Pacifier Please Help!!!

This idea seems to work like a charm...my two kids, their preschool and others I've recommended it to. Cut the nipple part of the pacifier off. Just cut it in the middle and leave the paci in the crib, or wherever she knows where it is. When she picks it up, with her, say, "oh no! paci (or whatever you name it, (if you have one) is broken!" Oh no! And do that for any other pacifiers you have in the house or your diaper bag. She will get the idea that it just doesn't work anymore! Might take one or two naps or nights to really sink in for her, but the fact is, it just doesn't work for her like it did. Then that's it! Good luck

My daughter had a terrible time getting rid of her "Buddy"...she had 5 or 6 and loved to play with them just like toys, then suck on them for naps & bedtime. I tried the cutting thing, but that didn't work for my daughter because she liked to play with them, too.

One day after some of them had been 'lost' somewhere in the house, she was down to one Buddy...and a man named Mike came to our house to tow my car to the repair shop after it had been hit on the street. Mike was talking to my daughter while I was signing some paperwork and he asked her about her Buddy. He said he didn't have one and 'can I have it?' and shockingly enough, she said yes and gave it to him. He left with the car (he secretly gave me back the Buddy) and the Buddy and when it came time for bed that night, she asked for it and I told her that she gave it to Mike and that he was gone now with the Buddy...she cried a little bit, watched a video and fell asleep while I was holding and rocking her, and that was it. She knows that Buddy lives with Mike, but we just don't know where that is! She would sleep with a stuffed 101 Dalmations dog and several Beanie Babies...we just filled up her bed with sleeping and playing friends just like Buddy had been, only now Buddy was helping someone else sleep because she didn't need him and he's happy with Mike! It's all in the presentation! We all laugh at that story now! BTW, she's 15 now and STILL sleeps with Lucky the dalmation! My son was much the same way...we 'lost' his one day and we all made a big deal about looking for it, and my son went to bed with his little blanket instead of Buddy and he was fine with it. He never asked for it again and slept with the little blanket ever since! Sometimes it's just a matter of transferring to something else. My son still has the little blanket on his bed...he's 10...but he doesn't have to have it to sleep, and he doesn't take it anywhere...it's just there and looks cute.

Good Luck!

S.

Hi Kiki,

My mom did the whole cutting the paci for my brothers that did not work for my daughter! She would still suck on it and keep it. So this is what I did and it worked! And I have had friends do it and same thing!

When my daughter was 18 mo old I was like this is it. It hurts their teeth, speech and from running a daycare it was a pain to have a kid with a paci.

So I gathered all my daughters pacis and kept her favorite out. Put the rest in a walmart bag and went to the mall. We then went to Build a Bear. I threw the bag of pacis in the garbage. So I wouldn't be tempted to get them out at my home's garbage. I had my daughter pick a stuffed animal. She wanted Elmo. So when it came time to stuffing Elmo with the cotton I had her put her paci in Elmo with the heart. She thought this was so much fun. Then they stuffed and sewed Elmo up.

I flipped him over and say "Oh no Elmo ate your Paci" So she kept saying that. She didnt ask about it for a while that day until nap and I let her feel her paci in Elmo's belly then after about 2 days of wimper and a little crys (keep referencing to the "ate paci" she stopped and all was good.

No more paci! The 30 bucks was better than deformed teeth and delayed speech and screams for paci when you didnt have one!

HTH

E.

She is going to scream until she figures out that you are not going to give it to her. I know it's hard on your and her, but it's for her own good. Hang in there.