My 13-month old is addicted to her pacifier. I know this is nothing new to most parents, but my son was a thumb-sucker, and he is almost 3 and still sucks his thumb when tired or going to bed but not most other times. Anyway, back to the 13-mo. old. She has always been a paci girl. We would give her one when she was crying (and not hungry or wet) as an infant, and now she seems to need one every time she goes to sleep. We really try not to let her have one other times of the day... only at nap time and bed time, but sometimes under extenuating circumstances, we'll give her one to comfort herself. Anywho... my question is how do I break her from having a paci? I have heard ppl say not to worry about it, she'll give it up on her own, and no child ever starts kindergarten sucking a paci, but I happen to know someone who used a pacifier until she was 9! And my main problem with it is that when she wakes in the night and can't find a paci, she screams and cries until someone comes in and physically puts one in her mouth. She does not sleep all the way through one night without waking for her PACI! HELP!

well i really had no problem braking my son of a binky (thats what we called the paci), because he never really took it.

I would say maybe put some pepper or something that she would remember that tasted horrible on it and maybe she would not take it anymore. Or try some kind of spice or try just not giving it to her it maybe a struggle at first but i'm sure after a few days it will get better.

Like i said i really had no problem with this but thats what i would do if it was me.

I have just posted something about my son picking his nose and holly gave me the idea aboutthe pepper and so now after 3 days he hasn't picked his nose.

 

Having raised 2 binky lovers I speak from exp

  13 months is young, they dont have to give it up at this point yet. It still gives them alot of comfort as they change from a baby to toddler. If they arent ready to give it up they wont, they may just change to a thumb sucker. The fact that she still wakes screaming means she really isnt ready to give it up and its not worth it to force the issue yet. Both of miune gave it up around 18 months or so. We just stopped offering it at night and at nap time and that did the trick. They were ready at that point.

 

You dont want to use pepper or such on the binky since it goes in their mouth, you could traumatize them towards food and such that does go in their mouth...

 

Here's a couple of old threads about the paci issue.  I think there were a few more but I got tired of looking.  You should find some helpful info in these though.  Good luck.

http://www.mommytalk.com/viewthread/2329/I_th ......

http://www.mommytalk.com/viewthread/1967/Brea ...!!

My first 2 kids never wanted a bip (pacifier) thank goodness.  My youngest one who is 5 1/2 months now came home from 5 days in NeoNatal Intensive care unit of the hospital using a bip.  I was just so grateful to have him that I couldn't take it from him.  Now he uses it on occasion, but mainly he chews (or I should say gums) on the whole thing when he is having teething issues.  I can't imagine knowing anyone who would let their 9 year old have one still.  That is just so wrong in so many ways.  I feel that at 13 months, you don't have anything to worry about yet.  Just make sure you always know where one is, to avoid the screams....LOL

I can definitely relate!  Our daughter never used a pacifier or sucked her thumb.  As long as she had her two blankies, she was fine.  Timothy was a paci boy from the beginning.  And I can totally relate to the nighttime paci search.  We ended up getting some of the paci clips (the ones with the slider, not just a regular clip) to attatch to his pajamas.  That made it easier to find at night.  We also tried to find the extras before we went to bed, and kept them on our nightstand so it made things quicker and easier at night. 

I can't tell you exactly how old he was when we quit, right off the top of my head.  I would have to go look it up.  But I think it was somewhere around the 15-18 months.  We also had limited it to naptime and bedtime, but he started looking and asking for it during the day.  So we decided it was just time to call it quits.  We went cold turkey with it.  I completely expected it to be an absolute nightmare, since we are talking about a boy who was born with a triple dose of stubborn and screaming.  But we just told him at bedtime that his paci was all gone and it really wasn't an issue.  I was truly amazed!  I know our neighbors' youngest daughter also used a paci and is also VERY stubborn.  But shortly after she turned 1, they told her that it was time to be done with the paci.  They told her that it needed to go in the garbage, and she knew that you don't take things back out of the garbage.  They had her throw them in, and that was it. 

I hope this helps you out a little.  I think you just need to watch for the right timing and do what you think will work best for your child.  You know them better than anyone else. 

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