Picking up Pacifier at Age 2! What Would You Do?

My sister in law let this go on with her daughter right around the same age. Can we all spell h$ll and disaster together? Getting her three year old off the pacifer was very much not worth the short term gain. Tempting but no. Good luck.

Oh dear. Well I get your temptation, I mean you'd be crazy not to at least think about it...but no, I don't think I'd go there at this age. It won't be long before you'll really need to get her to give it up, so I'd say trash them all now before you lose your will! ;)

A three-hour nap at age two may be great for you but not necessarily for her. By two, many kids are dropping naps altogether. Please don't use the pacifier as a way to get her to nap more; that would be interrupting her own body's natural change in its sleep patterns. Please put her normal development -- even if that means shorter naps -- ahead of the lovely convenience of longer naps brought about by using the paci.

If she gets into using a pacifier this late -- after many kids who use pacis are stopping using them -- she is going to be MUCH harder to break of the habit. And you already know it's bad for her developing teeth. I'd ensure they are all gone from your house. She can't find and use what is just not there. She will whine and cry after your experiment, possibly, but don't cave or you will be struggliing much harder, later on, to wean a much older kid from a pacifier.

Yes, it's crazy to give her one at 2!!

Change her schedule otherwise if you want her to nap that long. My kids still sleep that long sometimes and they are 5, 7, and 9. They are kept busy during the day and don't sleep in late in the mornings. They don't need a pacifier and neither does your kiddo.

Not going to lie though, some days I'd be tempted to use one if it would let me sleep longer!! :)

But no, do not give her one. You will regret it in the long run.

lol...yeah...i agree with the ladies...tempting...but a bad idea. you know that.

bummer! :)

You will safe yourself sleepless days, tantrums, meltdowns, emotional attachment, and defiance...if you do NOT give her that pacifier.

You would be crazy to let her have it now. AND, you would regret it.

I see how a couple of days of three hour naps might be nice, but seriously, the goal is to get them off the naps so you can have a life. Also, if she is sleeping three hours in the afternoon, it will mean less sleep at night. I can't stand to see a child over the age of one with a pacifier, and think of the damage it will do to her teeth and her speech development. Get rid of them now!

Seriously, at 2 years they nap less, it's a reality.

No judgments from me, but I will say i would never do it. My first never used one, my second child until she was 5.5 months, my little guy until he was 13 months, and he did it cold turkey. There's really no reason for a 2 year old to use a pacifier, give her more age-appropriate ways to induce napping longer. Wake her earlier in the morning, have her get lots of exercise before lunch, running, jumping and climbing, limit TV, darken her room with a shade or blind, and give her foods that will help her sleep such as chamomile tea sweetened with honey a half hour before her nap, turkey, milk (warmed helps), shellfish, beans, eggs, cottage cheese, apples with peanut butter, whole wheat crackers and cheese, a bagel with cream cheese, cereal with milk, and/or bananas for lunch. These work for bedtime as well, I sometimes give my guy something from this list to relax him and help him go and stay asleep.

Other than what it can do to her developing teeth I found out recently that what concerns doctors the most is the problem it causes in speech development, apparently causing toddlers and beyond to hold their mouths and tongues a certain way from using a pacifier, which interferes with their developing speech.

Add that to the fact that if she starts sleeping 2 hours more at naps she will sleep 2 hours less at night (her body only requires a certain number of total hours of sleep a day and won't add the extra 2 hours to the total) and you have a whole new problem, her possibly waking in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep or refusing to go to sleep at her regular bedtime.

Seriously not worth it, throw the pacifiers away, Jane.

Hi I.~ My daughter was attached to my breast for 3 years....everyone, including my husband called me out saying that it was my issue and that I did not want to give her up. I argued saying no, I'm a human pacifier, she feels pacified and calm while sucking. I won. How do I know this??hmmm. same scenario as you. My niece was born and there it was, a pacifier. We too had a tucked away stash of them since she wanted absolutely nothing to do with them when she was an infant. Once she found the "paci" she released me from nursing! Woo-hoo, I was a free woman but we had to contend with the paci. She is now 4 1/2. We "lost" the paci(s) about 9 months ago and guess what??? She now sucks her thumb. Sometimes as a mom it is simply understanding that they find peace and comfort in it...They may need braces, other kids may have something to say about it (along with other parents and adults) but I know one thing is for sure...she loves to feel calm and peaceful and it is that suckle that does it.

:)

I chose to give my baby a pacifier to prevent thumb or finger sucking...........
You can take the pacifier away when the time comes, you can't take a finger away. Usually, they stop the pacifier by the age of 3, where kids suck on there finger for years and years. My sister for example, sucked on her fingers until she was about 8 years old............
I don't think giving it to her now is a big deal....hell a 3 hour nap is better then an hour nap!
Don't worry about it. Maybe make some rules with it. Like, it stays in the bed and doesn't come out.

No, I wouldn't do it. It's bad for her teeth and can create other problems.

I'd cut a hole in the tip if I were you.

Dawn