Pacifiers - Chicago,IL

I have heard that tying it to a door will work. They can still have it, but only if they sit on the floor by the door. That gets pretty boring and they give it up. Good luck!

I have a video of the actual MOMENT that the paci went away. We had gone for a walk & saw a nest of baby birds earlier and when we got back he asked for his paci. I "looked" and "looked" but said uh-oh, that daddy bird must have seen us with our paci and come and borrowed ours when he saw how big you were. Since those baby birds are newborns they need them more than you. There was an all out 1 HOUR screaming fit (which was sad maddening at the same time) but after that it was over.

I didn't want to blame it on another child (give it to baby so & so) because then he would try to steal it back. I had tried to cut the end off of one of them but he just found another one & it seemed better to go cold turkey.

He did find one under the bed and he brought it to me (a few weeks later) and he didn't try to put it in his mouth. He simply said "look, daddy bird forgot this," and handed it to me.

Every child is different - I've heard that cutting the ends off works really well for most kids, but not for mine. It would have been a slow torture.
We also did it the day after Halloween so there was candy as a distraction.

Good luck!
- C.

I don't like going cold turkey so for my daughter we are reducing her time with the paci to bed and nap time for now. I got a pretty box for her pacis that they "sleep in" during the day and they come out for nap and bed time.
My plan is to spend a week or weekend in the summer very active so that she will be tired enough to fall asleep without...she is a bit over two now and I want to be gone with it before her 3rd birthday.

I have to say that I may drag it out a bit longer if I have to. She still has a strong urge to suck and will suck her fingers if I am not careful to remind her not to. Thumbsucking is WAY more detrimental to their teeth, so I prefer that she keeps the paci instead of going from a bad to a worse habit (and one thats REALLY hard to break at that - not like you can limit their time with their thumbs).
Good luck.

Just my 2 cents, what is she going to suck instead? If she really needs it her finger will be what she sucks, or a blanket, or her lips, etc...it can become a horrible issue. Fingers are hard to get rid of since they don't detach.

We learned the very hard way with my odest daughter who is now 30 and her jaw bone is deformed due to sucking on her middle fingers. I thought she should be off the bottle at one and then off any other aids by 15 months. I took them away cold turkey and didn't look back or observe what was going on. With my grandkids I am raising I am taking a MUCH more laid back approach. The 3 yr. old took the bottleuntil he was aobut 2 1/4 and he just put it down one day and started drinking out of a tippy cup all the time, I never once told him it was going anywhere, that it was for babies, nothing. I let him decide when to get rid of it.

I have a friend who had a son who, at 4 still had a pacifier. At that age he was only allowed to use it at home and eventually only at bedtime. He just forgot about it one day and she noticed he hadn't used it an a week or so and put it up and he never mentioned it agian.

yea, there's the fairy option, where they help you MAIL off the binky to the fairy (who uses them for new babies who need them) and in return the fairy leaves a present in the mailbox... or there's the .... SNIP off the tip & let them realize they don't want it anymore after feeling it cut off.

Hi! My daughter was the same way. I never thought we would get it away from her! We told her she had until she was three and then the Nu-nu Fairy was going to come take them away. She didn't like the idea much for a while, but we told her the Fairy would bring her something in return, and what did she want? She really wanted a Strawberry Shortcake Doll baby. So, finally the big day came. I wrapped the doll really special and gave it to her. Then that night she had to leave all her nu-nus for the fairy or the fairy would take back the doll. She was pretty happy to give them to her. She asked me once the next night for one. But I told her they were gone. She really never asked again. Like another poster, she found one a few weeks later and brought it to me and said mom, this is for babies! It may noy go that easy for you, but hey, you never know! We thought bed time would be a nightmare for at least a week! I definatly think cold turkey is the way to go! And stick to your guns! it can't last forever, right?! Good luck!

She probably needs something to sleep with. I have heard of people going to build a bear and letting their child pick out a new lovey, and having them put the paci in with the fluff.

put it in her bed and tell her bedtime only.. we did taht when my daugher was about 2 and it worked.. now she is 4 and still has it at night.. but at least she is not sucking all day..

We used the paci fairy too, when my son was almost 2. I had my doubts, but it worked like a charm! We put them all in a colorful bag and left them on the front doorknob for the paci fairy to take and give to babies who need them. The next morning he couldn't wait to get downstairs and see that the paci fairy left him a big tow truck in return! He was so excited. He maybe asked about the pacis once or twice, but when we reminded him the paci fairy took them he was totally fine with it. I was shocked and very happily surprised that it worked so easily. Good luck!