What age did you paci wean for sleep? And do you wish you did it sooner? R is 14 months and very addicted for sleep. I was thinking try and wean by 18 months....but I'm already scared! Wondering how bad it was for ya'll.
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We were lucky that neither lo was too attached. LO1 gave it up sometime around 16 or 17 months pretty much on his own and LO2 was around 14-15 months when we went away for a week and forgot it and just didn't buy a new one. Both my kids slept like crap anyway so it didn't make a huge difference. I just wished we night weaned LO2 before getting rid of it. If they were sleeping great, I probably would not have really done anything about it until later!
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@winniebee: we didn't until 3! She only had it for sleep (and long car trips but we phased that out) and our dentist said it was okay. We got a big girl (twin) bed and then it was time. She had a really hard first week but then did well!
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Like 2.5 years with DD1, DD2 still has hers at just-turned-2. I was told by my dentist and my pediatrician not to worry until 3 years old, so I won't push it quite yet with youngest DD.
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@erinpye: how bad was it at 2.5?! I'm just worried it's going to be a battle royale with my little spitfire!
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My LO is 21 mo and we're not thinking of taking it away any time soon. She mostly only has it for sleep at this point and she is very attached to it. She didn't STTN until 14 mo so there is 0 chance I'm messing with sleep right now lol. I figure when she is older she'll either give it up on her own or we'll tell her it broke and she'll have the ability to understand that at that point.
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@winniebee: welllll it wasn't great. We have a little teddy bear with a zipper that we had her watch us zip her binky inside. She was allowed to sleep with "Binky Bear." We also let her sleep on the floor in her tent for a while, and she thought that was so cool, and it distracted her a little. I'd still catch her trying to sneak her little sister's binks for about a year or so, but she didn't NEED it anymore. Good luck! And if it doesn't work the first time, hold off and go back to it in a couple of weeks! We first tried at 21 months and then we decided with the newborn in the house, we wanted to sleep, haha!
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15 months for my first. We just took it cold turkey (she only used it for sleep), and the first few nights stunk and then it was fine. Her dentist wanted it gone by 18 months, so I figured we'd start then to give us some time to adjust if it took a while. DD2 is 15 months this weekend and still has hers. We just started taking about it, but I hate to rock the sleeping boat.
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2.5 and she is still using it...terrified to take it away...she only uses it at night...well wean once dd2 arrives and is a bit settled...goal for us is by 3...
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5 months, when we did sleep training. Cold turkey, not a problem.
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We just did it at 2.5 and it wasn't bad at all. My husband did it all himself....I wanted to wait a bit because LO has been sick so much recently. So I told him if he wants it gone, it's his game...and he did it! It was much easier than I anticipated.
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@Anagram: what's his secret?!
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@winniebee: well, my LO happens to be obsessed with the dentist (like she loves going) and my husband told her the dentist said no more paci. We've been going to the dentist a lot since LO fell and hit her front tooth, so the dentist backed us up on that and gave LO a special present after she went one week without it.
But really just the first night had crying and he just laid with her the first few nights till she got used to sleeping without it.
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@winniebee: Let's do it together! I want it gone by 18 mo too. Phase 1 is I can't leave them out during the day since she asks for them and knows where they are.
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We were supposed to do it this weekend (28 months). Of course now she's sick and also getting her back molars in. I think she'll be taking it to college.
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2.5, because it was affecting his teeth. The weaning itself wasn't so bad, but it totally effed up his sleep going forward. I would wait!
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My 26-month old is still addicted to the paci for sleep. She sleeps like a log. I am NOT messing with it.
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@hilsy85: Oh noooooo. That's the reason I DON'T want to wean - she sleeps like a champ! What happened??
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Just around her 2nd birthday, we started talking to her about being a big girl, and offering little massages before nap and bedtime to distract her from the usual comfort. Her pacifier was gone a week later, and it was pretty much a voluntary surrender. Really shocked me, since she was obsessed.
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@JoJoGirl: Prior to weaning, he had been sleeping like a CHAMP. I plopped him in his crib for nap, he would sleep around 2 hours, and bedtime was similarly easy--slept from like 730-630. Post paci weaning, naps became a HUGE battle. Eventually, I had to just stay in the room with him until he fell asleep, but that stopped working all the time, and he was always SUPER cranky when he woke up. Bed time became a shit show, where he would be in bed at 7:30 or 8 but not fall asleep til 9 or 9:30. He also woke up earlier. and in general just became clingier around bedtime--wanting someone to sit with him and hold his hand at the beginning of teh night and th emiddle of the night. It only really got better after like 3-4 months, and then he started to drop his nap--which improved his night time sleep. And then baby #2 came and it all went to crap again
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@hilsy85: Oh my good lord. That is terrifying. LO turns 3 in May and I really don't want to ditch it
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@JoJoGirl: don't! our denist told us that we didn't need to worry til 3 or 4--I just freaked myself out because i could see his teeth starting to protrude. i regret it!
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We are fast approaching the 3 year mark and my little man is obsessed (he only has it for sleep). We have started talking to him how at his third birthday the pacifier has to go. He brings it up occasionally so I know he's processing it. We'll see how it goes.
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@hilsy85: Hers are too. We were going to come up with a plan a couple of weeks after her 3rd birthday (we're going away for the first time so don't want to deal with it beforehand). ugh!
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@hilsy85: Oh no! This is what we are scared of, too. My LO's teeth have actually started growing inward (I think because she just sucks so hard). But she sleeps so well with the pacifier. It is such a hard call for me.
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@catlady: how old is your LO? Honestly, I really wish I had waited til 3 or after--seeing how aware he is now, I think we could have tried the paci fairy or trading it in for a big toy or something. And I could have gotten a few more months of good sleep before the baby came!
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@hilsy85: She is 28 months. I was hoping to do it before age 2.5 years. Like you, the teeth is really what is freaking me out. She also has little brown spots behind her lower front teeth and I am wondering if the paci is causing it, since we do brush her teeth and I always make sure to get back there. Last time we had them checked, they weren't cavities yet but they have grown bigger in the last few months and worry me. Ugh sleep vs. teeth.
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@catlady: hm did the dentist say the paci could be causing them? and that it's decay? in that case that would prob sway me to wean sooner rather than later
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@hilsy85: He said it was probably "calcification", but that we needed to come back again in a few months to check again. He didn't say it was from pacifier use, but I think that's because I was still nursing and he thought it was from that. We've weaned but the spots are bigger. I'm just hypothesizing but the paci seems like the next logical thing.
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@hilsy85: so this is kinda why I'm aiming to do it at 18m. I don't want to do it when he really knows what's up!
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@Mrs D: This is me exactly. Kid is just past 2.5 and only uses it at night. It seems to help her settle down, otherwise she just will not stop talking. She usually loses it at night and is fine without it 99% of the time. Hoping by 3, but definitely not excited about it. We're about to launch into a big girl bed transition and hopefully after that stabilizes, we can kick the paci too.
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@winniebee: We took it from C at 17 months (had already limited her to sleep only). It was way easier than I anticipated. We did it a Friday night at bedtime. She fussed a bit that night and the next nap but that was all, never looked back.
For K, she's already weaned at daycare, so in theory I should stop for naps at home too. But she's so easy when in her crib with a pacifier that I'm not ready to mess with it. We have vacation (flying/condo/beach) at 18 months and if she's not weaned before then, I will do it after vacation.
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18 ish months. I was worried about it because he loved it, but I also knew he'd gone to sleep just fine for other people without it! It turned out to not really be an issue! Now he can sleep without any sleep crutches if we need him to (although quiet and away from people is still a must.)
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@MamaG: @brownepiano: phew thanks!
@MamaG: we have a trip at 16 months and I think we will deal with it after that! I know many use it til 3 but I hate the idea of having to wean something hanging over my head, if that makes sense.
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We took ours on vacation last month with E. On the way back, I gave it to her on the plane and she kept finding it during the day while we were there (previously only used it in bed for naps or bedtime). Once we got back, she kept seeing it in her crib when I was changing her diaper and pointing to it. So I decided to just wean her from it because I didn't want to deal with it when she could understand more and miss it and ask for it. We just went cold turkey and she has been fine! I give her a tiny blanket and a lovey and a small stuffed animal if she wants it instead now.
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At 31 months. Totally by accident because I broke his very last pacifier while washing it. That first night, he did not sleep a single minute. And his naps have gone from 3-3.5 hours each day, to maybe an hour or so once or twice a week. He does sleep a solid 12 hours at night, but the napless days are soooo long.
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About 14 months. It was torture for two nights and then it was all good. So glad we did it then instead of waiting because the addiction was serious and battling with her now (2.5) would be so much harder.
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