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When did your child stop using a dummy?

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LuckyAugust · 04/04/2015 08:21

DS1 wasn't interested in a dummy at all where as DS2 absolutely loves his and would happily have it all day long (other than when eating or drinking). He'll be 2 next month and I think its time to face the horrible task and try and wean him off it. Am I starting to early? My plan was to try and only let him have it on a night, expecting some major tantrums.........

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TongueBiter · 04/04/2015 08:24

At about 3 1/2 I think. (The dentist still comments on it!)

WhyOWhyWouldYou · 04/04/2015 09:32

DS stopped having his at 2.5yrs, when he broke the last one that we knew the whereabouts of. It was actually really easy - I showed him it was broke and we binned it together. He asked for it a couple of times but I just reminded him it was in the bin because it had broke. However he only had it at naps and night since 1yr.

PunkrockerGirl · 04/04/2015 09:40

Ds2 had turned 3 in the November and he agreed to let me give it to Santa so that he could take it away.
He only had one dummy left, it was a revolting, manky thing but he'd never let me replace it. Anyway, after throwing it in the bin giving it to Santa, he never referred to it again, so I guess he was ready to give it up anyway.

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Roseybee10 · 04/04/2015 11:35

Just before turning two. We got her a duvet and pillow for her bed and that night she never asked for her dummy and never has since.
She only ever had her dummy for sleeping though.

Amummyatlast · 04/04/2015 11:52

We went cold turkey at about 18 months. It was hard - lots of disturbed nights! But I was concerned about her teeth. She was also still having a bottle at the time, having refused to drink milk from a cup (despite having used an open cup for water since she was 6 months old). We found that we had to take to bottle away at the same time as was reminding her of her dummy. But now, at 20 months, she goes to bed quite happily and with no crying.

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LuckyAugust · 04/04/2015 16:20

Thanks everyone

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RVPisnomore · 04/04/2015 16:25

At 6 months, he just wouldn't take to the new flatter ones so gave it up completely in the space of a day and wasn't in the least bit bothered surprisingly.

houseofnerds · 04/04/2015 16:26

First birthday for the first two, and the third didn't have one. She couldn't suck and despite SCBU trying to train her with a dummy, she would not cooperate. We had a magic pink snowsuit that stopped her wailing though, bizarrely (outs self to anyone around at the time. Legend snowsuit.)

I didn't want them old enough to be able to argue with me or ask for it...

gonegrey56 · 04/04/2015 16:28

When my dad was about two, she was given a garden slide. My husband said she could have it if she put all her dummies in the bin. She watched him assemble it, then took the dummies and flung them in the bin then raced up the slide ! Never had a peep out of her again about her dummies . I never thought this would work, but it did . Good luck !

gonegrey56 · 04/04/2015 16:30

Daughter! Autocorrect....

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