Good luck Tan! We did this a few weeks ago and my kids handled it better than I thought they would DS (who's 25mths) had a little trouble for about a week going to bed at night and found it hard to settle, it was taking us up to an hour sometimes a bit more to get him down, but he wouldn't cry or anything, just fluff about for ever! DD is not having ehr day sleeps every day (maybe 3/7days she will sleep), but will sit quietly on the lounge and watch tv for an hour or so, so I'm happy with that, she's 3 1/2 now so big enough not to have one. Night times were no trouble at all surprisingly.
You can do it and so can Izzy! She will probably surprise you. Good luck, I have everything crossed for a smooth transition!!
Best of luck sweety!! You and Iz can do it!! It is fantastic that you have talked to Izzy about it before hand so it doens't come as a shock and she's expecting it.
Ahh...I remember the dummy fairy. My mum sent the dummy fairy to me and took my dummy away and left a toy in place one night when I was around 3 or 4 . Apparently it worked, cause I never worried about it or asked for it again after that. Hopefully it works for you's too .
I was like you with DD1. Really nervous about how it was going to go. We gave it to the dummy fairy before she went to bed one night and she got a big bag of blocks the next morning that the fairy had left. We had one night of a tantrum just before bed but she was fine all night. The next night she looked at me shrugged her shoulder and said no dummy! So hopefully your DD will take to the no dummy just fine. Good luck!
Best of luck hun! We 'left' DD's on our holiday back in Feb and when we got home she asked for it. I then pretended to call the lady from the holiday house and told her to give the dummy to a special little baby who needed it. Worked a treat and there were no tears/tantrums!
Went to the shops leaving a bag with dummies and a note she wrote on it saying Please give these to the babies hanging on a tree, got her backapck (that thing is gonna drive me NUTS) at the last shop we went to, came home and I parked right up the driveway and went to "check" replacing dummies with a fairy doll. Unphased by the doll - went to bed, minimal tears and it SO helped being able to say - honey you wrote a note and gave the dummies, rather than we took them away, and after 20 mins of mucking around (usual these days anyway but no tears) she fell asleep!
Now just to get through tonight, once she's asleep I know she will be fine because she ditches it anyway, its more the getting to sleep and then the 5am wake up for it! SO far very painless whoooooo!!!
Goodluck! The dummy fairy visited our house last week and DD was sooo excited! It wasn't until the next night that she had a bit of a meltdown about it all Poor girl got so desperate for a dummy that she licked my arm! Hahaha. I lie down with her for sleeps too, and she used to rub my arm whilst she sucked her dummy off to sleep, and she has decided to give that up too!
Just keep being persistent, it will work and they will find a new pattern for getting themselves to sleep. DD is taking a lot longer now to go off so i just ignore and play on the laptop, i am sure this will settle down soon though.
Alex was 4 when he gave his up.
It wasn't even a dummy anymore, just a stump.
Once he saw that Sam didn't have a dummy (wasn't prepared to go through it all again so we never gave him one), he decided he didn't need his anymore & threw it in the bin himself.
We had tried everything & it would always end in tears from him & me.
Hopefully it will all go well for you
Dan - Nope J never had one nor wanted one so that is easy! He has a bottle still though but Iz had one til nearly 3 so Im not too worried about that.
Well last night was interesting, we have been having a few issues with her at night lately just mucking around needing water, toilet, blankets off etc. anyway so she cried for about 10 mins when she realised that the dummy was gone, and I lay down with her and she was ok. Problem was I lay there for nearly 30 mins and she just kept mucking around so then when I went to leave she cracked it, then wanted the big light on, then wanted the door more open etc. the list went on and on and on til 9 (2 hours after she went to bed) by which time I had lost it. She didn't mention the dummy again but was obviously a bit thrown by it. I ended up putting her in our bed and she fell asleep within 2 minutes and then moved her to her bed where she slept til 6:40 with no wake up for dummy! Just woke up with a happy face on!
The really interesting thing was that she used to twirl her hair to go to sleep, started when she was around 12 mths and as her hair got longer she would twist it and curl it til she fell asleep, I noticed yesterday that she didn't do it for her nap but she didn't last night either, so it was like it was linked to the dummy?? Made me a bit sad not to see her "curling" as she calls it - my baby seems to be growing up.
Anyway seems to have been a fairly painless transition so far, the mucking around last night could have been any night recently so Im not sure that it was the dummy or not!
DD1 used to play with her clothes tags when sucking her thumb (the tags at the neck ot tops etc..) but when we stopped the thumb sucking the tag playing stopped too!
hope she goes to sleep easier tonight for you
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. Apparently it worked, cause I never worried about it or asked for it again after that. Hopefully it works for you's too 
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Made me a bit sad not to see her "curling" as she calls it - my baby seems to be growing up. 
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