22 month old chewing through dummies

[icantdothis2017]

My daughter has had a dummy for every sleep since a couple months old

How ever she has started to chew through them and I am worried as it's leaving holes and one teat has even fallen of all together which is a choking hazard .
However without them she cries and I can't bear hearing her cry to sleep .
She won't be cuddled to sleep despite trying and she won't Co sleep . She takes no comfort from me being there and cries harder if I am.
What do I do ? I can't risk her choking but I don't want her to cry to sleep

Both my dc's has dummies no problems with there teeth. Hopefully it's just a phase whilst she's getting more teeth.

I don’t think she’d understand the dummy fairy tbh. Her speech is not great. She only has 7 ish words.

A dummy stops your child developing the muscles it needs for talking so often causes delayed speech.

Has she cut her molars yet?

This could just be a short term phase as she's cutting teeth. Molars cutting are a million times worse than the others cutting.

She's got 18/20 teeth .
She has the 1st year molars at 13 months and has stated to get the 2nd year ones.
Early teether

I tried chewing a dummy and I couldn't 😂 goodness knows how she does it

It could be second molars cutting then. I assume she hasn't always been chewing dummies like this?

Try giving her loads if things to teeth on in the daytime - cold and hard stuff to encourage her to chew (Google for some good ideas). Maybe she'll get all her chewing out of the way in awake time, if you encourage it?

It is very, very difficult to bite through a new dummy (although easier when older and the latex is softer). So if she's biting through it in a few days, there has got to be something wrong. Because that takes some hard-core dedicated biting for such a little one.

She has the 1st year molars at 13 months and has stated to get the 2nd year ones.
Early teether

DD2 had 20/20 teeth by 15 months

I would also wonder why she needs to chew so much and would consider seeing an osteopath..

Also I like the suggestion of swapping the dummy for something else. What about this... www.amazon.co.uk/Nuby-Teething-Blankie-Styles-Vary/dp/B002KMK1Y6/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1_a_it?keywords=blanket+with+teething+corner&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1512248358&sr=8-1-fkmr1

My DS used to suck the ears of his teddy when I took his dummy away.

22 months is too old.
Take the dummies away before she chokes. You can't have any clearer sign that it's time.

I sympathise but you need to get rid. You’d never forgive yourself if she choked in the night, which is a real possibility. There are some quite good tips online for getting rid of the dummy xx

I agree ditch the dummy. It may be a hard couple of days but they adjust so quickly. Replace with a toy or blanket or muslin or something. Then no more dummies to buy ever and no risk.

Well I didn't give the dummy last night .
She settled about 8pm.
Slept until 1am. Had a two minute cry and slept till 8am.

Thanks all.
Fate yes she is definitely teething . Can see the tooth cutting. I may buy her one of those nuby blankets . She does have a sleepytot but without the dummies now

Well done OP long may it continue :) my DD still has her dummy at night at 28 months so time I listened to my own advice haha x

well done, both of you!!

Great result well done OP.

We have just got rid of DS’s dummy a couple of weeks ago - he is about the same age as your DD at 21 months. It was hard for 3 days - I posted on here about it - but after that he was over it and his sleep has improved loads - he was waking 2-4 times a night looking for it, now he’s sleeping through most nights which is sooo welcome!

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That is encouraging thanks :)
I felt like she was to young for Me to take it away

If you've got teeth you probably don't need a dummy!

Huh ?

@icantdothis2017 can I ask how this has gone for you this last week? Exact same problem with DD chewing through dummies. So I’ve had to remove them as I’m not willing to take this risk and can’t be buying new ones every few days. Only on day 2 and She’s been going to sleep fine but waking once a night really upset, crying hysterically and wanting cuddles. I’ve obviously been comforting her and helping her back to sleep but wondered how many nights I can expect it to last. Also worried I will become a replacement dummy! Thanks

It went fine tbh .
We've been so lucky .
We've had wakes up but she puts her self back to sleep .
Slept through the last few nights

That’s good to hear, thank you. There is hope for us yet!