prepared to NOT give in. I took my boys off theirs when they were 18mths and they only cried for the first couple nights then they were over it. Hopefully it won't be too bad. GOOD LUCK!

Hi J..
My daughter is almost 19m old, and still has her binky. She loves it, and it actually gives me some peace and quiet sometimes when she's fussing. At this point, I don't think she would understand me taking it away, and I don't want to make her give it up yet. I have a sister that's due to have a baby at the end of nov and one due mid Dec. My plan is by then she will be almost 2, and I plan for her to give them to the babies. HOpe it works. But that's my plan. Good luck to you.

I wouldn't go cold turkey....to me I just don'k like it. Try tapering it down to just naps and bedtime. Then just bed time, and just gone. Tapering is good in any situation I feel. Go slow and she'll do fine.

My boys were 2 & 3 when I finally took their "binky" away. I hate that I waited so long too! I told them that the "binky fairy" (or whatever word you call it) was coming to take the pacifiers away from all the BIG Boys & Girls to give them to little babies that don't have any. So that night we put them all in a bag and let them help us put it on the tree. In the morning they were gone. A small toy was left in its place for them to be "BIG" with. Never had a peep about it again. I tried only letting them have it at night, but it just didn't work! Good luck.