at what age did your baby/child stop using a dummy

[lilima]

Ok I have a friend with a nearly 3 yo who desperately wants her daughter to give up the dummy. She has it when she is out in public and she is just getting too old according to my friend,

SO I thought I would ask. What age did your child give it up, and how did you get them to do it?

[~Trish~]

My DS1 was 2 1/2 when he finally gave it up! I was so worried we'd never get rid of it. He unfortunately had a fall and injured his mouth and teeth badly and didn't want his dummy because it hurt so I hid them and that was the end of that LOL!

I have heard of others who have "given" their dummies to the Easter Bunny, Santa, etc. overnight and received a present the next day . I will be trying this with DS2

[mbear]

2.5 here too...easter bunny took it. We weaned gradually though...from days first, then night, then easter bunny.....

[Tinks]

DS just didn't want his dummy from about 6 mths.

DD1 had hers until she was 3 and a half. One night she couldn't find it when going to bed so I told her I wasn't going to look for it and she'd have to go to bed without it. It only took her a few nights to come to terms with the fact she had no dummy. As I found her dummies I hid them from her and when I moved house 2 years ago I found them all hidden in a drawer

DD2 didn't have one from birth, she just didn't like it.

[Olive]

DD1 had her thumb and not a dummy, but we got rid of it at 2yrs 2months, cold turkey!!

[ubba82]

DD 'left hers on the table at childcare' on a Friday afternoon when she was 2.5. She was over it by the Monday.
DS one day decided he would throw his in the bin cause he dropped it and it got dirty. He cried for it for about 4 nights but then was fine. He was 3.

[LimeSlice]

We have gone the opposite way...

Charlotte has never taken a dummy, at all, ever.

All of a sudden she has decided she loves it! Sleeps with it now every night I thought I had ducked the Dummy Bullet lol apparently not

My goddaughter gave hers to Santa on her 4th birthday, she only ever slept with them, but had to have one in her mouth and one in each hand lol But gave them to Santa so he could give them to other babies to use now that she was a big girl and didnt need them anymore

[didispunk]

My DD is 8 months and I personaly cant stand them.. When we get to Canada next week we are taking it off her cold turkey... well before she can talk and tell us she wants it.

[Mumma2three]

Megie, DD2 who is 3.5 still has a dummy but ONLY at night. I found it easy to take it away during the day, and we are telling her from recently, that santa will be taking the dummy. It means she'll be 4, but as she only has it at night Im not fussed. Maybe your friend could start by removing it in the day. Definitely easier than at night. I started by not sending it to daycare and she was fine, then I told her its' ONLY for bed time!
xo

[Evie76]

mumma2three - that's a very good idea.

DS has a very large attachment to his dummy. He has a little brother coming soon, though. So, I don't really want to impose too many changes upon him at this time. We'll do the dummy at bed thing I think.

[ajm mum]

DD2 was 3.5 and the dummy fairy come to visit in the night. We made a pretty box she put the dummys inside and the fairy left her a baby shreck to take to bed. She never asked for it again.

[Crystalwings]

Olive has never had a dummy but I think that comes from having a mum who is really anti dummy. Working in early childhood I have also seen the negative impact a dummy can have in regards to language and emotional development so have personally never had one for Olive.

[didispunk]

I am very anti dummy as well.. I cant stand them.. 4-5 year olds walking around with them.. I am not sure why they have one?

We would have never had a dummy for J if we went living in a 2 bedroom house with 5 people with my FIL... so off to Canada she will loose it there!! I CANT WAIT!

[Muffy]

DS has one mainly when he sleeps now...
DD rarely takes one thank god,,
i think santa will be taking logans...

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

I very nearly weaned DD a few months ago. It was fine until day 3 and she just went nuts. She was exhausted and screaming for hours but couldn't sleep without it, so I gave in. Now that we're potty training and have another baby on the way I don't know if this is the time to try again. I do worry about her teeth though.

[Laiceysmummy]

After months of trying, DD1 finally gave them up just after she turned 3, before that she'd only ever had them in bed.I never let her walk around with it in her mouth simply because i dont like how it looks. We just said to her that she was a big girl now and that it was time for her to stop having them. We put them in a baggy and wrapped them up like a present and then gave them to my SIL how had just had a baby girl. So as far as DD1 knows, her cousin has them (obviously she doesnt but we'd clued SIL in on what was happening) Now everytime DD1 sees her cousin she thinks that they were her dummies.