No longer having the expense of dummies

garret1

The dodi fairy came to our twins and took the dodies and left a little prezzie and a note telling them how big they were. We did it gradually at first. The dodi fairy left one under their pillow for a few nights for bedtime then replaced it with the present and note. A good book to read them is "I want my dummy" by Tony Ross. Our girls were 3 too and it went fine. Good luck.

modgit

Our dodi went to Santa 2 christmas ago, and I too had not gathered them all up. So I let DS have this spare dodi, under the understanding there was no more, if he lost this one, i wouldn't replace it. All well, then at the Easter, I read about a local farm where you could take dummies and they hang them up for the pigs to suck on, I told him we would be going, and later that day he gave me his dodi for the pigs, and never asked again!

Spendless

Whilst she wasn't looking I hid the overlooked dummy in a high cupboard. We then went out for tea to celebrate her being a big girl. When she went to bed she asked for her dummy and I said the dummy fairies had been and took it as she had already had the doll in return for her dummies and they had left a note saying this. She then demanded to see the note:rolleyes: . I couldn't find a piece of paper and read nonsense from it cos her 6 year old brother was still awake (and he's just mastered reading:rolleyes: ). Told her couldn't find it. Eventually after a lot of messing needing drinks, going to loo etc, she has gone to sleep without it :T .

pdoff

well done spendless!!!!!!!!!!!
now bin the dummy - u don't want it falling out when u open the cupboard. lol.

modgit, where is that farm? it sounds great!

black-saturn

The trick is to make them think it was their idea to do it. If they think they are being forced into giving it up they will miss it.

pdoff

black-saturn wrote:

The trick is to make them think it was their idea to do it. If they think they are being forced into giving it up they will miss it.

that's why we let ds1 choose what he wanted to swap them for. it worked, the only time he asked for 1 after i said he would lose his guitar & he not asked since. no trying to steal baby's dummy either. yay! when he helped cut the teats off we kept asking if he was sure he wanted to swap them for the guitar & he kept saying yes. i think that was the problem with his friend who gave them to santa so now he sucks his finger. think i'm repeating myself now so will shut up!!

Spendless

She got thru the night without one. Woke up a couple of times and asked for it but I told her she'd given them to the baby and she had a drink and went back to sleep. made a huge fuss this morning about how clever she was and suggested she tell her nursery teachers all about her giving her dummies away, which she did. :T . She's at nursery all day so going to have a good look around for any other missed dummies and get rid

nickinoo

I can't bear to try this with my daughter just yet (she is 3 in September) but I probably should. I think I may try once we move house.

Spendless

black-saturn wrote:

The trick is to make them think it was their idea to do it. If they think they are being forced into giving it up they will miss it.

I initially put the idea in her head, but each time visiting the baby was mentioned (the visit had been planned about 4-5 weeks ago) I asked her what she was giving the baby and she kept talking about giving the dummies up.

What I forgot to mention if anyone else is thinking of doing this. DD told her 6yo brother all about giving the dummies away and he did his best to talk her out of it :rolleyes: . He pointed out she'd cry for it if she hurt herself or at bed-time and even out at tea last night he suggested she asked me to keep one just in case she needed it at bed-time. In the end I had to have a discreet word with him whilst she was out of ear-shot.;) He never had a dummy so he couldn't relate his own experience of giving them up to her.

Just thought I'd mention it, in case anyone else is wanting to get their LO to give them up and they also have a 'helpful' older sibling

*Louise*

I think it's a lovely idea 'giving' them to a new baby.

It would be nice for your little one to get a small prsent in return.

My DS1 gave up the dummy on his 2nd birthday - I moved him into the 'big boy's bed' a month before and we decided that only babies had dummies. Didn't have any problems - the only sign that he missed it was when he was looking longingky at his baby cousin's dummy, which I later found under his pillow - apparently he just wanted 'to look at it':rotfl: :rotfl: