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Before you had your baby and you saw other babies and toddlers with pacifers in their mouth you thought to yourself: when you have a baby you will not use pacifers. Then one day when you have your own baby and nothing else has seems to work to make them stop crying and calm down you decide to use the pacifer or nuckie like they're
sometimes called. Suddenly after your baby takes the pacifer all you hear is just a sucking sound. You then find yourself not going anywhere without this pacifer.
You then have the dilema that your baby is hooked on the pacifer. Then one year later when your child is still sucking on the pacifer. Even the dentist doesn’t like seeing it because it is bad for children’s teeth to suck on a pacifer. You then realize that the pacifer has to go.
Well you decided that your going to take the pacifer away from your child. Keep in mind it won’t be easy there will be a lot of crying and begging from your child for the pacifer but if you be patient and stick with your decision the pacifer will soon be a thing of the past.
Make sure you start out slowly. Some ways to make the transition from your child needing the pacifer to not needing it are to just to give the child the pacifer at night. Refuse to give it to the child during the day. By doing this they will slowly get used to not needing the pacifer.
Just like people do to get children to stop biting their nails you could put something on the pacifer’s rubber part that wouldn’t be an appealing taste to the child. So eventually they wouldn’t suck on the pacifer because they wouldn’t like the taste. Make sure whatever you put on the pacifer is safe for your child and doesn’t have any harmful effects.
You could also offer the child a different item that they could use to comfort themselves in exchange for the pacifer, like getting them a stuffed animal or toy.
The last suggestion might seem cruel but sometimes it’s the only way: to take something away that a child depends on. Let the child cry, eventually they will cry themselves to sleep. After a time they will forget about their pacifer.
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