Getting rid of dummy

[hoomaeyy]

My (just turned) 2 year old is obsessed with her dummy.

We stopped giving it in the day and limited it to naps but then she would pretend she needed a nap in the day just to have it! She got chicken pox and was poorly and kept asking for her dummy so we felt a bit horrible not allowing her but now...We have clearly created a rod for our own backs.

She will not go without it. She is quite a umm "vocal" baby in that she cries and "whinges" quite a lot in general so I'm scared to go cold Turkey but I don't really see another option? Has anyone managed to do with with a slightly crazy baby? She is going to scream and cry for days. Any tips on how to soften the blow?

I did it with my 2 1/2 year old daughter at Easter, I told her that tiny babies needed them now she was a big girl. Nights were hard for the first few days, I had to cuddle her to sleep, the first night took 2 hours. I made sure day time naps were in the car which helped her fall asleep. Have her a big girl teddy, which has hasn’t bothered with. After 5ish days she hasn’t mentioned it.
hard going but worth it

I was so worried about this and it turned out to be so easy. She only had it at bed time so all I did was cut the teat off completely and said it was broken. She then just held it for a few nights until she forgot about it. Don't get me wrong she asked for it a few times and the first 3 nights were crap but it was way better than I every imagined.

We have ours to the Easter bunny in return for a lovely egg.

i explained if you left it for the bunny she would get a fantastic egg but would not have a dummy again. Sort of let her make her own decision (with lots of manipulation 😁). She didn’t ask for it once! I couldn’t believe it, she was addicted to it.

why don’t you do the same with the fairies? They could leave her a present…

We had a visit from the “dummy fairy”! We hung DD’s dummy (actually a few of them!) on a tree outside. In the morning the dummy fairy had taken them and left her a ballet outfit for her baby ballet class which she’d wanted for a while. She was 3, so a little older but totally bought into it.
Although hilariously she asked to stop at Tesco on the way to baby ballet that day to buy another dummy! I told her that the magic would mean that if we bought more, the ballet outfit might disappear. No more dummy. Shameful that I resorted to bribery but it worked!

My son was just turned 3. We gave it to Santa in early December to give to new babies who had just been born (a friend had had a December baby so he understood the concept).

I took the dummies to work and left them in my draw so I couldn’t just get them out of the going got tough one night!

he was over it in 2 days

Cut the end of all of them. They won't feel the same anymore

Went cold turkey on their first birthday. Made a hugh fuss first couple of days but soon forget about it. You just need to stay strong.

I’m trying this atm,
only has it for bed time but no he’s screaming “nummy” when he wants it and then he’s been hiding them in the morning so he can find it during the day.
so crafty!

My mate used a screwdriver through the teats on all my dds dummies
shed discover it was ‘broken’ and bin it
this took weeks,as she seemed to have an endless supply of them
finally we got to the last one-and she never asked again

the same mates sister had a baby when her dd was about the same age and they wrapped them up and gave them as a gift for the new baby

the most important thing is not to cave-and that’s the hard bit-or they’ll learn that all they have to do is push enough and they’ll get it back

We had the same period. My daughter sucked on a pacifier until she was 2, and it was hard for us to stop. It was all about personalized dummy clips. She loved those bears. She loved to play with this. We just took and hid the pacifier. Our daughter searched for a pacifier for several days but did not cry. It was amazing. We pretended to help her look for it and couldn't find it. So after a few days, she just forgot about it and switched her attention. So I think you should not worry too much about this and experience pangs of conscience. Just try to switch your child's attention to something else.

The method we have used with 1 year old. She always used to go for night or nappy sleep with her dummy. But one day she cut here dummy with her tooth and my husband peeled away the rubber so only plastic bit with the loop left. Funny and surprising thing left that our little one wanted to keep it with her and never released from her hands even knowing that she can't hold it in her mouth anymore but was trying to lol. And one day she left it in my drawer and forgot about it. So the pacifier is still in my drawer and she never used it again since she was 1.5 years old. By the way we always used pacifier clip holder to keep it clean and that is a life saver, we bought it from this shop ciulptuko laikiklis when we travelled to Lithuania but I believe you can get in any country. Good luck trying to deal with you little one, think there are many ways how to do this ;)

It might not be as bad as you think. My dd was similar and I was dreading the day of giving them up for months. Talked about it endlessly with my DH. But when we did it, it was nothing really. I explained the dummy fairy would come and take them away in exchange for a gift. She requested a biscuit. A few minutes of crying on the first night and that it really. I'm almost upset that she gave up practically her favourite thing in life for one biscuit.... She'd probably give up me for 2 biscuits!

We had to stop as he would rub it on his hair and pull the hair out! He was getting a bald patch. He only had it for sleep, or when poorly, but we just told him the dummy fairy was taking it. Had a couple of nights of winging, but nothing horrendous.
I think you just have to go cold turkey and take it away. She'll soon get used to not having it. At that age, she'll probably forget pretty quickly that she even had one!