Throw Away the Pacifiers

My son carries his "binky" with him everywhere, he had to have a pacifier for naps and bedtime as well.

I am just imagining the battle when we say no more and the pacifiers have to go. I am not sure why we ever started using one in the first place.

Don't blame yourself for using one when he was a baby. Some babies need the comfort of sucking on a pacifier.

When it was time, in my opinion, to take away my daughter's pacifier I just gradually started throwing them away. If I found one laying around I would put it out of site. I found that my daughter tended to use them more because she saw it than because she wanted it.

Eventually we were down to one and I picked a time when I had a few days off so if I lost some sleep over it I could handle it easier. Bed time was tough for a day or two and then she was weaned.

I just weaned my son cold turkey. I was going through his clothes and commenting that some were too small and he was getting so big and grown up. Then I gathered up the pacifiers and said you are even too big for these now and that was it.

To my surprise I didn't have a problem, he just accepted it.

Don't make the mistake I did, I waited too long to wean my daughter and then we had another baby. We really struggled with getting rid of the pacifier then because she would see her baby sister had one.

I should have made sure she was weaned before the baby was born.

Good thoughts,I am expecting again and I never even thought about that.