Sharing - rid of paci

Just thought I would share our "getting rid of the paci" experience. We are going on 2 nights with no paci. One of the boys (L) actually bit the top of the paci off right before bed. He was quite upset and said, "I broke it." But went to bed understanding it didn't function like before. His brother still had his. After nap yesterday, I took the one functioning paci and hid it. I showed A who still had the good paci, the broken one and he threw it across the room. Last night, neither had a paci and they seemed ok with it! I was so terrified of taking the paci's away as they seemed Very attached to them. L even called his "I"
I hope this is it for us!!

 

I was always terrified about taking them away but it always turned out to be easier than I thought. Good job!

 

Same here!!

Good job to you!!! I am glad its going well! :good:

 

Me too, I was scared of taking them away, and other than a difficult experience with my older dd, for the most part it was a piece of cake taking them away! Congrats to you!!

 

I'll be doing this soon. One DD is already free but the other cries bloody murder if she can't find them before bed. I'm happy to know there are good experiences out there!

 

Ended up giving it back to L b/c his sleep went downhill. He is cutting his bottom molars too. Feeling really bad about doing this, but his sleep was suffering too..

 

That's why I am waiting for all their molars to be in before getting rid of the pacis but I am dreading it so much. They only use it for sleep.

 

I gave my oldest dd's paci back after trying to take it away at age 2. She screamed for 4 hrs and I was 4 months pregnant with twins and needed my sleep! She was 3 yrs old when we took it away next and she did much better! :hug: You gotta do what you gotta do!

 

I took mine away on February 1st. If I had known what was going to happen to their/our sleep, I would haven't taken away the pacis until they went to college (sort of kidding). Mine were getting pretty old, so I stuck with it, but they didn't nap for a month. I finally got them back to napping, but it took a full month, and bedtimes and nighttimes were a disaster during that time, and they were championship sleepers prior. It is very nice not to have to deal with the pacis, but I miss them when the girls get upset and don't settle nearly as well as they did with their pacis. They also get up earlier as they don't have that comfort to lay there and fall back to sleep. I see improvement every week, so I think it will eventually get back to normal, but it hurts my heart that they don't have that comfort.

You have to do what you have to do, so giving it back was right for you right now. You can always do it later. Kids suck their thumbs a long time, I did until I was six.

 

We took pacis away 3 weeks ago & our sleep has been miserable. They absolutely will not nap or sleep at home without hours of singing, rocking, or fussing at them. Fortunately, they are still napping at the babysitter's, but they didn't take a paci there, anyway. Everyone told me it would take 3 days, and that just wasn't true for us. I"m tempted to give the pacis back so they'll sleep. It's been awful.

 

Stephsoss is your ticker right, are your little ones a little over a year old? Honestly, and this is just my opinion, but some kids still need that soothing motion at that age. It's why i didn't worry about taking any of my kids paci's away until they were 2-3 yrs old. Personally I probably would have caved in already and given them their paci's back already, sleep is very important to me!

 

Hmm. That's weird. No, my ticker is not right. My twins are 27 months old....

 

:lol: I wondered! Well....my answer still kinda stands, my oldest dd was not ready at age 2. She had trouble calming herself down, especially in new situations, and she couldn't figure out how to soothe herself yet. The twins also weren't ready, i tried, but they just hadn't learned that self soothing yet. All of them had paci's until they were around 3 yrs old