So if throw every dummy in the house in the bin tonight....

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how long will it take to get them to sleep without them?

DD is 11mo and DS 2 doesn't really use his, just steals his sisters occassionally.

Is binning them the way to do it? The bloody things annoy the hell out of me, DD is always waking up to have it put back in and DS really doesn't need one.

That's what we did with dd2 when she was 2.5 ish.

She went to sleep fine, we were .

And she was alright when she woke in the night too.

More fear on our part, I htink!

Thats encouraging, not sure how DD will react though.

I got rid of my kids when they were 3... by then they were only having it at night as we had cut right down.. I told them that father xmas was going to give them to a baby that needs them and was going to leave them with a cuddly toy... this worked well for us..

Do they have them through out the day?

I managed to get my 3 year old to drop the dummies one Christmas too. I got her to put them in her stocking for Santa and in return he left her 2 new Barbie dolls - I never heard about them again! It was that easy. I think you have to be strong with this one, but it's worth the pain of them whining for it.

Think it will be easier with the 2 year old than the 11 month old. We just got rid of dd's who is nearly 3. It has been fine but we could do lots of talking about it beforehand as she's that bit older. We did it at the same time as moving her to a bed - "No dummies in the big bed" etc. There has been some mucking about at bedtime but I think that's mainly as she's now sharing with her brother so bedtime larks are the order of the day. Hopefully novelty will wear off soon. Once asleep she hasn't woken once for the dummy and she was really addicted before - used to beg for it and steal them from cupboards etc.

I did it with a four month old and it took 4 days maybe for him to learn to settle without it. Good luck - really glad I did it and we haven't looked back. Sleep is so much better now.

I think the 11 mo might struggle actually. I only did this with dd2 when she was 2.5yrs, so I could comfort her and she understood. An 11 mo won't understand.... Unless you are prepared for cold turkey. Not going in at all and leave her to cry bit out? then it might work....

I took DD's dummy away when she was 10 months because she had a horrendous cold and couldn't breathe and was trying to suck the dummy at the same time so it seemed as good a time as any. I'm really glad I did as it took about four days to get out of the habit of the dummy. We didn't leave her to cry it out though, didn't need to, it was plenty of cuddles and reassurances, but she would have needed that anyway as she couldn't actually suck the dummy at that point anyway.

Thanks all.

Have chickened out so far, i'm starting tomorrow morning.

Not sure what to do with DD, might wean her off it during the day and leave it for her in her cot, so DS can't get to it.

We bought our DD a new toy which had to be left in the box unopened at the end of her bed until she had done without the dummy for one night. Never looked back