How to wean your baby off a dummy/pacifier?

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I want to wean my 5 month old off her dummy, most of the advice out there is about older babies and suggests replacing a dummy with a new comforter such as a soft toy but since she’s so young I feel like this wouldn’t work and is a SIDS risk. Advice also says that young babies get used to change very quickly, I’m just wondering if anyone has any advice or experience with this? I know it’ll probably be a weeks worth of sleepless nights but any help is appreciated!

Why do you feel you need to take a comfort thing off your 5 month old? Rather than trying to replace it with something that may be dangerous why not just let her keep her dummy?🤷

If it’s not causing issues and makes life easy for you, I would be inclined to just leave it. If it’s causing problems, you just take it away. With an older child, I would explain what’s happening and be there to soothe them to sleep, but a 5 month old doesn’t understand, so you just take it away if that’s what you want to do. 5 months moving into 6 months is often a really bad time for sleep, so I might not be inclined to rock the boat too much right now.

I’d wait until after 6 months at least. If nothing else it’s protective against SIDS I believe.

Cold turkey is probably the quickest way to go. Just figure out what you want her sleep cues to be first.

Don't take it off her.