My little boy has used a dummy at nap time and bedtime since he was about four months old. It started as we co slept, and he would go to sleep sucking my little finger. This got rather inconvenient, so the dummy was deployed.
Fast forward to 2.5 years old and he was still using it at bedtime and nap time, untill yesterday. I thought would post what I have done, and hopefully if I start to bend under pressure can help me keep it up.
Yesterday after his afternoon nap I took him out on his balance bike, while he was faffing with his hat I put a hole in the dummy he had put on the stairs with 'cuskie' his comforter. On return from the bike ride he bobbed it in his mouth and declared it broken. A request was made to fix it, or to swap it. He tried looking in his bed for a dummy to swap it with, only to find these ones were 'broken' too. Wonder how that happened?
At bedtime he went to bed ok, put he broken dummies in the corner of his bed, and then tried to go to sleep. He didn't cry, he just kept getting up, looking forlorn and requesting a song.
He went to sleep at 9.00 with no dummy.
In the morning he told his daddy he was a big boy, and dummies are for babies. I have taken him to town and got him a 'big boy' present.
Some requests have been made at nap time for the dummy, I offered him a broken one again. He cried a bit and went to sleep in his buggy anyway.
He's asleep now.... I am really hoping bedtime goes ok.
Anyone else broken the dummies like this and had success? Or is it all going to blow up in my face in a couple of days time?