I swore to myself that I'd cut the paci at 6 months...then at 12 months. So here we are at 13 months and I really really don't want to deal with it at 2 years old when he's much more aware of what he wants. My issue is that he has always been a 25 minute napper. Always. These last couple months, he finds his paci again and goes to sleep for another half hour. That's huge for me! Need that time. I'm scared if I take it away, we go back to 25 minute naps. He only uses it to fall asleep. He never gets up in the middle of the night for it. Wwyd? Take it away or let him be for now? And if so, for how much longer?
TJ only in the crib. Never out of the crib. But as soon as I put him in, he looks for it. He's been putting himself to sleep, wide awake, since he was about 3 months. Sleeping through the night since 7 weeks. I'm terrified of messing anything up.
Post by karabear4409 on Jan 24, 2015 13:53:09 GMT -5
No advice, but I'm interested to see what BTDT moms have to say. I've been wondering this myself. I've always said that the paci has to go at 12 months.... R will be 10 months in a couple of days. He only take it at nap time, but it is the only way that I can get him down. So, I am terrified of letting it go. So, I can commiserate.
I don't have any advice because like you I was planning on taking it away at 12 months but here we are at 2 and he still has it ?. My issue has been that I commute to work part time and I leave pretty early. My drive just to my MIL house to drop him off is 45-60 min. And let me tell you that car ride is way less stressful for me while in traffic if I give it to him. I tried taking it away once but I gave in. Interested to see what the other moms advice is. Good luck either way!
We just took Sophie's away a month ago? So she was 22 months. She was also super attached to hers for sleep (would sometimes wake up, find it and go back to sleep). The upside to taking it away later is they can understand more. 3 days before we stopped giving it to her i started explaining before naps and bed that binkies are for babies and that she is a big girl. We also told her that binky was going bye bye soon. The morning of i had her throw it out (just one...i threw out the others). She didn't care then. She cared at naptime and again bedtime.
It was hard and we felt bad about it but once you take it away you can not give it back. So just be sure about your timing. We were lucky and only had 2-3 semi hard days (tears, but asleep within a half hour).
I'm probably the worst person to ask because I didn't take M's away until 3. Lol. But just like ducky it was only 2-3 days of missing it until things went back to normal.
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We did not take it away until 26 months, but now that we have taken it away he now sucks his fingers which is what I was trying to avoid. He never cried about it being taken away though he is the type you have to take about things days in advance of when you do it.
We took it away at 13 months. I wanted to earlier but he had surgery at almost 13 months and I wanted him to have something for comfort during that time.
What helped for us was daycare hadn't been giving it to him for naps since 9-ish months so he was only getting it at bedtime anyway. We just threw them all out one day before we got him from daycare and never looked back. We only had one bad night, but he was not one to wake up in the middle of night searching for it.
We took dd's much loved crib paci away around 26m. It was a bit rough at first... She gave it up bc princesses don't use pacifiers, lol. When she realized it was forever she wasn't happy. After a week of crap naps, things got better and I thought that was it.
A couple weeks later, during a long car ride, she discovered her thumb. Soon she had it in her mouth all. The. Time. And had a very chapped chin from the constant wetness. She also picked up every germ on Earth. I ended up reintroducing (which took a while) the paci bc it was easier to control than the thumb.
I would just pick a couple of weeks where it's not hectic and you are both around and pull it cold turkey. Whenever we have to change something with LO we always do it cold turkey and don't ever back peddle and it works well. However I have a kid that doesn't nap so I would be in heaven if it was just 25 mins a day:)
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Thanks guys. It's looking like it'll be a few bad days but he'll just get used to it. Now to decide when I want those few bad days to be (there's never a good time for it). I appreciate the help!
Ugh... No advice but following cause my 25 monther still has hers. And we used to restrict it to the crib but when DS was born 8 weeks ago we let her have it whenever she wants it. I felt guilty for not spending more time with her so gave in.
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