I'd love some thoughts and advice here, especially from people who's child had had a dummy long-term.

DD1 (approaching 3) loves her dummy (or should I say dummies). They not only help her go to sleep, but they help soothe her when she's sick, help calm her when she's hurt and help calm her in stressful and unknown situations (she had one in her mouth constantly in Thailand).

When she was about 18 months we made dummies more if a sleep only thing as opposed to having one in her mouth all day (as she'd previously been doing). We occasionally bend the rules such as in situations mentioned above.

Anyway, my current dilemma is she's approaching 3 and still uses a dummy. When I had her I honestly thought it'd be long gone by now. I am so conflicted as to whether we take it away or not. It's not like she has an issue with it.....it's totally us and what we think we 'should' be doing. Teeth-wise, I asked my dentist and he said so long as they no longer have it when they start getting all their next lot of teeth it's not really an issue.

So, what do I do? Take it away now? Keep it a bit longer? Hope she will grow out of it one day? Anything else?