Weaning from Pacifier - Sandy, UT

Hi M.-
My daughter was so attached and didn't give it up until
2 1/2. We were still using it for naps and bedtime, but we went to Build a Bear and had her pick out and animal and put it in it's tummy and then she could just cuddle with it at night. It was hard for the first couple of times she slept. She actually got mad at her kitty and threw it around a bit because the kitty had "eaten" her binky. She got over it and still sleeps with it to this day. Sometimes I think things like this are harder on us then them...they are so resiliant. Good luck!

When we weaned my daughter from them she was a little older so it may have worked a little better. We were going to buy a bunch of helium balloons and tie the pacifier to the balloons. Then what you do is have your son let them go so he feels in control of the situation. I was determined to do it that day and never got a chance to get the balloons. What we wound up doing worked just as good. I got a old box and had my daughter put all the pacifiers in the box. Then we both wrote on the box and we put it outside for the mailman. We had one really bad nap time, by the time it was bed time she just asked about them and I said "don't you remember we mailed the binkies to their mommy." She was fine about it. Hope these ideas work for you.

R.

Cut the end of the pacifier off and let him have the control to say that it is broken.

We had the "Binkie Fairy". Just like the tooth fairy. Find something you son likes... toy cars, maybe it is money, a piece of candy.....

Put a binkie under his pillow and he gets the reward. Our daughter was a little older when we did this, so it might make a difference I don't know!

We were lucky with our son. One day he took his binkie and put it in a drawer -all by himself - and that was the end of it. He never wanted it again.

Good luck!!
C.

Many years ago, my parents apparently chopped pieces off of mine until it wasn't satisfying to such on anymore. The deal was that when each one "fell apart" (with help!) then then it went in the trash until they were all gone. Apparently it worked well. (I ended up with a thumb sucker who magically gave it up on her own when we moved here and the altitude/dryness made it cracked and sore - how lucky!) Good luck!

We talked about it a lot with my son, and then the Binkie Fairy came. We probably talked about it for at least a few weeks, then one day, I just put them in a box outside, and the next morning there was a cool present. Never had a problem again. But I did wait until he was older, more like 3. I would think at 17 months, you might have a few bad nights, then it will get better. You just have to be tough. Good Luck.

Hope this helps,

My son was way attached also, so one day I took a pair of scissors and sniped the verry top of one of the pacifiers, and hid the others, I gave him the snipped one, which he put in his mouth, and spit it out again. I made shure that the pacifier was in his crib, so he know I wasn't taking it away from him. It only took two nights to give it up, which was him crying himself to sleep, but I would do it again in a heart beat, it worked so well. My son was about 16 or 17 months old. He is now over 2 and it hasn't been an issue to see other kids with it.

we cut the nipple all the way off and gave it back to our daughter. She examined it and looked at me like I was crazy. She kept dropping it on the floor. Each time I saw it on the floor, I'd give it to her and say, "here's your binky, I think you dropped it."

A few hours later, I stopped to look at it after I'd handed it to her. "Wait. Is it broken?" she nodded. "Oh, if it's broken, we'd better throw it away." She nodded and ran off to throw it in the trash.

The next day she asked for her binky and I reminded her that her binky was broken and she threw it away.