Any amazing ideas on getting rid of the dummy?

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Or is cold turkey my best (possibly torturous) option?

DD is 22 months and has a dummy for naps and night time sleep, but she has started splitting her dummies. Just 5mm tears max but I’m not happy to use them once I’ve seen a split and frankly it’s costing me a fortune in MAM dummies from Amazon as no where local has them.

She screams like a banshee if she loses her dummy during the night until I go in an find it for her. It’s usually on the floor.

My localish mum group tell me our health visitor advocates a Super nanny technique of leaving the dummy’s out for the fairies and then the fairies leave the child a gift.
I’m not sure this is the way for us, I don’t think DD would necessarily understand this idea, combined with the fact I rarely agree with supernanny!

So yes, any super ways or votes for cold turkey gladly noted.

ds1 was older than your dd (I think nearly 3) and was still using dummies - at night he had them on a dummy holder attached to his pyjamas, which worked brilliantly (plus various scattered around his cot!).

We had tried for a while to wean him off them then one day he got a 'sore' near his mouth - just a spot/sore bit - and we told him that was because of his dummy and it was time to not have them any more.

Bizarrely, that did the trick! He just needed a logical reason to stop using them and he went cold turkey that day - so maybe find a really logical reason to stop using them?!

Following for our 2 year old ... hope someone has some good tips here !

Both my dcs stopped using dummies at a similar age due to the same reason. I showed them the split on the dummy and said 'it's broken we'll have to throw it away, be careful not to chew them or they'll break'. Then when they inevitably chewed the last dummy and split it showed it to them again and said 'oh dear that's the last dummy broken. There's no more now but you've still got to cuddle at night time instead.' I encouraged them to throw the broken dummy in the bin themselves so they could see it was gone. With both children they woke asking for their dummy the 1st couple of nights but I reminded them that all the dummies were broken now and they gave them a teddy to cuddle instead.

We didn't have any tears, even with ds2 who was dummy-obsessed, but I appreciate I might have just got lucky!

Speaking as someone who went through all the leave them out for the fairies, Santa, all the little babies who don’t have them palava, just gather them up and cut them and be done with them. I’m sure it sounds really harsh but none of the other stuff worked. Had a couple nights where it took longer to get dd off to sleep but after that it was fine and no mention of them. I did get a new cuddly toy instead and when dd asked the first two nights just gave her a cuddle and reminded her she got the new toy to have instead. (My dd was older than yours though)

We used to live somewhere very very snowy. When ds was about 18 months he lost his dummy. It was the middle of winter, there was a terrible snow storm raging outside, several feet of snow and compacted ice on the pavements and no such thing as online shopping. There was no way I was going to get him a new one so that was the end of the dummy. He cried for about a day, didn't sleep properly for about 3, and then forgot it ever existed. If you want to get rid of them I'd just steel your nerves and go for it. Lots of cuddles, a few sleepless nights, and it'll all be over and she'll be fine.

For a 22 month old you can't use any ofthe story type methods as they don't understand yet.

Cold turkey and deal with the fallout, cut holes in them so they no longer work or replace it with something else (not sure what though!)

I did the 'Dummy Dragon' with both mine.. I'd also used this for getting shut of bottles too. It was hard slog for the first few days/nights but they quickly adjusted. The Mummy dragon was kind enough to leave a thank you present too which certainly helped.

She’s actually napping right now without it,** which shows she can do it if she wants so looks like cold turkey is the way. I will try again at bedtime to go dummy free.
She was a nightmare when I went cold turkey with the bottles. She is very stubborn!

** I will add that she is only napping dummy feee because I saw the amazon driver (bringing another 4 pack of dummies) pull on to the drive and his ferocious knock terrifies her so I plonked her in the cot and ran to open the door before he hammered on the porch window. When I came back up she was sound asleep!

You just remove them. Take them away. None of the fairies nonsense. In 48 hours they will have been forgotten!

During the day, we just went cold turkey. Nighttime's was a bit later and it coincided with my nephew being born so we 'gave the baby a present of some dummies' and sister in law binned them when we left x

Day 1 put a little pin size hole in every dummy, as days go by make the hole bigger, do this at night so the little one won't realise its you doing it. Basically an air hole in the dummy takes away the pleasure of the dummy for them. Worked a treat with my son. After 5/6 days he just stopped looking for them. Good luck

Got rid of ours when DD was 19 months. She had a really nasty cold and couldn't suck and breathe so took it off her after 5 hours of hell to get some sleep for us both and decided it was best just to never give it back although we did go through so really bad nights once she was well as she came to terms with it. It also meant we had to provide more comfort in the form of cuddles during the night as we could no longer just pop it back in and watch her fall straight back to sleep. Be careful what you wish for!

I've heard a few try the fairies thing but some end up giving it back! We took hers away at 27months she was a massive addict! Thought it wld be so hard and she was actually ok did ask for it a couple of times at bed time. Second night worse than the first. She's now 3.5 and wld still like it sucks her wee sister sometimes.

I heard about a book and I was going to buy that. It's a story about a child giving up their dummy.

Old school solution used on me by my grandma 40 years ago

Glue 'hair' (strips from a coconut) onto the dummy and say that it's a grown up dummy now and needs to go and make more dummies for new babies

My grandma was pretty odd and also rubbed whisky on my gums for teething and let me lick the booze off the maraschino cherries in her drink

Yes, I had two with dummies both gone around age 2.

Ds1 birthday August, he put his on the bonfire as "a big boy now". I just kept saying it and it worked

Ds2 Birthday December, his went on the tree for FC to take for nother child. This worked a treat too.

Dd 16 and we still catch her sucking her thumb, she wouldn't have a dummy and her teeth have needed braces.

Seal it in a build a bear and then sleep with that seems the most common

With my sone he dropped it on the floor in the supermarket, i picked it up. When he asked I just said it was lost. That was it

My friend told her DD it had a spider in it (they were farmers but still)

My DC was similar age and, like yours, started splitting dummies. The Supernanny method worked very well. Mind you, we did have huge, elaborate ceremony and hanged the bag by the front door. Sure enough, the bag was full of little presents and sweets the next morning. DC did get upset couple night later, but gentle reminder that other babies needed dummies more than him, did the trick.
Good luck!

Every night I cut a chunk out of her dummy until there was nothing left to suck - sadly we had to bin it!

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