I'M struggling 2 get my daughter off her paci

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  • gacgbaker
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM

• I have heard of some parents doing a "pacifier fairy"... they tell the kids that the fairy has to go around and collect all the paci's from the big kids and in return they leave something.  So the child leaves the pacifier under the pillow like a tooth and the next morning its gone.  I have never done it, but I have heard it works really well!
  

  
  

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  • Mamagirlz
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM

• I've never dealt with a paci.  My girls only took it for a bit when they were born and never kept with it.  I don't know what my 3rd will do with it.  She's only 2 weeks.  I just know for myself I use to suck my thumb till I was 5.  I stopped on my own and my teeth were perfectly fine and never had any other problems from it.  If it was my kids I wouldn't worry about it till they are ready.   

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  • ainsworth3
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM

• Just pop a tiny hole in it and give it to her. It might make her mad but she will forget about it. Or just trash it and don't give in.  Once you do this she should be ok in a week or so. Good luck...I know it is hard.

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  • darbie2008
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM

• my son is only 11months old be i jsut took it away cold turkey for during the day and in a few months it will be gone at night to ..i was told cold turkey was best its hard for the first few days they say but well worth it  you just cant give in
  

  
  

  
  

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  • Jemia
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM

• My daughter is only 19 months old but I had the same problem with her until one day she couldn't find it and I refused to look for it. Then a couple days later she found it and tried to put it in her mouth and I took it away from and threw in the trash.

  

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  • KatieMosgrove
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:53 PM

• My daughter was pretty attached to hers. She had it in her mouth all of the time including when she would talk. It drove me nuts. At 15 months I finally decided to take them away from her. However that didn't seem to happen cuz somehow or another she kept finding more. So everytime she found one I cut the nipple off and she would try and suck on them but couldn't so she finally just gave up and didn't need them anymore. At night, I had a routine with her and read her a book brushed her teeth and tucked her in. Then we would leave the room and she would start crying and as hard as it was to just let her cry, after the first night, the crying got shorter and shorter and it finally just got to the point where she would go right to sleep after we put her in there. But it just takes time. Good luck
  

  Katie Mosgrove

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  • AddieNBrookie09
  on Nov. 8, 2009 at 4:06 AM

• we got a new puppy and it got a hold of it , i told her i wasnt buying any more pacifers its sucked the first couple of days but then she stopped asking about it!! i think she was about 17 months but i agree go cold truckey!  now when she sees her sissy with one shes liike eww thats yuckie!! good luck!!

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