Okay, so the bottles are not a big deal--I've already started switching her over to regular cups--but UGH! Getting rid of her bink is going to be so much harder!
He said to do it gradually so she doesn't start sucking her thumb, a much harder habit to break.
I don't even know how to begin weaning her. This was a non-issue with Makayla. She only used a bink for about 6 weeks when she was 12 or 13 months. Then she stopped completely on her own.
If anyone has suggestions of how to do this weaning thing gradually, I'd seriously be so grateful. I don't want to traumatize the poor girl by taking her bink away too quickly. Plus, I desperately want her to continue going to sleep on her own and sleeping through the night. (I'm really selfish that way.)
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this is some advice from sarah's dentist. you have two good options. 1. have a bye-bye binky party. make a really big deal out of it like it's going away on long long trip or something. this may work better on older kids, but who knows. 2. start snipping little bits off the end of the binky. if she still keeps sucking on it, keep snipping day by day until you've cut the whole nipple part off. this is what we used on emery. 3 slightly hellish days later, binky was gone and things have been great ever since. he didn't even try to steal evan's, which was interesting.
I don't have any suggestions, but a plea. Don't take either away until Grandma has done her babysitting this week!!!!!! :) PLEASE?!!!
I haven't had this kind of issue with any of my kids. I can only offer advice that I've seen on "SUPER NANNY". They tied all the baby's binkys to a bunch of balloons and sent them off to all the "babies" that needed them. I thought that it was REALLY cute.
totally unrelated, but i think it's hilarious that you're writing comments on derek's blog. we don't even KNOW him. i wonder what he's thinking right now. . .
I've also heard of cutting off the nipple of the binki. Still give it too her but she just won't want it anymore cause it's broken.
I'm not an expert but with Kenzie I tried to cold turkey her like I did with Wyatt and the first night she did great but then she got sick and mommy felt bad so I gave it back and then she wanted it more then she did before and she would chew on her fingers so don't cold turkey it!! Now I've started taking it away from her first thing in the morning when she wakes up and only give it to her when she naps or goes to bed it seems to be working for now but you really have to stick to that if you start or they learn they can cry for a long time and you will give in. If she asks for it I just change the subject and she usually forgets. I don't know if that helps you or not all kids are different. Oh yeah make sure you have found all the ones she had hidden or it really gets hard. Good Luck!! If I finally find a way to get rid of Kenzies for good I let you know.
With Brenden, I definately started to only give it to him at nap time and night time. I wouldn't give it to him during the day while he was awake at all, even if he got hurt(that is what would help me calm him down) I then tried not giving to him at naps and so forth. Then I think he wouldn't go to sleep some night and I said I was going to throw his binki away and I did and he was fine. Afterwards I thought that I should have had him actually throw it away. I was really suprised at how well he did cause he was such a binki boy. I too was really worried about him not sleeping at night. He had to have one in his mouth and one in each hand so you can see how worried I was, but he did great. Just try it gradually and see.
Every kid is different but for Jordyn and Jeylin, we just took the pacifier away completely and it probably only took a week total before they quit asking for it and stopped needing it. I realize that this isn't the slow approach you were going for but for the record, it didn't traumatize either one of them and neither of them sucked their thumbs. Just a note...but like I said earlier, every kid is different...you need to do what works for Ellie.
Ryan was a major binki boy it was like an opiate(?) for him you put it in and his eyes just rolled back and he was quiet it was great, but obviously I had to be a good mommy and take it away. At first we did the just naptime and bedtime thing and I didn't take it away I made him give it to me so he had more control over the situation. Then when we moved into our new house I just told him that we didn't have any binkies here and he didn't ever ask for one again. He did have issues going to sleep at night for awhile though, he would just scream by the door until he fell asleep there finally I got some advice that maybe music would help so I got out a classical music cd that I had from a baby geniuses movie that starts out with a cool version of twinkle twinkle little star, and it worked like a dream now almost a year later he goes to sleep with the music but he doesn't need the binkie and besides classical music is supposed to help develop their brains right so another perk. Anyways so that is my story, I know you probably aren't moving but from what it sounded like in your comments your mom is going to have the kids for a while so maybe when she comes back from that you can use the there are no binkies in the house anymore. It just made it easier for Ryan that there was a good reason that the binkies were going away not just mom being mean and taking them.
I took Kenny's away cold turkey when he turned one. Honestly I don't remember it all that much which means it must not have been that big of a deal. Good Luck!
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