How did you wean off the soother?

[ThatJadeHam]

As above, any tips. He is just gone two and want to gradually ease him off it.

You mean a dummy? We just took it away.

Mine never had it during the day, nighttime only. So one night it was just gone.

There was about 3 nights of disrupted sleep and asking for it and then it was done. Back to normal.

If you use it all the time, maybe I’d take it away during the day for a week first. If only at night, just get rid of it. We just explained it was gone and we’d have cuddles instead. I cuddled her to sleep, she co-slept with us part of the night anyway, so she woke and came into us and we re-settled her back to sleep. x3 nights and then done.

My granddaughter was 2.5yrs and very attached to her dummy. Actually she’d got more attached to it in the couple of months before they got rid of it because her baby sibling had one. Anyway, one night they collected all the dummies, put them in a gift bag and the dummy fairy came in the night, took the gift bag of dummies to give to other babies and left a gift! Worked a treat, she hasn’t asked for her dummy again.

We also did the dummy fairy. I was skeptical if it would work but it really did. We talked about it a lot for a couple of weeks until my DD actually asked to give them to the fairy. No tears or tantrums or difficult nights. She was a bit older though...I think 2 and a half, maybe nearly 3.