dummies??

S. - posted on 04/04/2012

The teddy thing did cost me £10 of eBay there super cute but a bit expensive if your planning to get rid any way, you could try the "dummy fairy" were she leaves it to a fairy and gets a gift in place, if she crys for her dodo you just have to say "no the fairies have it"

My sisters both had there son's give there dummies to other babies (or so the boys thought) and my mum stopped cleaning mine till it went all sticky and then said "yuck quick put it in the bin" then when I asked she said "you put it in the bin it's dirty"

I think however you do it you just need to stick to it, even thou she's cute and asks for her dodo or screams the house down, I think most kids forget by day 3 that they want it. Out of sight out of mind.

Sonya - posted on 04/04/2012

thanks stacey :D yea my lil one went of her bottles no problem :) but she seemed to get more attacted to the dummy then so was worrying if it'll maybe be harder now :O but i have been tryin to keep them out of sight but its harder now as she knows we all call them dodo's so she does ask for her dodo i mite even try gettin one them teddy dummys as it mite be as you say more of a hassle that she wont even want it after a while :) x

S. - posted on 04/04/2012

Each Childs is different were it comes to dummies my oldest was really attached to her's, I had managed to limit her to night times only at 18 months old and then I lost it one night she had to go without it and wasn't happy one bit! the 2nd night I found it but I thought since we managed one night I wasn't going back, by the 3rd night she just went to bed no fuss.

My 2nd child didn't really take to a dummy.

My 3rd had a wubbanub ( a dummy with a teddy attached) it was fab, when she learnt to crawl at 7 months the teddy would pull the dummy out of her mouth, in the end it was more hassle to her as it wouldn't keep in and she just stopped bothering with it.

I got rid of my 17 month old daughters bottles by just binning them, it took her one night to get over it, they easily forget about things if you don't offer things to them.

I personaly don't really like to see children of two with dummies and my friends son was nearly 3 years old fall over with it in and ended up having to have both front teeth removed.

Sonya - posted on 04/04/2012

o yea forgot ta say my lil one is 20 months now :O yea all de nurses kept givin er one which i didnt think was right because if i wanted my baby to have a dummy i would of had my own one there and give it to her n she had to stay in for a week so it jus seemed harder to take it away i was thinking it would of been easier to wait till i can explain why she has to give it up but shes walkin now and i dont want her walkin around wit one :/ but thanks brittney for the advice :D x

Brittney - posted on 04/04/2012

I never gave my daughter one, the hospital insisted that she would need one. Threw it away. If you did use one from birth, I would say take it away by 4-6 months, the earlier the better. Just take it slowly, 'forget it' and soothe the baby in a different way: rocking, cuddling, letting them suck on your finger, bouncing...etc...they don't have a large memory capacity at that age and they will forget it quickly.