Anyone gone cold turkey w/ older toddler & bottle/pacifier?

[kdubs923]

Just watching for helpful tips... DS is a certified paci addict. He has no other loveys. He sleeps with a paci in his mouth and one in his hand (preferably, one in each hand), so he's going to be so sad when we finally take them away. We've held off because he had enough transition with big boy room/bed/baby sister. But yeah, he's not going to part with it on his own.

[geek96]

Mine is definitely a pacifier addict. We haven't taken it away yet. He wants it all day long so we try to distract him but he sleeps so well with it that I am not ready to part with it yet.

[zarapipe]

DD had hers ripped from her the day after she turned 3. It was hard but easier than when we tried it at 2.5. We talked about how pacis were for babies, decorated a jar, put them in and found a random friendly looking mom at walmart with a baby and donated them to the baby lol. She thought I was a stalker at first but warmed up once I told her how DD is a big girl now and wants to donate her pacis to her baby. It was a hard week but was quickly over. I may wait a bit longer if I were you until she understands it a bit more. It was a huge language change from 2.5 to 3yo.

DD2 does not take a paci and I am so glad not to deal with this again.

[dcn]

We limited it to the crib first. Could you try that?

[CheeringCharm]

Yes we had to do it for all three of them. You might go through a rough couples of days early on (it varied for us, we had one who didn't care and two who did) but then you're through the worst and you're totally done with the bottle/paci.

[ryry]

We did recently with dd2's wubbanub. (She's 2.5) She was addicted to them, and while we tried to keep it to bed and the car, they always wound up coming out when she was upset or tired or whatever. A couple weeks ago I noticed she has bit the nipple on one of them, leaving a sizable hole. She had three total, and a second also hit a small hole in it, so I cut the nipples off those two and told her wubba was broken. At first she was really confused and shed hold the animal and then throw it across the room in anger.

The first night was bad. She screamed and fought for two hours before falling asleep. The next couple of nights were totally fine, but then maybe 4 days later she stared waking up at 4 am and not falling back asleep. That lasted a couple days.

It's been 3 weeks now, and she's only asked for wubba twice. Bedtime is fine now and she does still wake up early and come into our bed, but she falls back asleep. It was really much, much better than I thought.

[AmyRI]

DS was 21 months when he bit through a pacifier in a day. It was unfortunate timing as he had a 1mo sister that had a pacifier... but we had no other option at that point. It was a rough couple of days that required re-sleep training but it was only a couple of days thankfully. He was a shitty sleeper before and a shitty sleeper after, but he did continue to nap. But our situation was a little different - we gave up bottles by 13 months and he didn't get a sippy in bed, only at meal/snack times, and we had been trying to limit time with a pacifier as well because he was on the verge of a speech delay. He didn't get a paci at all at daycare and we limited it as much as we could stand with 2u2 on the weekend.

[luckyno7]

Is it safe to poke a hole in it so it doesn't work? Mine kept chewing through hers and so she could no longer use them. We just told her they were all broken and to the trash they went.

[thebreakfastclub]

Once turning 2, it was in the crib only. However, he really escalated in wanting it right after getting home from daycare and in the car. We quit around 2y 4m and then did potty training the next month, so it was a busy summer.

It started with a trip to TRU to look at toys and get some ideas on "big boy" things, and then he spent the weekend at my mom's - and she didn't allow pacifiers past the age of one. Then when he got home, Cranky from Thomas the Train was waiting for him, with a balloon and a note that said his binkies were going to some new babies.

He asked for them for probably 3 nights, but each one got better and then we were done.

[mcfelix]

We quit the pacifier cold turkey when he was 29 months old. We did it at Christmas - we told him that he was going to give his wubbies to Santa who would give them to the babies who needed them. And that he was trading them in for a present from Santa. It worked. We put them all in a bowl on Christmas Eve. It went much better than expected. He has since grabbed one of his sister's pacifiers a handful of times and stuck them in his mouth, but we will instantly ask him to take it out because it's not his.

[sookie]

Feb 25, 2016 11:57:42 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

Just watching for helpful tips... DS is a certified paci addict. He has no other loveys. He sleeps with a paci in his mouth and one in his hand (preferably, one in each hand), so he's going to be so sad when we finally take them away. We've held off because he had enough transition with big boy room/bed/baby sister. But yeah, he's not going to part with it on his own.

I'm in the exact same boat. I'm dreading having to ever take it away.

[Brie]

Could you just plan a couple of super packed exciting days with outings and other stuff she enjoys essentially to keep her occupied and hopefully to forget about it? I know with C he reached a point where it was more out of boredom than anything else, if we kept him happy and occupied he forgot about it.