Getting rid of the dummy

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DD is 21 months and uses a dummy at night - after bath time she screams for it, its definitely an association. At nursery all day she doesn't use it at all, even sees other babies/toddlers with one but won't ask for theirs.

I know we just have to change the pattern and get through a few tough nights saying no - any tips on how to start this?

We had our first free dummy day and night yesterday. We had been to the dentist the day before and she said he had an over bite and did he have a dummy? We knew then it had to go so yesterday evening when he was screaming for it we explained they had gone to a new baby and we took him to the shop for him to choose a toy and that's it not been mentioned again

I hated the idea of just taking it away so I sneakily cut a hole in it and left it in his cot as normal (he only ever had it in bed). He put it in his mouth immediately took it out and said ‘dummy broken’ I played along about how ‘oh no we don’t have anymore you’ll have to try and go to sleep without it’ and he did! 😬 We’ve had a few conversations since where he has brought up that ‘dummy is gone’ but on the whole it was fairly painfree! Good luck!