Comments on: When and How did YOUR Child say Good-bye to Pacis?

By: ghd

ghd — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:17:56 +0000

thank you for your work

By: Amy Nelson

Amy Nelson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:14:03 +0000

When my twin 3 year old girls chewed through the last ones, we took the pacis to the toy store and they picked out a toy and “paid” with the paci. The young kid at the counter looked at me like I had 2 heads when i told the girls to hand him their pacis and take their toys. I slid him my credit card so they didn’t see. One biddy never asked about it again and the other cried about it for a week at bed time, and still asks for it when she’s tired.

By: sandy

sandy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:05:35 +0000

Hi Susan, Nice to meet you. I met Janice in Chicago at Kraft Foods.

Couldn’t help but comment. Our son, the only “Nuk” lover, gathered all his Nuks and placed in a ziploc bag. We took them to the doctor and the doctor, one by one, tossed them in the garbage.

The doc became the bad guy, took the pressure off of us, as parents, and life went on. Garrett never asked for his Nuks again!

Sandy

By: Kimberlly

Kimberlly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:46:10 +0000

I’m so glad that I never had to go through this ordeal. My oldest refused to ever take a paci at all and my younger stopped wanting one around 4 months old. Both of my siblings had the same luck with their kids. I guess we’re just not a paci-loving family!

By: Bess

Bess — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:24:19 +0000

My daughter (now 4) loved her pacifiers! Yes, multiple…in her crib and around the house. When she turned two, I started limiting daytime use and kept it mainly to nighttime. what it would do to her teeth was what prompted the start of limited use. She was a little resistant but went with the flow. Nighttime was tougher, so I cut a little of the top off so she couldn’t suck on it. When we realized she would still suck on it, I cut more off. She cried a little bit, but she eventually just liked holding it in her hand at nighttime, which we didn’t mind. By the time she was 2.5 years, she started forgetting about the pacifier at night.

I must say, though, that I definitely missed the cuteness factor of it all and it was hard for me as her mommy to see her growing up! Things change SO quickly!

By: Linda S

Linda S — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:22:38 +0000

I posted about taking Lil Man’s ‘binky’. It is a day I will always remember. http://lindabelle.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/binkys-galore-gusgus-took-them-away/

By: Pamela M. Kramer

Pamela M. Kramer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:32:00 +0000

I never gave her one. It drove my mom nuts! lol

By: Angie

Angie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:48:10 +0000

My kids have all been big binky lovers – except for my youngest. Mommy is the only pacifier he will use.

With my oldest 3, we just took the paci away – cold turkey – at the age of 2. Our 4th, however, was the hardest one to break of the paci. We ended up handing the pacis over to the Easter Bunny when she was about 2 and a half. If you want to read all about it, you can do so here: http://www.5vinezmonkeys.com/2009/04/she-handed-her-pacifiers-over-to-easter.html

Now, if you have any tips on how to get a baby to stop using Mommy as a pacifier, I’d love to hear them. Can’t exactly hand my boobs over to the Easter Bunny!

By: Michell

Michell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:49:56 +0000

We just got rid of my daughter’s passy about 2 months ago. I was really dreading this moment and it just kind of happened. I told her that Tinker Bell was coming to take her passy’s to give them to the babies since she wasn’t a baby anymore. She’s 2 1/2. She was OK with Tinker Bell coming to take them and hasn’t asked for them since. I really thought this would be a struggle, but it ended up being really easy! Well, except she has boycotted Tinker Bell lately.. but that’s a good thing… Good luck!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:28:02 +0000

We got rid of my son’s paci when he was 18 months old because he was starting nursery at church and I did not even want to think of him swapping or taking someone else’s paci. It grossed me out.

I was also worried about how it would effect his teeth. My nieces teeth started poking out from her paci. Not good!

At first we just snipped the end so it would not work right. Mind you he only had it at night at this point. After a couple of days we just told him it was gone. He was fine and went right to sleep.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:29:29 +0000

My oldest never wanted one. My son loved his and kept his until he was almost 3. Probably too long, but I do a lot of things “wrong” that are very “right” for our family. My youngest is almost 17 months and still using binkies, but she’s also still nursing too, so. She’ll give it up when it seems right and not a moment sooner.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:35:39 +0000

I never gave my kids a binky! I think if you just try to ween it away and give them something else to hold on to that may work?

Offer an exchange! The binky for a toy, blanky…how about a puppy;D….

Good Luck!:0)

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:54:34 +0000

I had the hardest time with the “binky” as we call it. I tried to get rid of it by following my friends advice….tell her the binky fairy took it….have her throw it away….cut holes in it. none of that worked too well, because as soon as she wanted it I would give it right back to her, because I couldn’t stand her to cry. Finally, we dropped the one-an-only binky in a parking lot during a huge rainstorm and I refused to buy more. When she asked for it I just told her we lost it in the rain and she never had it again!! So, I was FORCED to get rid of it, but I guess that was the only way for me!!

By: Annie

Annie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:16:46 +0000

We took the paci (nuk at our house) at 18 mos with my little girl. We did it during our VBS week at church. That way she was too tired to really fight for long. She cried 10 minutes the first night and then 2 every night after that. She stopped crying at bedtime when we started making her lay down and covered her with a blanket before we left the room. That really helped.

By: BHF

BHF — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:13:19 +0000

nice story, thx a lot, I just discovered English written blogs, to improve my English.

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