When did you/planning on weaning off a dummy?

[Billygoats]

Just that really, dd is 6 months and when she wakes in the night cannot self settle without it. So some nights it is constant dummy finding and replacing. She only takes it when napping or during the night.

I am seriously considering going cold turkey. She has a blanket she uses as a comforter too so hoping she will learn to rely more on this. Any experiences?

You could try her without it and see if she is able to settle herself without it. But if not, I'd leave her for now. If it's a problem with losing the dummy in the night, put lots of them in her cot.

DS 6 months, DD 8 months. Within 24/48 hours it was as if they'd never had a dummy. Watching the hell SIL went through weaning dummy addicted twins off of them at 3years old made me very very pleased I made the decision to get rid of them when I did.

DD still has her for naps and bedtimes, she's 2 in November. IIRC she went through this very phase of waking throughout the night and the constant dummy searching.. We bought three in the end and put them all in there with her By the time she got to about 9mo she had learnt how to find them herself.

DS is 2.7 and still has dummy for:
Bedtime
Naps in the car
Illness

I couldn't give a shit. His speech is fine his teeth aren't wonky, he has never woken crying if it fell out in the night (pure luck, I know).

He doesn't use it during the day, or try to talk through it.he'll give it up eventually. If you remove the dummy and give them another thing as comfort, won't they be just as unsettled if they drop.it in the night? (clueless emoticon)

^^ he'll give it up eventually

(Fat fingers!!)

Dd cold turkeyd at 2....

Only had it for naps and night in cot.

At around 6.5 months. Didn't take long and she's never looked back. She has a comforter toy which she adores.

DD is 3 and loves her "dodo". She has it at bedtime only now. I will probably take it off her at 4 if she seems ready but she struggles to get to sleep at night anyway at the moment..

Almost 18 months and DS2 still has his...a far better thing than the disgusting finger-sucking that DS1 was addicted to until age 7. It was such a horrific battle to help DS1 break the habit. Thank god for dummies - you can take them away when it's time, but you can't exactly get rid of their fingers or thumbs!

When DD was 2 we started "forgetting" to give it to her, and avoided it during the day. At 2.5 she agreed to give it up and that was it. DS was keener and we had a battle, though from 2 it was night time only. The cut off came at 4. Since we have DS2 in May I didn't want to put pressure on him then, so with HV advice we focused on his 4th birthday in July as the cut off point. We prepared him loads, saying that he was a big boy now, now the dummy was damaging his teeth and the dentist would be cross (true, I got loads of grief every time and actually stopped going!) etc. On the eve of his birthday all dummies were collected and put under his pillow for the dummy fairy (his older sister has been visited lots by the tooth fairy, so he was really excited to leave something under his pillow for a fairy, bless him!), who took them all and gave him two toy cars instead. He was delighted, and to my massive surprise that was it. He hasn't asked for the dummies. Although DS went for longer than I expected/wanted I am glad we did not turn it into a fight or upset him.

DS2 refuses the dummy and has found his thumb, so that might be it then!