29 Jan 2012 - 23 mths plus
For those who are looking at this post, and has a child who still is still using pacifier, pls pls pls kick your child's habit as early as possible.
The reason why i decided to stop xx from using pacifier is because she has been relying too much on it. Whenever she gets into our car, she will ask for pacifier even though it's not her napping time.
So what we did..
We let her used the cut pacifer (Picture below) for about 1 week. She is totally clueless on what's going on.
On her first day - i cut a very small hole at the bottom of the pacifier teat, i tried it, still works like a normal pacifier.
2nd day - i cut the top of the pacifier teat ( Picture below), this time round, i tried and it is a totally "Lou Fong" pacifier. XX was puzzled, but she merely took out the pacifier, took a 2nd look at it, and put back into her mouth.. lol..
Warning, when using this method, meaning ur child will be sucking in air, so if you are not comfortable, please do not use this method.
On the 5th day - i cut it even shorter, so short until she had problem keeping the pacifier in the mouth. When she was not lying down on the bed, meaning sitting up right or standing, the pacifer will drop out.
On the 8th day - Daddy cut it REAL short, totally impossible to use it. On our way out, we hold on to the pacifer, asked her to throw into the dustbin bcos it's too short, she refused at first, but after a while, she volunteered to throw, so while we were walking to the carpark, she threw it into the carpark's dustbin.
20 Jan 2012 is the date that she threw her pacifier away!! After that day, she still ask for pacifier, but all we have to do is to remind her that she threw away the pacifier into the dustbin, den she had no choice but to bear with it.
The process is not easy. She tossed and cried during nap and sleeping time. But we know it is a matter of time to go through this, so we just had to endure with it.
From Mummy Soh
