Dummies- I need a bit of a cheer on please!

[Justanothercyster]

So I've set my mind to saying bye bye to the dummies this week with my daughter who is 3 in November. I know she can go without them as she does so at nursery, and when we're out playing, but she's become so obsessed with them.

I'm planning to take her to Build a Bear this week to put her dummies in and say bye bye, and in return she's got a lovely stuffed toy she chose to cuddle at night.

But I'm so scared! I feel awful as I'm taking away her comfort, but also I can't keep asking her to take her dummy out because she's dribbling it because I can't hear what she's saying. I figure the longer I leave it the harder it will be. I know I'll probably lose some sleep 🙈 which is hard as I also have an 8 month old!

Please can I hear stories of when the "dummy fairy" or similar happened. I just need a bit of a hand hold 😂

Mine has only had it for sleeps since she was 18 months and is three in September - a week ago the dummy fairy came. We got a book off Amazon called Bea gives up her dummy. We read it a few times and she was well up for the dummy fairy to come.
I was so nervous to do it because she was dummy obsessed. It's certainly made bedtimes longer, just because the soothing action of sucking has been taken away but she's dealt with it surprisingly well.
We got her a replacement toy but she hates it 😂

I think my boy was about 2 and I told him that next week the dummies have to go back to the shop for the babies. He was totally fine when I removed them all and never asked again. He only had them at night anyway and if they fell out he didn't always bother to put them back so he wasn't a big user. Good luck, I thought it was going to be horrible but he was great about it, it helped he was older and understood.

We hung it on the Christmas tree for the elves to take when DS1 was 2.3. Never asked for it again! DS2 is 19 months and the dummy doesn’t leave the cot.

Apparently when I was a toddler my mum said ‘take the dirty dummy out’ whilst we were in the car and I launched it out the window 😂

Kids adapt so fast! Especially if she’s going long periods of time without it. Distract distract distract. Good luck!

I was so worried about my two (they were 2.5 and just over 1), one night I took nearly all of them and broke the last few by cutting the tops off completely. Acted as confused as the kids! Within 2 days they never asked again, my eldest was an addict and when he found an old one put it in to play then threw it in the bin himself

Thank you ladies, you did give me some confidence and I just went for it, and she was bloody amazing with it!

We took her to Build a Bear where she chose a stuffed toy, and she put them all in it (I was actually expecting her to full on refuse lol). And that day and the next she asked for her dummy a couple times, probably out of habit, but then was absolutely fine. I was dreading the first night but she went down and we didn't hear a peep!

It's a week on and I'm just so proud.

My only issue is, tantrums! Obviously she was using her dummy to calm herself down, but now that's gone they've just lasted ages and ages. We've tried everything, hugs, distractions, cuddle toys, a chewy stickman, screen time even! Any advice is welcome