getting rid of the paci?

[marie3246]

When did you rid of yours? A doesn't seem to miss it much during the day and when she is super tired she falls asleep without it. I would prefer to get rid of it earlier than later but I'm not sure how to go about it. Cold turkey? She has the wubnub with the animal attached, should I just cut it off of that?

[dcn]

Ds was 20 months I think. He only had it in the car and in his crib, we went cold turkey and he did fine.

[Deleted]

A little after a year, we only used it in the car and crib and he did fine with that. We got rid of it cold turkey the rest of the time a little before 2. But he was not a hardcore pacifier kid, so it was not an issue.

[ssmjlm]

At 17m, but it was only ever a car or nap thing (didn't use it for night sleep).

It happened on accident, but our goal was 18m. We just forgot to give it to her for napone day and it did take her a bit longer to fall asleep, it wasn't a big deal.

I do think we had an easier time getting rid of it b/c she didn't use it constantly or for night sleep.

[carolinagirl831]

at 10 months, I seriously would not worry about it!

[soozy87]

He was about 14.5 months. Also had the Wubbanub. He bit through the pacifier so I cut the part he sucks on off but left part of the rubber. I was very afraid to put him to sleep that night. It actually went much much better than I expected and he is doing really well. No more tossing "the bear" back in the crib because we know he can sleep well without it.

[jeaniebueller]

If she only uses it for sleeping, I would cut it cold turkey sooner than later. We just did the same thing. It was about a week of crying before bed and now she doesn't care. Its awesome not having to worry about pacifiers anymore.

[countthestars]

No plans to get rid of it at 19 months. Hoping to drop to crib and car only soon. She doesn't use it at daycare so I know she doesn't need it.

[purplecow0206]

We dropped it at about 10 months because she'd been waking up and playing with them (we usually had 3-4 in the crib in case she threw one out of the crib) instead of going back to sleep in the 4:00-5:00 AM time range. It was a non-issue to take it away, I just started it one nap on a weekend randomly and that was that.

[BlueNotebook]

Both of my kids had them until around 2.5. Sometime around 12-18 months we went down to only at nap/bed time. When DD was 2.5 she was chewing paci's and putting holes in them. We explained that when she chewed through the last one, there were no more. When DS moved out of his crib, he decided that there were no paci's in a big boy bed and hasn't touched one since. So we waited until they were old enough to 'reason' with.

[chickenlittle]

Ds1 still uses his at bed time, and he'll be 3 in May. I figure he will either outgrow it on his own, or his college roommate will mock him until he gets rid of it. Maybe I'm not the best person to ask 

[Deleted]

DS stopped actually using it around age 2. He naturally stopped sucking on them, and started holding them at night instead. At age almost 3, we transitioned him to a toddler bed, and told him "big boys don't use pacis." And got rid of them. He never missed them.

[motzie]

Pretty much cold turkey right at 2. She'd bitten a hole in it and wasn't using it much. She would just chew it on the side of her mouth. I stopped giving it to her and she didn't ask until the 4th or 5th day, then I just told her it was all gone because it was broken, and she didn't need it anymore.

[hermione]

C bit through her Wub at about 18 months so I took them away cold turkey. She found it mildly upsetting and I found it to be the saddest thing ever.

Originally I cut the paci part offand gave her the monkey but that upset her a lot and she just kept looking for them I part and asking for help. SADDEST THING EVER!

[marie3246]

Feb 5, 2015 18:46:49 GMT -5 hermione said:

C bit through her Wub at about 18 months so I took them away cold turkey. She found it mildly upsetting and I found it to be the saddest thing ever.

Originally I cut the paci part offand gave her the monkey but that upset her a lot and she just kept looking for them I part and asking for help. SADDEST THING EVER!

omg that is so sad. We are going on 20 min of crying so far. I cut the paci off the elephant and she was not amused. I have almost no willpower to give her one of the multiple back ups I have. 

[loskadoodle]

Like 2 days after he turned 2. Cold turkey but at that point he was only allowed to have it in bed. It went way easier than I thought it would.

[speckledfrog]

15 months, cold turkey. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, we were basically done in 3 days.

[cherry1111]

We cut the paci part off the Wubby and told him that Wubby was broken. He talked about Wubby being broken a few days and now is fine just taking the monkey to bed with no paci. It was easier than I thought. He will still ask for a paci at times, and then on Sunday he was apparently screaming while grocery shopping with DH so DH went and bought one and gave it to him. Ugh. Same page DH...we need to be on the same page.

[yellowbrkrd]

Around 18 months I started noticing chew marks and breaks in his pacis so I decided to cut him off cold turkey.

[jamer]

We just did at age 3. She was only using at nap time and night. We could reason with her and it went surprisingly great!

[humpforfree]

We did around 7 months when he was waking up like 4 or 5 times a night because it fell out. Just went cold turkey one night. It took like 20 minutes of fussing to fall asleep and then NO wake ups that night. It was awesome. (He was only using it for sleep.)

[Deleted]

At a year it was only in the car and at nap and bedtime. Then molars started so he had it some during the day. Then back to naps, bed and car. Then around 26 mos maybe we went cold turkey. He was chewing on them at that point and it wasn't safe. I was fine with him having it at bed longer if needed. My pedi dentist said to just ditch it by 4.

[wonderfezz]

22 months, cold turkey.

[marie3246]

So last night did not go well. She is more attached than I thought. I don't think we can go back though. She cried for 45 min before finally falling asleep and then she woke up at 1, cried for what felt like forever. We tried calling her but it just made it worse. We left her alone and she cried for awhile and finally slept. She was up for the day at 6. She usually wakes at 8. I forgot how much not sleeping sucks haha.

I just put her down for nap #1 and she isn't screaming so hopefully she falls asleep soon.

[jeaniebueller]

Feb 6, 2015 10:33:53 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

So last night did not go well. She is more attached than I thought. I don't think we can go back though. She cried for 45 min before finally falling asleep and then she woke up at 1, cried for what felt like forever. We tried calling her but it just made it worse. We left her alone and she cried for awhile and finally slept. She was up for the day at 6. She usually wakes at 8. I forgot how much not sleeping sucks haha.

I just put her down for nap #1 and she isn't screaming so hopefully she falls asleep soon.

It may take anywhere from a few days to a week or so. Stay strong! Don't turn back now

[marie3246]

Feb 6, 2015 10:37:16 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Feb 6, 2015 10:33:53 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

So last night did not go well. She is more attached than I thought. I don't think we can go back though. She cried for 45 min before finally falling asleep and then she woke up at 1, cried for what felt like forever. We tried calling her but it just made it worse. We left her alone and she cried for awhile and finally slept. She was up for the day at 6. She usually wakes at 8. I forgot how much not sleeping sucks haha.

I just put her down for nap #1 and she isn't screaming so hopefully she falls asleep soon.

It may take anywhere from a few days to a week or so. Stay strong! Don't turn back now

.

I left her pacis downstairs and wanted to get them a million times but luckily my laziness won. I hate hearing her cry!