To send my DD's dummy away on a helium balloon?

[clabsyqueen]

My other half thinks I'm nuts for wanting a momentous 'send off' to mark the farewell to the dummy. He also thinks it's ecologically unsound and potentially dangerous. Our 3year old DD has been very attached to it since pre-birth if you will (she was very premature) and I get quite emotional thinking about how much comfort it has given her over the years, especially in my absence in the incubator. She is very articulate and switched on and is able to explain "I love my dummy, it makes me so happy and when I suck it I feel soooo comfy!" (She means relaxed) It's going to be hard to do this subtlety. I feel that a helium balloon send off would be great. Fairies live in the sky right? Also there's no way to get it back at 3am when we will inevitably will regret the decision to get rid.

OP, as others have said, you really must read "Digging to America" by Anne Tyler. The "Binky party " which one of the characters throws to get rid of her daughter's dummies, complete with helium balloons to take the "binkies" to the fairies is brilliant. And it doesn't work.

Swap the dummy for a big ticket item. Ours was swapped for a scooter, dd1 was very happy!

My dd was very much attached to hers. It also was affecting her palate. We had a big taken about how it was changing her mouth shape and that it wasn't a good thing. She reluctantly left them out for the dummy fairy. Got a present in the morning and really was ok.

I couldn't do the balloon thing. I could imagine a screaming child trying to catch it!

My dd's dummy got wrapped up and put in the village post box, addressed to (randomly, but now I think about it, quite aptly) the Tooth Fairy.
Goodness knows what the postie made of it....one really giant tooth?

Yes I would do the 'ceremony' whatever you choose at night so the novelty is still there in helping her go to sleep without it.

We left mine at a friend's house for their cat

It's a great idea.
I got my dummy sucking dc to leave theirs on the xmas tree for the baby reindeer and also for the baby bunnies at Easter :)

We did the overnight thing (in answer to upthread question).
The dummy thing had got to the stage where we were getting up about four or five times during the night to find the bloody thing and it was making everyone tired.
We talked about it for about a week before we got rid.
On the Friday night the dummies were put in a pot which was sealed up and left on the windowsill.
On the Saturday morning (after a restless night) the pot was opened to reveal a present (Crayons, a colouring book and some jangly bracelets).
We had about three nights of "I want my dummy" but pushed the 'you're a big girl' message and that the dummies had gone to poorly babies (I was desperate). We've not had any repercussions.

Next Sunday is the big night. Thanks ladies. My other half feels vindicated. No helium balloon.

We did the dummy fairy thing for DD1, she hung a pretty pink bag on the door and in the morning there was a silk flower (thank you ikea!) one for each dummy. We made sure that the dummies were all binned so we couldn't cave when she asked for them back.

Good Luck for next Sunday.

My friend had the air hostess on their flight home from holiday come by with a sick bag to collect everyone's dummies in after the meals and coffee cups had been collected, her ds believed it was routine that everyone was giving in dummies now.
Every time he saw a plane in the sky for quite a while he would say "my dummy's up there".