Comments on: Pacifier Weaning – Easy Ways to Help Your Child Give Up the Soother

By: Joanna Heng

Joanna Heng — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:23:44 +0000

Very useful tips!! Thanks for sharing.

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:40:49 +0000

In reply to Addy Brown. I never wanted to use pacifier because I saw my sisters struggle with getting it rid of her baby. But my doctor said about this SIDS so of course binky became my best friend for 18 months.

By: Addy Brown

Addy Brown — Tue, 15 May 2018 16:06:51 +0000

Pacifiers can help prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), so it’s important to allow your baby to use one if she likes until she’s six months old, when the risk of SIDS greatly diminishes.

By: happyhooligans

happyhooligans — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:36:39 +0000

In reply to Karon Ratledge. Watch for your question on my Facebook page on July 3 at 730am EST, Karon!

By: Karon Ratledge

Karon Ratledge — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 13:07:32 +0000

my grandkids ages 4,5,&6 are still allowed to have pacifiers. What to do?

By: Marianne Cysouw

Marianne Cysouw — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:57:52 +0000

I enjoyed the article and I love how you support keeping a pacifier long. I loved how easy it was to console my mini when he was upset and I feel that every child has some right to that kind of consolation.

However, when you do feel that it is time to give them up, you have to be in there a 100%. I was amazed by how easily my mini gave the pacifiers up. I think it has to do with the very real concern about his teeth that I felt at that time. I was completely convinced that we could not go on with a pacifier for one extra day and asked him to stop cold-turkey with them. I told him that his teeth were the reason for him having to give it up. He instantly got real concerned as well and gave it up. It was funny to see how he corrected himself when asking after it in the week after giving them up.

By: Marilyn Koster

Marilyn Koster — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:57:49 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed the article and many suggestions from you and your readers. I have some additional ones to add.
Let me begin by saying I’m a Speech Pathologist with over 45 years of experience and my son, whom I will reference shortly, is a Speech Pathologist as well who has spent virtually his entire career in working with Early Intervention/Birth to Three. This is a topic that both of us are well acquainted with.

First, and I think this is very important, the studies do show that using the pacifier, once the child has developed the ability to suck, reduces the incidence of SIDS. And this is generally thought to be important through the first six months of life. However, after that time using the pacifier can contribute to ear infections as well as delays in appropriate articulation.

It should also be noted that once the child has reached the age of 24 months the issues of giving up the pacifier increase. That being said I would suggest that, if you have chosen to give the child the pacifier, that you look at removing it shortly after the child turns one.

As has been indicated in the article as well as comments, the first few days might be really tough but hang in there. If you give in to your child’s “demands” at this time, you’ll likely be giving in to the demands for years to come and not just for the pacifier.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 21:33:29 +0000

We didn’t think we’d get them away from my 3 g-kids who were addicted to them. But they went cold turkey with no problems, We were amazed? We told them to turn them in “The Pacy Fairy” was coming to collect them for new babies who needed them more and they all turned them in!

By: Donna M

Donna M — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:34:35 +0000

My friend would snip off a little piece at the end of the pacifier. Her 3 year old daughter would still suck on it. A day or two later she would snip off a little more until by the end of a week or two there was not enough nipple for her daughter to be able to keep it in her mouth. After several unsuccessful attempts to use it, her daughter gave it up on her own.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 08:38:17 +0000

we used something here in the UK called stop n grow. It’s to stop people biting nails and has a really bitter taste. I told him for a week before that the dummy fairy was going to come and put. Spell in his dummies on a certain day. The spell would make them taste horrible. I sneaked into nursery at pick up time and put a tiny dot on all of them and popped them in his tray. Immediately he saw me he went for his dummies put one in his mouth and started to pull a face. The part that was not part of the plan was he vomited on the floor as he really didn’t like the taste. But he has never asked for a dummy since so although that moment was a little hairy, he was dummy free instantly.

My other child was easier, we had a wee ceremony and buried them in the garden and he got a gift from the dummy fairy. That worked a treat for him!