If you didn't take your dc's dummy away...

[LynetteScavo]

at what age did they give it up themselves?

Don't know I am afraid, dd has never had one.

mine stil has one adn wil til hes 18

he traded it for a skateboard at 3.5
(but the trade also involved fairies)

The fairy dummy does take it from under DD's pillow during the day (has caused some angst abour fairies ) I just can't see her giving it up for anything at night.

How old is your DC, coping?

hes 7 months butif it has th same effect then he cn keepit

the skateboard was something that is only for little boys and the dummy was only for babies. we chatted about how babies can't go on skateboards etc. and somehow justified that little boys with skateboards didn't need dummies.

is there anything she would give it up for?

er, no.

We've told her she won't have a dummy when she's 3, which is 2 weeks away, and I'm getting nervous. I have said the fairies will swap it for a pressent, but I just know there will be cries of "I want my bummy".

er, no.

We've told her she won't have a dummy when she's 3, which is 2 weeks away, and I'm getting nervous. I have said the fairies will swap it for a pressent, but I just know there will be cries of "I want my bummy".

we originally planned to do the swap at christmas. but on the day it seemed a bit mean, plus we were away, so we bottled and gave it to him.
i'm not sure doing it on her birthday would be a good idea.
sorry.

DS only had it at night from fairly early on, but Lord God was he welded to it.

Our big break came when he was 2.5 and he had a terrible rash on his face. I went in and eyeballed the GP, and said X has a rash, it couldn't be connected to his dodie could it.??

GP took the bait and said, without a shadow of a doubt.

Cue a few nights of I want my dodie, ring Dr B and ask him if I can have it back.

A few nights of Dr B's secretary promising he would call back and it was all over.

I already know I'm going to bottle out and let her have it. Having a hole in it doesn't seem to be an issue for her, and I've had to wrestle bitten ones off her for safety reasons.

So, as I'm so weak, I'm wondering if she will have it as long as I sucked my thumb (12 )

Bree, I don't think they provide that seveice on the NHS!

As my DS was 3yrs on christmas eve so we told him that since he was a big boy now he should leave his dummy for father christmas to take to all the new babies who had been born that day and in return he'd get presents. I wasn't too convinced that it would work but it did.He never actually asked for it back but he did say he missed it.

DD has declared she will have her "bummy" when she is "3 and 4 and 5 and big and a grown up".

Surely she will choose to give it up herself one day? [weak mother emoticon]

my sisters ds just gave his up at the ripe old age of 5!! He was offered some Ben10 figures if he managed without it for 10 days which he did and he hasnt used it since. His brother who is 3 still has his. His sister who is 9 also gave hers up just before starting school.

I got rid of my ds's at 5 months as I got sick of replacing it every time it fell out in the night.

My dd gave hers up on her 3rd birthday. we had talked about it for several weeks, saying that big girls of 3 don't have dummies and the dummy fairy would swap it for a gift then one night she decided she didn't want it any more- we were sceptical but she never asked for it again and got a Barbie DVD from the dummy fairy

(to me 3 years was just too long even though she only had it for naps and at bedtime so I have just taken ds's away at 19 weeks- he wasn't too keen on it anyway (likes his fists too much so rather than encourage it I've been brave and hopefully avoided dealing with it in the future!)

Ds gave up bottles and dummies in the same week at 11 months - just wouldn't take either any more.

Weird.

But handy

Some have given them up at 4yo, some at 2yo, some at 3yo. Some didn't have one at all. One didn't have a dummy until turned 1yo when stopped bf-ing
Another still sneaked it for bedtime at 5yo.

You may have guessed but I don't have a problem with dummies.

It was just before DD1 turned 3, she was using it for night only, and she had been a bit naughty so DH decided as punishment her dummy would get cut up. He chopped the teat off there and then and hey presto, nothing. No crying, no nothing.

Did the same with DD2 3mnths ago(she is 3 in october) and the same again, no problems.

dd was just 4. she 'gave' her dummies to her younger cousin when we went to visit.

Told dd (who was then 2.4) I had left them at Grandad's house by mistake. Cried for a few nights then gave up. Then discovered her thumb 2 months ago. Any chance we can leave that at Grandad's too???

juuule, while you're here, just want to THANKYOU for the great advice you gave me this time last year when I was having problems with DS1 and his school phobia.(I was probably posting under another name)- You were so right, by the way - so I think I may just drop my obsession with loosing the dummy.

Actually, it wasn't so much a school phobia, but a very sensible dislike of an institution that wasn't meeting his needs. - He is very happy at his new school.

Sorry - back to dummys.