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Removing dummy 22 months

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meangal · 05/02/2025 07:39

My demanding toddler has always loved his dummy, and without it can't sleep, cries in the pram and cries in the car. He's pretty hard also asks for it at other times of the day but we only give if he's being particularly hard work.

In the last few days he has seemingly started chewing through them, so it's forcing our hand to get rid.

Just want a solidarity thread really! Dreading this!

(Please no judgey posts about dummy use until now, we're all just doing our best 😂)

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CoffeeFluff · 05/02/2025 07:40

we were absolutely DREADING this. Went cold turkey, he cried for two days. Then he never looked back. Go for it!

meangal · 05/02/2025 07:41

CoffeeFluff · 05/02/2025 07:40

we were absolutely DREADING this. Went cold turkey, he cried for two days. Then he never looked back. Go for it!

This is what I need to hear 😂 thank you! How was the sleep?

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StampOnTheGround · 05/02/2025 07:44

Dummies in the day time, I just looked at him happily playing with it in when he was around 10 months and thought how unnecessary, so took it off him and never gave it back 😂

Nighttime/nap dummies were about a year after that, so 22 months! We just made a new bedtime routine that he loved, he did ask for it but was fine, he asked again the next night with a little cry but again was fine. It was so so so much easier than I thought it was going to be!

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