Ditching the dummy!

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Morning all!

Little one is coming up to 23 months old. He’s recently started biting holes in his dummy. Hysterical in bed last night, kept throwing his dummy away, checked it and there was a hole in it. I’d only replaced it with a new one the night before. Anyway, he’s chewed a hole in the new one I gave him last night so I’m wanting some tips please on how to get rid of the dummy!
Severe speech delay, (waiting for a referral) he’s been to the dentist and she’s happy with his teeth, he’s got second molars to come through and his fangs. He only has the dummy to nap and sleep with, he has a comfort blanket. He’s very attached to his dummy though and I’m nervous it’s going to be hell, any tips will be massively appreciated!! We have a night out planned for Saturday (first night out in a year) so little one is being watched over and I’m wondering do I cancel the night out?

Thanks all!

Having a google and other threads are saying if little one doesn’t understand or stills needs a comforter then they are too young. I don’t know what to do as he can’t carry on with dummy chewing

He might be a bit young for what I did, my ds was about 2.5 when I got rid of the dummy's. We had a dentist appointment and the dentist mentioned it was effecting his teeth so that night I told him the dentist said he's not allowed the dummy anymore because it's hurting his teeth, I was very surprised that he just accepted the reason and hasn't had a dummy since.

I snipped a hole in the test of the dummy so when DS sucked they didn’t sit right in his mouth, he clicked that they weren’t as good to suck on and then I chucked them in the bin a few days later. When he asked for them I just ignored it really and distracted him with kisses. Took a few days before he stopped asking. But all good since.

He isn’t talking at all so I don’t think he will
understand me telling him the dummy is no more. He gets really grumpy and frustrated when the dummy has a hole in then hysterical screaming. Maybe I should try in 6 months or so to take it off him, explain to him and hopefully he will understand?

My DS was 23 months. I just did the same as PP, cut the dummy so he didn’t like it any more. Said it was broken. He was not happy and we had a few bad nights, but he got over it and by night 3 I’d say it was totally forgotten.

I was surprised how easy it was. My DD must have been around the same age as your son, we just went cold turkey. She still grabbed any dummy she found lying around the house, but otherwise didn't complain about them not being around at bed time.

Watching with interest. My DS is 19 months, he still needs it for sleeping at night and naps. I wasn’t really going to worry about it until he drops his naps. Then hopefully he’ll be old enough to explain that it’s got to go... I was thinking about the dummy fairy visiting or something along those lines

@Pinkblueberry that’s what I was going to do next year, the dummy fairy, but looks like I’m just going to have to go cold turkey with him a lot sooner than expected. I haven’t bought anymore dummies so once this one has a hole in then that’s it!