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.
He's had his paci since birth and I want to break the habit sooner rather than later (10 months now).
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.
blogger / pomegranate / 3491 posts
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
grapefruit / 4085 posts
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! 
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
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!
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
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?
pear / 1610 posts
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!
blogger / cherry / 192 posts
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!
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
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.
apricot / 365 posts
@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).
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.
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
@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
apricot / 365 posts
@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.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
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!
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
@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.
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).
pomegranate / 3414 posts
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).
pomegranate / 3272 posts
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.
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