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emmasmommy

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Question for all you mamas with babies who use binky's...


When did you start weaning them from the binky? Madelyn has always been a binky babe. She mainly used it just for when she was tired or when she was upset about something. Lately she wants it a lot more. We've been making her take it out when she talks because it drives me nuts when kids talk around their binky. She is almost 18 months old...and I'm wondering if maybe we should try to start taking it away, except for at naps and bedtime.

Just curious.
 
We just did it with Connor at about that age. Just took it. We never let him use it except for bedtime, and he transitioned just fine.
 
ditto darcenator.. just took it. it went bibi and it never came back lol. He was fine.. you'd be surprised how easily kiddos adapt to changes.
 
My kids were both fairly attached, but at about a year we took it away except nap and bedtime. No problems with it here. I think 18 months is a good time to make the transition.
 
I think Avery was about that old, too. We just left it on her pillow for naps and bed time (although she would go in there sometimes to just have a minute with it and then put it back). It was gone completely by 2-2 1/2 I think...right around the time that we started potty training.

Landon was older. He carried a blanket with all the time (receiving blankets...and usually more than one...and he had the sweetest habit of finding the end of the serger stitching and rubbing it between his finger and thumb to help soothe himself to fall asleep and such). Anyways, he just gave up both of those on his own...around 3, I think (potty training time).

And for what it's worth...neither of my kids had speech or dental issues because of it. Both are super articulate. And it saved us a world of freakouts (yes...I'm a germaphobe, paranoid mother) because neither kid was ever inclined to put stuff in his/her mouth as babies because the binky was there instead.
 
Around 18 months we started doing it only at naps & bedtime, too.

12 months was car, naps, bedtime.
18 months naps, bedtime.
24 months, bedtime.
by two and a few months we cut off the tops and told him they were broken. lol

When you're ready to take it away for good, a friend of mine took her daughter to Build a Bear with one of her pacis. She got to choose any bear and they put it inside. The paci was still with her, but she couldn't suck on it. I thought it was brilliant!
 
My kiddo's teeth came in late, so I let him have it until 2.5 years (which was actually just a few weeks ago) :o... the last year it was only to gnaw on the side that was bothering him (hated any cold teething rings out there)... I started the weaning process about 4 months before he turned 2.5... just at naps and bedtime... then more random... not always at bedtime... not always at nap until he just didn't get it. Of course last week was his first time he was at a play group without me that it must have been so traumatic that he found a pacifier that he must have stashed for emergencies... he came out with it while I was on the phone. I just plucked it out and he didn't fuss... makes me wonder, where he has more hiding... :glare:
 
VERY cute idea Lena!

Thanks for the input gals! I have noticed her chewing it more so that was what actually prompted all this. I think I'm more afraid of change than she is LOL

Poor Emma still has her blankie...I think she'll carry that around until it disintegrates!

Binky-dom was such a foreign place for me. Emma was/is a thumb sucker
 
Emily's only 6 months, but we've already started to think about it. We only let her have it now at naps and bedtime though. She doesn't need it during the day, just when she wants to go to sleep.
 
My oldest was 3...gave it to the garbage man on her 3rd birthday. My youngest was just over 2...we lost both of them one day and didn't find it until after her nap, but we decided to just pretend we never found them and she never needed it since!

My niece on the other hand, was six when her mom finally took it away from her...SIX!! No wonder she has teeth problems!
 
Andrew gave up the binkie when he was 10 months old because he had an ear infection. Dylan, on the other hand, has never taken one at all. I've tried... he doesn't like them. Sorry I'm no help :(
 
emmasmommy said:
VERY cute idea Lena!

Thanks for the input gals! I have noticed her chewing it more so that was what actually prompted all this. I think I'm more afraid of change than she is LOL

Poor Emma still has her blankie...I think she'll carry that around until it disintegrates!

Binky-dom was such a foreign place for me. Emma was/is a thumb sucker
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I think I could have wrote this same exact post! My little guy is almost 18 months and loves to take his paci everywhere with him and then when he's not sucking on it he's chewing on it. It's starting to drive me crazy.
 
that was kinda my thought too Jackie...BUT...she loves books so I may have to totally steal your idea Lena.

Coila, I was really surprised she took to the binky because when she was born, she had sucking blisters on her hand. I thought for sure we'd have another thumb sucker. Plus, when she was little she had LOTS of ear infections. She had tubes put in even. She's just one determined little snot!
 
My oldest gave hers up on her own at about 6 months due to ear infections. We took the middle's away at one year exactly because I was adamant that she didn't need it after that. Now the youngest is a different story. :o He just turned 2 on Sept. 15 and he still has his for naps and bedtime. :o It's been strictly for sleeping times for about 6 months now but I just can't bring myself to take it away completely. Dh and I have been talking about taking them away for a while now but haven't taken the leap. I think one day they'll just be missing from their storage spot and that'll be the end of it. I think. :blink:
 
Wow Laura! Even with the ear infections huh? I love your affectionate nicknames :)

I really had an easy time with Andrew giving stuff up. The binkie was his own decision (lol at 10 months he was making his own decisions) and the bottle was a peice of cake too. No fight what-so-ever. He never really had a comfort item either... but he is a love so I guess he is doing ok without one? Actually when he is tired he likes to twirl my hair. If we are sitting on the couch he will say "hair" and want to hold a strand to twirl. It is really funny. So I guess I am his comfort item lol
 
I went cold turkey with all of my kids. Just took them all and hid them and never took them out again. I won't say they missed it at times at first, but they all had a blankie they were attached too and that kind of took the place of the binkies.
 
My son never used a binky, but my nephew was around 2 when my sister took his away. I think she just took it away (except for at night for a little while) and he was fine.

My daugter is 3 months old and uses a binky sometimes, mostly when she's falling asleep. I plan on taking it away when she weans to cow's milk. She's starting to play with her little soft dolly and I think it's replacing the binky because she's falling asleep playing with it. So yay! Maybe the binky will be gone sooner! (She sucks her thumb a lot though, so I'm wondering how that'll go...)
 
At about 18 months we started allowing it just at nap time and bedtime. Then he stayed with my mom for a weekend and she just didn't give it to him at all and he never asked for it again. Cold turkey worked for us.
 
Go cold turkey..if you just let them have it at naptime/bedtime I think it just confuses them and makes them beg for it more. When DS was 2 we just took it away and we had one night that was pretty bad and then night 2 he never even acted like it was gone.
 
Both of mine (DD 5 yrs and DS 2.5) used pacifiers. At around 2 we moved DD to a "bedtime only" rule, but even then we let her keep it. One day I told her that she could trade it in for a toy and she insisted that we go THAT MOMENT to the toy store. So we did! She picked out some $8 little My little Pony toy and that was the end of the paci!

DS is another story...he's a complete mama's boy, a total snuggler. He seems to have more trouble "dealing" with things than DD did. We don't let him take it out of the house (except for long car rides!) though and he's already starting to get ready to give it up on his own. In fact, a friend of ours had a baby and he keeps saying he wants to give his paci to the new baby!

Either way - as long as your daughter is speaking well, I wouldn't worry about it. :)
 
My youngest DD will be 3 in November and we will take paci's away sometime around Christmas. My older DD had hers until she was just over 3 as well. Both girls are great talkers and their dentist has no issues with our timeline of a little after 3. Neither girl had/has any other 'lovies' and both used more than one paci (older DD would click one in her hand and younger DD rubs one on her nose).
 
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