Getting rid of the dummy 🫣

My sons only 19 months but seems to be more dependent now than when he was younger 🙈 I’m going to try the apple cider vinegar trick and then if that doesn’t work, just cold turkey it and hope to god it only takes a few nights to get him out of it x

If she’s old enough to verbalise and understand things in that way, we often have parents at work (I work in a nursery) who use the dummy fairy! They talk to the child about how another little baby needs the dummy more & gets the child to help put them in a pot and leave a letter for the dummy fairy, similar to how you do milk etc for Santa at Xmas. We have a dummy fairy letter at work that we personalise and send home with the parents that I’m happy to personalise and send you if you want to go that route? Xx

I just hide my daughters when she slept for a few days and the rest was history.. of course she cried but I comforted her and then she forgot about it.. 😄

I cut my daughters one… and when she grabbed it we just said it broke… she was reaching out for it for the next couple days still but after couple of seconds spilling it out. We’re dummy free for the past 2 weeks 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Commenting as I’m interested in people’s responses! We moved from dummy whenever he wanted it to only at nap/bedtime from 18 months. If he sees one he will ask for it and we say “it’s only for sleep time” and he gets on with his day! I’m not sure he totally understands what we are saying just yet. I think I will wait until he’s 2 and see how much he understands things then and try to explain things more.

@Courtney That would be amazing if you don’t mind sending it to me! 🙏 thank you! Xx