We have a bunch of them. Some were given to us at my shower, some we purchased during those first hard, hard days when we would have done ANYTHING to get her to stop crying. She wouldn't have anything to do with them. So they were pushed aside with the thought that maybe our second child (if there is one) would like them. One found its way into my diaper bag, where it sat at the bottom for a year, another was in the top drawer of her dresser, back behind the socks, yet another was in one of our bedside tables. They were one of those ubiquitous items that kept turning up all over the house, but you never get rid of because you think maybe someday we'll use them.
I'm not sure which one she found first, but find one she did. Now, she is maniacal about them. She even goes so far as to suck on it between bites of food and attempting to drink her sippy cup while the paci is in the corner of her mouth. That's a loud and messy proposition, let me tell you.
It took practically nipping the end of her finger off to cure her of thumbsucking, I am not looking forward to breaking this habit.
I am the worst person in the world to give advice on this topic, because the "pluggy" as we call it is Summer's best friend in the whole wide world, and buck teeth and all...we arn't doing anything about it yet!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't help that I think they look adorable with them in their mouth (just look at Sophie in that picture!!) and it keeps them happy!...nuff said for this tired mom!
oh geez. Maia still won't take a pacifier -- well, she'll take one, but she won't actually hold it in her mouth. I should go read your thumb sucking post.
ReplyDeleteMichael used to suck his 2 fingers (index and middle) on his right hand. I think he still does at night.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are ready to rid yourself of pacifiers just tell her "it's time" and have her throw it in the trash. That worked for us with Lauren. She had a blankie that was nastified and needed to go. We just told her that she was a big girl now and it was time to throw her "minky" away. She did and it's been 2 years without minky and she's fine.
my kids never took to pacifers - I really wanted them to at times - but they never did.
ReplyDeleteKaishon never liked them. But don't worry. She won't take it to kindergarten : ).
ReplyDeleteI was a thumbsucker... but both of my girls took pacifiers.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the age I took the pacis away... but I do remember it was harder to take it away from my oldest than my youngest.
It may just be a novelty right now, not a full-force addiction? Perhaps if you start her on Dr. Pepper you could distract her from the pacifiers . . .
ReplyDeleteMy youngest was a rabid thumb sucker! I still sometimes see him doing it in his sleep!
ReplyDeleteMine never took to the pacifiers. At all. We here are blanket whores.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I have 3 to break of this habit and it is not going to be pretty.
ReplyDeletemy kid used to two fist her pacies as we called them. I had literally 20 at any given time. Eventually, it was cold turkey time and she never went back
ReplyDeleteOh boy.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say that they're an easier habit to break than thumb or finger sucking (since you can take them away) but then read that you'd already broken her of the thumbsucking habit.
She's awfully cute trying to smile around it.
T was hooked on his "bots." Z never got into them.
After Z was born, T started biting holes through the pacifiers out of frustration. We ended up down to one and the last one he bit through right before bed. I wasn't willing to go to Target, and I told him it was broken so that was it. He looked at me for the longest time and then said O.K.
That was that.
I feel your pain. Mine had hers until she was almost 3 and we had a lot of them. The worse was she'd go all day at daycare without it and as soon as she got in the car to go home had to have it. I cut small holes in them to try and break her of them and she got to where she would check the pacifer to see if it had holes. As she got more teeth she would break through the rubber herself and throw them in the trash, so that soon there were no more and it was over. Now if she sees one she says "those are for babies." She'll leave it when she's ready.
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