dummies - breaking the habit

[kellie37]

my youngest is 2 1/2 and the dentist has said that she has to give up the dummy

she gave up the bottle a long time ago with no problems but wouldnt give up the dummy.

she has agreed to give her dummies to the easter bunny in exchange for a special egg i just hope that it works.

all my others gave theirs to santa and i never had any problems, mind you they were all 4.

how did you get your kid to give up theirs?

any tips would be very helpful

kellie

 

[Verity Chambers]

Evie is 2 and 2 months. She still has hers to sleep to at night, I know we need to break that habit too, not looking forward to it too much!

 

[carolfoy]

good luck with it but persevere, a friend of callums still used his when he was well into primary age and the mother thought there was nothing wrong with it! needless to say he now has deformed teeth.
I was lucky and when callum dropped his out a window at age of around 2 I looked at him and said 'all gone!' and he just accepted it. (I had an emergency one on standby but he just seemed to accept it!)

 

[natalielongstaff]

Im a firm believer in going cold turkey...bin them all at once and don't give in !

then again i thought i was being rather smart in removing ds's dummies at 8mths old...he started to suck his fingers

 

[wickesy]

Apparently I decided I was a "big boy" and gave mine to the dustman. When I decided I wanted it back my Mum told me it was too late and the dustman had taken it, although secretly she had taken it out of the dustbin, washed it and hidden it away just in case.

 

[pixiepower04]

I can't remember exactly but I think we told the kids that when they turn 3 they're big boys and girls now and we have to put heir dummies under the pillow and the dummy fairy takes them away.

There wasn't really a battle as we'd been preparing them for a while and we left some money under their pillow to compensate!

 

[SammieG]

my son gave his away -cant remember who we gave them to now.. and he never asked for it again. he was seriously addicted though. He had about 5 in his bed at night... he would pop one in, take it out, put a different one in.. until it felt "just right"....

I thought it was cute.. but it probably was only cute to a mummy

 

[Beth__WDW23/6/02]

We've been quite lucky she hasnt had "dodie" for a long time,she is 3 in June.
She basically just didnt want it anymore.

Fingers crossed for you all and hope the transition goes smoothly

 

[PoppyAnna]

My two girls suck their thumbs, luckily less and less now - only in bed.
I tried a dummy for quite a while when they were tiny but both rejected them as soon as they were put in their mouths. Both of my best friends DD's had dummies, she made a point of getting rid of them on their first birthday saying that you are a walking big girl now, she made them watch her throw them away. She also felt they should get comfort from cuddles etc. She came around for a play afternoon with her eldest one day just after she was one and my DD and her DD were tired and not "getting on" that afternoon and she started going for her mum's bag looking for her "dum-dum" my friend persevered and didn't give in.
My nephew had a dummy until rising four and he perfected speaking out of the side of his mouth with it in and although it is gone now and he is at school he still speaks in an odd way!
I wish sometimes I could throw away my girls thumbs, eldests teeth are slightly protruding but not noticable, the Dentist says she's seen worse from dummy users - the Dentist told my eldest DD to not suck her thumb and she remembers it and just does it at night time now.
Good luck!

 

[gilld]

My eldest daughter had a dummy and I hated it so much, I just didn't give my other two one at all.

 

[Merylj]

We gave DD a fiver for hers when she was five. DH was starting to get really worried about it!
I`ve no advise - but the best of luck

 

[CHEK]

Neither of my DD's had a dummy until they went to Nursery, and starting pinching the other babies dummies . My eldest gave her's to the binman without too many problems, but then having an Oct birthday and when her pre-school friends left for school she decided she needed her thumb. My youngest left her's for Santa when she was just over 2, she decided she'd exchange her dummy for toy's , but by 5pm she was asking if santa could take her toys away cos she needed her dummy , goodluck

 

[Cyrano]

Im a firm believer in going cold turkey...bin them all at once and don't give in !:

If ours had had dummies that would be our approach.

Grannie only ever made the mistake once of buying a dummy

Good luck with getting them weaned off them. I've heard the idea of giving them up often works positively.

 

[BRobson]

Havent got any more advise - but hope it all goes well

It often a thought but your DD may well surprise you - good luck