When did your toddler give up the dummy?

[sarahloula]

My DD is 18 months and she still loves her dummy. She very rarely has it during the day (unless she sees one/upset) but does still have them for bed. When did your little one give up the dummy completely?

My son was just under 3. I was a bit worried about his teeth, but my dentist wasn't too bothered and just said he'd be ok if he stopped before his adult teeth came through. I wish I had done it a bit earlier but I anticipated a big problem as he loved it so much. In the end, when we stopped, he asked for it a mere couple of times and that was it. Since stopping his speech improved and his teeth too (he had slightly "short" front teeth as the dummy stopped them coming down fully).

Dd2 has just got rid of hers at 3 years 1 month. No problems they went to the dummy fairy on New Year's Day. I always new it needed to be done but the dentist mentioned it was affecting her bite.

the day after her 4th birthday...all by herself... We tried twice before hand but she wasn't ready it was too much of an 'essential'. She had it only to settle at night and when she was really upset. She still has her soft toy and that lives in her bed. We had talked about it being for babies and she was a big girl and that was that . the first night it was kept under her pillow and she went to it once or twice but after nothing. She is very strong willed and did it all pretty much in the quiet. her speech is fine, she is bilingual and has perfect teeth according to the dentist.

Thank you all, I shall stop worrying about it for now then.

About your DDs age; maybe 17m. He bit holes in them all and then didn't like them in his mouth. I bought a couple of new ones but they were gnarled, so I chucked them all, including the intact ones.

It was basically cold turkey but we had two nights of a couple of minutes grizzling at most, and then he was fine.

You could try cold turkey and see what happens? I've heard once you hit 2 it's a lot harder to get them off.

"...in them all..." - well patently not, given my later intact comment! I think one escaped

Toddler? DS1 was 7!!!! , DS2 was 4 -
Don't be too quick. You wouldn't whip away their favourite teddy :(

btw. their speech is absolutely fine, always has been and their teeth are perfect

My DD was 2 but she was mainly using it at night. The Dummy Fairy came one night and that was it. We did keep finding them around the house and she would put them in a bag to take to her best friend's baby brother as she had then decided they were for babies. They were then binned by her best friends Mum. It was surprisingly simple.

I wasn't stressed about it but it was amazing how other people were. My MIL was particularly bad, she would call (we live in Dubai and she lives in the UK) to ask if we had managed to stop it yet.

Just after their second birthdays.

We spoke about two being bigger and not needing them months before.

Both of them threw them away.

DS1 was just turned 3. Tommee Tippee changed the design and he didn't like them. His dummys needed updating as they were past it and we said we'd thrown the old ones away. He coped fine.

DS2 - just before he was 3, we said the babies needed them now and he wouldn't touch them after that.

DS3 gave his up recently at 2.5. He was going off it anyway, and I just mentioned that the babies might like his dummies and he gave them to me! It was that easy, I put him to bed that night with the dummies on standby , but he didn't even moan.

One of my worries was that he would wake up earlier but that hasn't happened either.

I wouldn't worry about it yet, she is still very young.