How to wean a child from a pacifier?

Hello, my friend, it is better to use flavorings with a bitter aftertaste. The more you obsess over the pacifier, your child will notice this and it will be harder to get the pacifier. Those who are children of the same age who do not have pacifiers, you will get the best results

Weaning your baby requires a gradual, gentle, calm and gentle weaning process. I am not in favor of making up stories, but telling the truth to the child.

1. Step 1 The pacifier disappears when visiting other children
2. Step 2 The pacifier disappears outside
3. Step 3 The pacifier disappears for an increasing amount of time in the house
4. Step 4 The pacifier disappears when falling asleep.
5. Step 5 The pacifier disappears in other stressful situations (doctor, dentist, vaccination, hospital, etc.)

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With a full bedtime massage, after just two weeks, around 40% of babies fell asleep during a full massage without a pacifier in their mouth.

As you can see from the presented examples, it is important to distract the child's attention from the topic. If someone does not want to use massage, then reading before bedtime, cuddling, stroking, praising will be a very recommended approach. I recommend replacing the dragon at the step, e.g.

You can also organize a farewell party for the dummy and send the dummy (by letter, balloon, etc., e.g. to grandma, to another baby), you can also use the beginning of a cold in a child with a strong runny nose to soothe the dummy, because a stuffed nose makes it impossible to suck the dummy.

It can also be pierced, a broken pacifier will not fulfill its role, so the child can conclude that it is no longer needed.

There is hope that the whole process will go without hysteria, which I wish very much.

Gradually reduce pacifier use: Over time, gradually reduce the amount of time your child is allowed to use their pacifier. For example, reduce it from two hours to one hour, then to 30 minutes.

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I'll console you, it's obviously not just your problem, lots of parents go through the exact same thing. It's easy to say, but in retrospect the best solution would have been never to give him that pacifier or to take it at a younger age when the baby doesn't understand so much. But we are here and now and something needs to be done, so I will give you some tips, try them out and hope that one of them turns out to be a hit.

First of all, the first step to getting rid of the pacifier in our child is to limit or completely abandon it during the day and use it only at night or generally during sleep. You write that this has already been achieved and it is really very well done hard work, so bravo mom! So let's focus on how to get rid of it completely.

First - try to talk a lot with your son about the fact that he is a big boy and the pacifier is for babies, that he will have to say goodbye, etc. You can even play him some educational fairy tale, thanks to which he will see that someone else also had a pacifier but he gave it back and that's good. That way, maybe he won't be afraid to do it. Offer him something in return, i.e. throw the pacifier in the trash, and you will get a gift for a big boy. He can choose it himself or you can take the pacifier at night, leave a gift and say that the pacifier fairy took it and left him a surprise. Or let him give it to someone who needs it more, and that someone will give him a gift in return.

The most common methods used by parents are to pierce the pacifier or just give it to someone else. You write that the hole in the pacifier did not help, so we leave this thread, let's focus on returning the pacifier. There are lots of scenarios here. However, it is important to talk beforehand and only then implement one of them.

You can, for example, go for a walk, and when the young one sees a small crying child, you agree that he will give him his pacifier. Or little mice, birds, worms, etc., or anyone, as long as they know that someone needs this pacifier more than him because it is smaller. After this conversation, you can give it to someone together or take it at night and say that the mice came for it at night.

Another very well-known way to wean from the pacifier (as well as from the breast) is to put something on it that the baby won't like. It can be mustard, vinegar, salt, anything that will make the pacifier associated with something distasteful and unpleasant.

There is also such a nice book "Papa Pacifier", so you should consider buying it as well. Also look for the song "My pacifier" on YouTube, there is a good chance that it will go to the child. If a child sees the illustrations with his own eyes and listens to a fairy tale or song, it will be more believable and, above all, illustrated.

If you successfully use any of the above methods, but the youngster will have a moment of doubt, it is very important to be consistent on your part not to give it back to him! It will certainly not be easy and you will cry a lot, but in such a difficult moment, hug him, offer something in return (maybe a favorite toy, mascot, blanket or diaper) and calmly remind him that he does not have a pacifier and why it happened. For example, "the pacifier is gone because the little mice took it, but they left you a red car, so we can play with it."

Of course, it won't be easy, let's not delude ourselves. However, consistency on your part is the only way to success here. If you throw away or give back the pacifier, and under the influence of crying or even hysterics of the child you bend over and give it back to him, you will automatically teach him that it was not serious and that it is not true that the mice or the garbage truck took him. If you decide to do something like this, you have to be adamant and persevere in it until the end. Good luck!