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Getting rid of the dreaded DoDo/Dummy

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Lovemylittlebear · 29/04/2015 17:10

Any nice ideas on how to get rid of the dodo? My dd is 2yrs 4 months and has it at nap time and bed time. She cries still when it falls out her mouth in the night if in a light sleep. Not really wanting advice on if I should get rid of it in the near future or why I haven't already but it would be lovely if someone had some nice ideas on how to do it?

Thanks

Xxx

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girliefriend · 29/04/2015 17:16

Think there are various dummy fairies etc, put them all in a box and the dummy fairy will take them away and replace with a new toy.

However I went with chucking them all in the bin and saying 'oh dear all the dummies have gone now sweetie' we had one night of crying and that was that!!

wintersdawn · 29/04/2015 17:25

my dd was desperate for a bike and we told her only big girls had bikes and big girls didn't have dummies. same as you she only had them for naps and night time and she was 2 and 1/2. bought the bike one afternoon, that night had some tears but explained bike would have to go back if she had it back.
same the next night and never asked again, think the fact she'd exhausted herself on the bike helped

ditavonteesed · 29/04/2015 17:26

we cobbed it away and everytime dd asked for it we said daddy is here. I am sure it was nicer than that but thats how I remember it.

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Snozberry · 29/04/2015 17:30

We have taken my 2yo dummies away 2 days ago after she managed to bite the end off one! We are just saying "oh it’s gone" with a shrug when she asks, and then distracting her to something else. So far there has been hardly any grizzling, I think by tomorrow it will be forgotten.

Panzee · 29/04/2015 17:35

We just stopped having them around, stopped replacing them if they broke and stopped taking them out with us. We would let him have one at night but only if he asked, and eventually he stopped asking. He was older though. It wasn't painful and we didn't need to make it a thing.

Isthatwhatdemonsdo · 29/04/2015 17:38

Father Christmas took my children's away.

MoonHare · 29/04/2015 17:45

The dummy fairy came to our house when dd1 was about 2.5, she was excited about the fairy coming and I think the fairy left a small gift. Dd never asked for her dummies again. Luckily dd2 and 3 never took to a dummy.

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Lovemylittlebear · 29/04/2015 18:19

Fantastic ideas - thanks guys :) xx

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RedCrayons · 29/04/2015 18:27

I put all the dummies in his bed with him, so he could put them in himself. Then we moved onto dummies have to stay in the bedroom.
Eventually he stopped asking for them. Mind you he then moved onto teddies at bedtime, and now we are over run with the buggers.

daluze · 29/04/2015 20:56

When my DS was 2 years and 3 months, one time when dummy felt out of the cot during naptime, I "couldn't find it". He cried a bit (~10 min). Then after the nap and before sleep for the next 3 days we would look for it together under the cot, but couldn't find. Overall it wad much easier than I thought it would be, although he really loved his dummy (used for sleep only). His sleep improved (extra hour in the morning) and no more trips to his room at night to recover lost dummy!

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Lovemylittlebear · 30/04/2015 06:44

thank you guys :) we have a dumny addict here who hoes 0-60 in the night when it falls out her mouth. will see how it goes xx

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Hadeda · 01/05/2015 12:43

I snipped a hole in the end of it. DD could have it as much as she liked but it didn't work.
Worked a charm with DD1. She sucked it a few times, it didn't work and she just left it.
DD2 was ANGRY! She knew I had something to do with the dummy no longer working although she didn't know what. But I'd snipped all of them so unless I bought more (which I wasn't going to) they were all broken. We had an afternoon of tears, angry tears, but I really don't remember it being an issue that carried on for long. I think I remember telling DD2 how very grown up and like DD1 she was without a dummy as that has always been one of her key buttons...

Good luck with it, it's nice when they're gone!!

Notso · 01/05/2015 12:50

With DD we just took it away and DH I was a wuss and couldn't stand her being so upset stayed up with her half the night. After then she never asked for it again.

DS1 announced at 3 he didn't need his anymore and that was that.

I hoped DS2 would do the same and couldn't go cold turkey as had DS3 still with a dummy so we just explained what a big boy DS2 was and left the dummy in his bedside drawer. Some nights he got it out, other nights he didn't, we praised him loads if it was still in the drawer and after about a fortnight he never used it again. It seemed like a nice gentle transition with no tears.

Once DS3 has cracked potty training his dummy will be going in the drawer too.

Bahh · 02/05/2015 12:54

Gave it to Santa Christmas just gone, and she got a jelly maker in return. Don't know what it was like at her mums but we had a couple of weeks of tantrums and crying, after that died down she did continue to have sleepless nights for a few more weeks because she wasn't as comforted as before. Just persevere, it will pass. She hasn't commented on it for probably two months now.

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