Ditched the dummy

Hey! Dummy has been ditched for 4 solid days now - my boy has done so well without it.
Just as he’s about to drop into a sleep it breaks my heart seeing him still make the sucking motion as he would if he had the dummy in.

I know every baby is diff, but could that last for a while? He does take a little longer to settle for naps / sleep (which is to be expected). It’s like he knows something should be there 🥲

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Hey!

So for the past few weeks (roughly) I started just giving him it for naps / sleep. So no daytime use at all apart from nap time which didn’t seem to bother him.
Then when it came to weaning it completely, I snipped the rubbery part of the dummy off and for the first day (before naps/sleep) I would give it to him, and the more he tried to sook on it and couldn’t, he soon realised he couldn’t soothe himself with it anymore.
So I would cuddle him before naps and sleep, play some nice soothing music so he was concentrating on something different and he ended up just falling asleep with it in his hand.
There were some tears on the first day but just stick with it.
Day two onwards, no dummy at all (and next to no tears, just a moan here and there) and we’re now on day 6 and he’s basically forgotten about it - he sometimes still searches for it in bed but he isn’t bothered that it’s not there.
I have heard some people just go cold turkey and don’t do the snipped off the tip but…

I wanted to try it and see what he’d do. They adjust far quicker than we think they will… clever wee souls.

I also made sure I had lots teethers at hand for during the day at the beginning of the journey!

Oh and the sucking motion I posted about above has became less and less!

Good luck!! Xxx

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