https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 24 May 2026 02:16:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310120 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:52:59 +0000 Mommy Finger 1310120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, DS just started to pick up the paci at around 12 months when we bottle weaned. Looking forward to breaking that one. We usually try to only allow him to have it when he goes down to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310115 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:49:59 +0000 purrpletulips 1310115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 15m and only uses a paci at night. We have started putting him down without it and he'll go to sleep fine without it; our goal was to get him away from it soon. He has started waking up at night but I think that is mostly because he's teething, when we give him the paci he stops waking up. DD was a thumb sucker and we finally broke that habit at 3.5yo (again only at night). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310080 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:37:47 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1310080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Polish: Our pediatrician said DD is a very oral child, meaning that's how she explores everything (more so than most children). We took hers away a few months ago because she desperately still needed it. Her pediatrician said that, 4 years is really the latest we have to take it away. </p> <p>That being said, we took it away, but weaned her from it slowly (like over a month). We stopped giving it to her anywhere but her crib. Then we worked on removing it at nap time, and finally took it away at bedtime (which was actually pretty easy since she was used to not having it at that point). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310055 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:29:05 +0000 Mamasig 1310055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I worried about getting rid of the pacifier with DS but he actually did it all on his own at around 15 months. He had an ear infection and runny nose and I think it just bothered him to suck on it. He would push it away when offered. I figured let me stop offering. It worked! My point is, he may just phase it out himself. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310053 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:28:43 +0000 whodat 1310053@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Polish: Haha I guess I'm used to battling my mother, who didn't give me or my brother pacifiers EVER and thinks it's unnatural, hinders development, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310040 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:23:26 +0000 Mrs. Polish 1310040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@whodat: they're all the opposite. I'm trying to lose it too early for their tastes. Someone told me I need to let him be a baby and the another said that I need to give it back to him because he started putting his thumb in his mouth </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1310028 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:19:58 +0000 whodat 1310028@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Polish: People need to chill out. It's not like the guy is in kindergarten with a pacifier. In the long run, it's going to be no big deal. (Now, I've heard horror stories about thumb-sucking, but that's a different matter).</p> <p>My son is almost 2 and he uses it for sleep -- and knows it's only for sleep. We keep a coffee can in his room, and when he gets up in the morning he drops it in the can. I feel like, when he's ready, he'll lose it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1309957 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:45:38 +0000 Mrs. Polish 1309957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is going well so far. He only gets it in bed and one time at Target during a meltdown. I didn't realize that so many people my parents age had such strong opinions about pacifiers. They've been my strongest critics so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304212 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:05:21 +0000 Mrs. Markers 1304212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm thinking about doing the same thing - the only thing I'm afraid of is long car rides! The paci saves us because she hates her car seat. Let me know how this goes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304199 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:44:00 +0000 creativemomma15 1304199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started by only giving it to DS when sleeping, sometimes if desperate in the car. Then, when we were ready to get rid of it altogether we cut a small slit in it and only gave it to him that way. He would chew on it for a little and try to suck but he got used to it eventually. It wasn't super easy by any means but I expected it to be a lot worse. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304196 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:40:24 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1304196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No advice, but good luck! I was so afraid of breaking the pack habit that I never gave one to Chloe... Maybe once or twice? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304188 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:21:29 +0000 Bao 1304188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish we would have done this sooner. She is 16 months and now it's a battle. I think starting by only allowing it during sleep is a great start, good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304186 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:19:06 +0000 fancyfunction 1304186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We let ours go at 6 mo. I started only offering it at sleep and once it was out of her mouth, I'd take it away. One day she just didn't want it anymore. Good luck! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304164 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:36:04 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 1304164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>good luck - I WISH we did this around that age- C is 100000% addicted at 19 months and I am pretty sure I missed our window and will be stuck with it til age 3 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bye-paci#post-1304162 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:33:20 +0000 Mrs. Polish 1304162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I asked this on FB, so sorry if it's redundant...I had been waiting to take his paci away until his final incisor broke through. He got 5 teeth at the same time so it was a nightmare. </p> <p>He's had his paci since birth and I want to break the habit sooner rather than later (10 months now).</p> <p>Any tips on the best approach? I only let him have it for sleep yesterday but he went and ran errands with dh and came home with it in his mouth. </p>