Any tip's on getting rid of dummy for 14 month old or am I being mean ?

nikki_angel

Your child may have looked gormless with a dummy in but my daughter looks beautiful with and without it.

I am working on getting rid of the dummy now. She has just turned 2 and I think it is the right time for us as she is starting to demand it at times other than sleep.

lovesabargain123

I think it really depends on how attached to the dummy the child is.

We gave dd a dummy as a baby as she was a thumb sucker,took the dummy off her at 2 yrs old and she reverted back to the thumb and still sucks it at 15 when she is asleep (although she swears she doesn't :rotfl:)

DS1 was never really a dummy baby and gave his up without even having to try when he was about 16mths old...he just stopped asking for it really

Now DS2 on the other hand LOVED his dummy and finally got rid of it at the grand age of 7 lol it did stay in the house eventually but he was known to sneak it in his pocket for a sneaky fix at play time :rotfl: he was also a chewer and still now at 11yrs old sucks and chews things when he is tired or day dreaming but isn't conscious of doing it iykwim

I would give it a go if you think she is ready,at the end of the day she will get use to it eventually like everything else in life x

bylromarha

I heard about dummies being a hindrance to speech development when they hit 1 year so I chose to bin the dummy when weaning began at 5 months. So I don't think your mean OP.

Too young to reason with her about it, so I weaned her off it during the day, then for about a fortnight I let her use it to fall asleep only, then extracted it from her cot an hour or so later when it had naturally fallen out during sleep. We also added in a cutsey comforter rabbit at bedtime at the start of this fortnight.

Then we went for it - we removed the dummy. She wasn't happy, but we reassured with the rabbit instead of the dummy and she settled after a bit. We repeated this the next 2 nights and night 3 no dummy was needed.

She's now 4 and cutsey comforter is still a bedtime toy (and ONLY for bedtime), but not a necessity anymore for sleep.

MadDogWoman_2

DueMarch we really ramped it up in the 2 months before her birthday, so it was didn't end up sounding like a stuck record.

Bailey your DS is like my DD, was a really sucky baby (latched onto my cheek for 10 minutes immediately after birth - c-section so nothing else available) - constantly telling her to take her fingers out of her mouth, if she has something in her hand, in her mouth it goes!

She has a plaster on her thumb tonight as she has made the skin around the nail sore.

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oh bless her, its crazy isn't it how some kids are and some kids aren't. i'm glad we used a dummy though as i think i'd have a major thumb or finger sucker on my hands by now. Its bad enough me telling him multiple times a day to "Get that "whatever it is" out of your mouth". Today for instance I came into the lounge and he was watching tv with his fingers in, i gently moved them, they went straight back in, i got his attention and told him again, as I walked off his hand was moving back towards his face again. He seemed totally unaware of it, until i distracted him by turning off the tv and asking him to help me.

Can you get lead poisoning from pencils? I reckon that's the next step at school........

nextyeartina

my 2 youngest had a dodi & blanky at night or when they were tired until they were 4. dd1 just lost interest in hers. with dd2, we encouraged her to leave it under her pillow & only use if she really needed to. she never did. after a few weeks we just got rid of it & she's never asked about it since. she keeps her blanky on her bed but never uses it. when they're ready, you'll know

t, x

jopsey

WOW thanks for all replies some really good advice x cutting it down slowly in day and just take it from there she really loves her dummy though, she would have one in mouth one in each hand and one put down her vest if we let her lol

turn3r

We got rid of my daughter's dummy at 14 months and I had been completely dreading it and didn't know when to do it. We went on holiday to visit my sister and her family, my husband and I went out on the 2nd night for dinner and my sister put our daughter to bed without her dummy (I had forgotten to tell her she had one in bed) and when she asked for the dummy my sister said she couldn't find one so my daughter just went to sleep. When we came back and were told I hid all the dummys and she never used one again. Its a bit like potty training I guess when they feel ready to give it up they will!