Ditching the dummy. Starting tonight, I think. Advice needed.

[Beetle73]

DD turns 2 last week. I'm desperate to get rid of the dummy. Today, following a suggestion I saw on here, I cut the tip off one of them before giving it to her. (Probably made a mistake doing this in front of her, but anyway...) She howled her head off for about 20 minutes, wanting 'the lid' back. Absolutely inconsolable, and I felt like I'd killed her metaphorical cat. But when she finally did calm down, she was perfectly happy and enjoyed reading a book with me.

Question is, do I
1)Bite the bullet and mutilate every dummy tonight
2)Mutilate one dummy a night over the next week
3)Retain one intact dummy for bedtimes and snip all dummies likely to be found during the day???

All advice appreciated.

I personally would just get rid of them all rather than prolonging the agony. Good luck

Thanks Mears. The truth hurts!

agree with mears, it will probably take a couple of days but by next week youll be saying "what Dummy??"

Just go for it, as mears says dont prolong the agony good luck

With ds2 we allowed the dummy at nighttime for ages after it had gone in the daytime. Problem was, at around 3yo on difficult days he was sneaking upstairs to pop it in as comfort. Eventually we threw them all away except one and then set a date in about a week to throw the last one away. He did it himself and cried himself to sleep that night, but recovered pretty quickly, i.e. it only took a day or so and then he stopped asking for it.

I think in his case I'm glad we allowed the dummy at bedtime given that he was going through some stressful things in his life between 2 and 3 yrs old, but you know your dd best, if you think she'll cope then it might be best to just snip them all at the same time - you might get one or two tearful nights but then the problem will be solved.

i'm sorry to be the one to say this but i still remember my mom stealing my dummy... and i never forgave her!

dd only has hers for sleeping and is perfectly happy wwith that... she's 17 months. when she's old enough to understand we'll give the dummy to santa... know loads of people who've done this and the kids are usually pretty happy to give it up in exchange for their santa presents. why not just cut back to nighttime for now and do it at xmas.... if she has as many dummies as you've described cold turkey might be a bit harsh and she'll probably just find something to replace them with like a thumb or a ratty cloth.

My 2yr old dd2 has her dummy just at night.Ds2 gave his to santa when he was 3.Worked brilliantly and I will be doing it with dd2 this year.

Dd just turned 3 and she was just having a dummy to sleep, but was getting very attatched to it...so we told her about the dummy fairy..gave her a couple of nights warning, and explanation..( the dummy fairy has to have the dummies from the big kids to melt down to make dummies for all the new babies)...and she got a really cool present left by the dummy fairy. She howled for a couple of nights but was then fine. I would get rid of them in one go...Good luck!!

I took DD at three to post her dummies to the dummy fairy(when we got back the dummy fairy had left a present for her in her room). Because she knew that they had gone (and I was tough and they all went) she didn't ask for them.

It was a miracle . She was practically surgically attached.

Good luck - I was dreading it and had steeled myself for nights of trauma. I would just get rid of them, although at 2 perhaps you could also put pinpricks in the teat and let DD wean herself off too (perhaps not disfiguring them quite so blatantly next time )