Just sharing my experience

Jessi - posted on 07/10/2011

i just stopped offering it to my daughter thoughout the day. if she asked for it i would give it but as soon as it was set down i picked it up and kept it out of sight. then i only gave it to her at night. she didnt even miss it during the day. and eventually to break the night time use i let her have it to fall asleep and as soon as she fell asleep i took it, she never noticed it missing. and she started to get used to sleeping without it so i only offered it to fall asleep every other night and just quit after a few days. she didnt even notice it was gone. hope it helps

Boni - posted on 02/06/2011

if your getting yr baby off it at a young age id suggest only having at night time then slowly stop

Jennifer - posted on 11/03/2009

Here I will post 2 stories.

1. My husband had a pacy. when he was about 2/3 his mom and him made a concious decision to go in the back yard(in the fall before snow hit) and plant the pacy to grow a pacy tree(did not mark the area). If the pacy tree grew, he could have all the pacy's he wanted. well winter came and went and he never even asked if it grew. completely forgot about it.



2. my two gals had plugs (pacifiers) AND blankets. i didn't want my oldest to have hers forever, but having the second baby, i needed to keep them both quiet and keep the jelousy down. So here I was with a 4 year old and a 2 year old with plugs and blankies! every where we went! i got it to only when you are in the car or at home. so that helped the embarresment of my 4 year old with a plug in the store! ANYWAY, i decided to try the planting idea. We were going to plant them where the daffodils gow in the spring. it is fall right now and planting plug flowers is a good idea! so i took them all, hid them and kept saying we gotta get dirt, and they are soaking in the the "pre-planting soil". lol. i was asked a few times about them by the oldest. but i kept ignoring the subject and now it has been 2 weeks and no plugs and no questions. they sleep thru the night. and the other good part is that they are starting to forget their blankies exccept at night time/sleep time. and even then they don't HAVE to have them anymore!



just thought i'd share. so one mom may be able to help another mom!!!

Becky - posted on 09/13/2009

I will have to share my 'giving it up' tale. My son was super attached to his binky, he used it as his security blanket. When it was time to give it up, we made up a story about a little boy on the moon who didn't have a binky but needed one. I asked my son if he could give his binky to the boy, and he said yes. So, we hyped it up for about a week. When the day came, I went to the grocery store and bought some helium filled balloons (you will need about 3), and I bought a separate Thomas the Tank Engine balloon, because that was my son's favorite character. I tied a toy on the Thomas balloon and hid it from my son. Then we tied the binky onto the 3 balloons and when the moon came out, my son let it go. While he was preoccupied, I got the Thomas balloon out and made it look like the boy one the moon sent him a toy as a "thank you". My son never cried once, and never asked for his binky either.