Help! Dummy advice

Victoria - posted on 01/20/2010

you should definitely wean her off them, i was lucky with my son, hes nearly 11 months old now, and he stopped being interested in dummies by about 4 months old.

Michelle - posted on 01/19/2010

Georgina and Fern have great advice. Just let her have the dummies at nap time. Who cares if they are blue lol. Girls can have blue! I started to wean my daughter off her dummy at around 18months. It was pretty easy at this stage. We started by giving it to her only at nap times. You have to be strict with it but you also have to find something else to keep her attention on. I had to take my daughter for walks alot more as this was one way shed forget about having her dummy. She finally stopped having her dummy at all, at 22 months. its fantastic. Shes talking more and doesnt wake up in the night when that dam dummy falls out her mouth lol.

Fern - posted on 12/23/2009

Our little girl is 14 months. She used to use that dummy you wrote about, then we changed to a pink dummy from tescos, she took to that well, i think the other dummys were too small for her as she kept dropping them. When she was about a year we decided to stop her from using them in the day, she only uses it when she's having a nap and at bedtime. The first couple of days she was a little whingy but once over that bit she forgot she used to have them and now it's something she looks forward to and associates with sleep.
Like with all babies if you make changes when their young enough there memory is short so will soon forget.
Hope you get on well and Merry Christmas to you xx
Fern

Katie - posted on 11/03/2009

my 20 month old still has his dummy and its affected his teeth, he is totally addicted to his dummies he walks around wih one in his mouth and one in each hand. Have no idea how to ween him off it i try to take it away but he just sucks on his fingers instead and i hate that. dnt no wat to do

Lolas - posted on 10/24/2009

The best advice i was given was to take your time getting your daughters dummy and each time she wants it make her wait just a little longer,if this works she will eventually forget she wanted it. Also if this doesnt work,for older children maybe only have one(4 of the same colour to you though as they dont know this and will think there all the same dummy),next time u go on a bus or train etc tell her u left it there and dummy wont be coming back,this worked for my brother as he didnt know mummy can buy another!!

Louise - posted on 08/26/2009

my eldest son had a dummy up untill just before his first birthday. i decided to take it off him as i didnt want to have a child at 3-4 still walking round with a dummy, as it can affect speach etc. so one day while he was playing i waited for him to put it down, when he had done so and was playing i picked it up without him knowing and put it on a shelf out of sight. he looked for it and when he couldn't find it he carried on playing. now don't get me wrong for a week or so after there were times i wanted to give it him back.. but i knew if i did i'd never get it away from him.. but since that day he's not had a dummy and to be fair it wasn't that much of a hassle. i'm so glad that i did it when i did. cause trying to do it now would be a nightmare. hope this helps u come to a decision.

Angelique - posted on 07/11/2009

If she really wants a dummy, she will find one to suit her, there are different shaped teets on the ends. Mine didn't like a certain style of dummy but if there was no other option available they took it. As to weaning her off it, remember it is like a comfort blanket, try not to take a dummy out of the house once she hits one, and if, like mine who is now 3 still wants to use it, don't let her leave the bedroom with it. It's the only room she can use one.

Gayle - posted on 07/07/2009

Ween baby now. It really is for the best. Both my children had them and I left it too late with both of them. They were both three. My son was great he just put them all in the bin and was done with them, but my daughter was awful. My ex started just putting them in the bin and telling her she was naughty! She started hiding them. It was really rough. Then my Mum tried to help by telling her to suck her thumb cos daddy couldn't put it in the bin. So now I have an 8 year old who is as bad as a nicotine addict trying to get her off her thumb. Keeping it for bed time and then just gently removing it when baby is sound is probably best in the long run.

Georgina - posted on 06/24/2009

i had the same problem with my lil girl i tryed every dummy there is and she didn't like any of them. i now only let her have her tommee tippee dummies when she goes to sleep and she's fine with it so maybe you could try that. if she still wants a dummy during the day then try the mam dummies there are some with ridges on the bit that they suck and my lil girl likes them she has them when she's in her pushchair as theres a dummy saver that ya can get to go with them that is good and she can't pull it off like alot of the other ones.

Catherine - posted on 06/12/2009

my 18 month old discarded his dummy at about 10 months of his own accord which made life easy, but my 8 month old clings to his for dear life.keep the blue ones for at home when it doesn't matter but if she doen't like any others then try tescos, my friend used closer to nature botles and dummies and found her son took the tescos own brand ones fine. we use mam and they're pretty good, all depends on your little lady.

Wendy - posted on 06/12/2009

Maybe you should wean her off it. I did with my son when he was 18 months, should have done it earlier really as it's better for their developing teeth. But it came about by chance. He woke up and had bitten through his dummy so I told him to throw it in the bin - which he happily did, I didn't have any more so I thought, that's it - no more dummy. Then everytime he wanted it I said "it's in the bin!" and he accepeted that. Although we had a couple of nights where he was difficult to settle, he was OK. He behaved a bit like a person giving up cigarettes! Got irritable when tired and had a shorter temper because he didn't know how to settle himself without a dummy and wanted to eat more! I'd say it took 2 weeks before he was back to normal, though the night-time was fine after 2 days, it was when we went out with the buggy that he found it difficult. It's not easy, but I'd say it was much easier then I thought it would be. Definately will be easier to lose it now then when she is older. Good luck!

Sarah - posted on 06/10/2009

My friend uses exactly the same one that's been discontinued! (Luckily i use Avent one's so i have no problem lol). I would probably start to wean now although if you do have problems then i know my friend has been able to find new one's on eBay to keep her LO happy. If not, spend tonnes of money desperately finding another dummy she might be happy with. It may be if she refuses all the other's she might finally decide to give up altogether! Good luck anyway xx

Xena - posted on 06/10/2009

neither of my children used dummies, but i would advise trying to wean her now as it will become harder to do as she gets older, try using a favourite toy to replace the dummy gradually!

Trish - posted on 05/20/2009

well neither of my 2 ever used dummies but i do know it's best to ween them of dummies before 1 if possible is a lot easier to ween them of at this age than when they 3.I would just take it away possibly starting of daytime only and give her 1 on a night till she gets more used to it give her other toys to settle her possibly buy a special teddy to comfot her instead.