How to get rid of the dummy

Help. It’s really my sons only source of comfort (aside from his family) he is bothered by teddies or comforters. He doesn’t have it much in the day it’s just really his nap and bedtime but it was horrendous trialling him without it on the one night we just gave in. It looks like it’s starting to affect his teeth and I think it’s not helping his pronunciation when speaking. Any tips to get rid would be welcomed 😅

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Once we got past the one bad night it was so much easier. I think night one was around 45 minutes of crying whilst I was cuddling him and just repeating ‘no dummy but mummy’s here’. Night 2 was only about 5 minutes . By night 3 he didn’t ask for it once. So my advice is just stay strong that first night 🙃 x

We cut it during the day for a few weeks and tbh he didn’t really bother for it during the day at all. We kept it at night for a while. Then eventually we just took it off cold turkey and again he wasn’t fussed x

I only give my girl her dummy at night times as it was starting to affect her teeth xx

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