[baby] we called it a nuky and just the other day after a talk that had happened the day before with her dad and watching a video of herself as a baby with the nuky- she "out of the blue" proclaimed that she was a "big girl and didn't need a nuky anymore". *sniff* she headed for the trsh and I told her that was great but that she needed to "count the cost" sort to speak. That if it went in the trash it was gone for good. She threw it away with confidence. That night (now 2 nights ago) was hard and last night was hard to as it settled in that the nuk was gone for good even at bed time. God was good to her though. Just a few days earlier I'd lost my place on another mama board because of my christian views (it was not a christian board) and was really feeling the hole that was left in my life so, I knew JUST HOW SHE FELT. I snuggled up close to her in bed and rubbed her back while she cried herself to sleep. Tonight was night #3 and she matter-of-fact acknowledged her nuky as gone at bedtime and that was it. *sniff again* what a big girl. It was REALLY good to see it go but, at the same time it's been her life long "buddy" and it was surprisingly enough a hard thing to go through for us too. God is good.
What are your late toddler/preschool pacifier experiences? -ren

I have none...my son never took a pacifier. He is thumb sucker, so I guess we will cross that road when it is time :wink:

Wow, that's awesome! I FEAR taking my son's binkie! LOL, he's so attached and it's theraputic for us BOTH when he has it usually! :lol: He's 2.5 years though and it's time for it to go...I hope my transition goes as smoothly as yours! I'm worried though! It's totally his security and even when it's not in his mouth...he has to carry it with him! :shock:

I know how you are feeling. My youngest ds gave his pacie up w/no problem. But his "My" (his blanket, as he calles it) is going to be a different story. He will probably have to take it to school w/him in this backpack!! :lol: He is only 19mos old though, so I've got a while to work on it. It is a big step for both kids and parents. My oldest ds didn't have any attachments, so this is a first for me too!

Both of our kids were done with theurs when they were about 1. They both only liked one pacifier and when that one got lost, they wouldn't take any others. We had a few rough nights but then they forgot about it and were fine. A lot harder to keep them quiet in church though! :lol:

My dd was about 3 1/2 years old as well. I thought she would never give up her pacy. But she developed a rash (unrelated, I believe) on her chin and I told her that we really needed to put pacy away to see if the rash would go away because it (the rash) was bothering her. She agreed that it was a good idea. Three nights later and no pacy she only mentioned it two times (I think) and that was it. She was an extremely big girl and it was so sad to see her pacy go. She has been acting like a big girl every since. I think giving up the pacy somehow made her grow a bit too. :( But I know it is all part of seeing your little ones grow older and there is nothing we can do to keep them little longer. *sniff*

Trent wouldn't take one but Autumn loved her "my" as she called it. She would say "my my" when she wanted it. Everyone told me I would have a terrible time getting it away from her but we didn't. When she was about 2 1/2 we told her that when she lost her last "my" then there would be no more and that's what happened. She never missed it--PTL! Stephanie :D

Our eldest son had a dummy until he was 10 months old. One day at nap time, after I had wrapped him up, he looked me right in the eye, thrust his arms out of the wrap, and spat out the dummy. I popped it back in again, he spat it out again. So, I put him in his cot, and walked out. He shut his eyes and went to sleep :lol: And that was it :)

Our youngest son never would take one :?

I tried to give my son one when he was a baby and he wouldn't take it... it didn't occur to me to try with my daughter :lol: :lol:

My ods was very attached to his nuky. One summer night when he couldn't find any of them we realized he had collected them in the backyard where he was fake mowing the lawn for us. We had to find flashlights and both my dh and I looked for quite a while before we found them. We wondered what it looked like we were doing to the neighbors :lol: Ds could then go to sleep.

Later the rubber was wearing thin in places ( cracks) and he asked why. We told him because he was getting to be a big boy and didn't need to put it in his mouth anymore now that he knew how to talk like a big person, holding the nuky was fine. He only kept them in his bed then, slept on them, pushed them out beside the bed, and eventually we collected them in our dresser drawer as they were pushed under the bed where he couldn't see them and didn't seem to miss them. We were able to throw them out then, though we saved them for several months just to be sure he wouldn't have a panic attack. He just lost interest in them because he was a big boy

Have to say, we love looking at the pictures of him contentedly doing things as a toddler with the nuky in his mouth. He was very quiet, not much to say, smiles peeked out the sides when he was happy or laughing. God knew we needed a break from the other two who constantly talked, demanded our attention and weren't above yelling to get it! :lol:

You'll probably look back on his nuky days with fondness too.

My ods was very attached to his nuky. One summer night when he couldn't find any of them we realized he had collected them in the backyard where he was fake mowing the lawn for us. We had to find flashlights and both my dh and I looked for quite a while before we found them. We wondered what it looked like we were doing to the neighbors :lol: Ds could then go to sleep.

Later the rubber was wearing thin in places ( cracks) and he asked why. We told him because he was getting to be a big boy and didn't need to put it in his mouth anymore now that he knew how to talk like a big person, holding the nuky was fine. He only kept them in his bed then, slept on them, pushed them out beside the bed, and eventually we collected them in our dresser drawer as they were pushed under the bed where he couldn't see them and didn't seem to miss them. We were able to throw them out then, though we saved them for several months just to be sure he wouldn't have a panic attack. He just lost interest in them because he was a big boy

Have to say, we love looking at the pictures of him contentedly doing things as a toddler with the nuky in his mouth. He was very quiet, not much to say, smiles peeked out the sides when he was happy or laughing. God knew we needed a break from the other two who constantly talked, demanded our attention and weren't above yelling to get it! :lol:

You'll probably look back on his nuky days with fondness too.

thanks for this- it was sweet=) your search story made me laugh and reminded me of the days when she'd loose the nuk behind her crib and sometimes they'd get stuck between the crib and the wall and in the middle of the night she'd wake me, crying, needing her nuky. I'd jump out of bed and dive under the crib because there was a limited time table where if she didn't get the nuk she'd be up for a while- *sigh* those were the days :lol:

We had gotten rid of ds' binkies 2 weeks ago, except at nighttime for now...well we forgot to mention it to my mil and she happened to bring a big ol' value pack of binkies :o . Ds took one look at it and squealed "beeky" and ripped the package open. Sigh. He's 20 months so we've still got time, but he's been pretty good about sticking to the "binky lives in the crib now" rule.

:D Both my kid's took "soosies" and got rid of them around age 3. We would keep cutting the end of the soother shorter & shorter. Then they had nothing to suck on anymore. :D

that's just mean- genious but, mean :twisted: :lol:

dd still has her foo-foo. Dh and I joke that she will be the only high school graduate walking across the stage with a foo-foo in her mouth. It's nice to her other stories and know there is hope that it will be gone one day. :D

Friday night dd threw away all her foo-foo's, pacifiers. We are night 3 without them and all is well so far. As a reward we bought her a sled just in time for a large snow storm. She rides on her sled saying, "I have no more foo-foo's and I got sled." Sniff, [baby] :cry:, she is growing up so fast.

yay!!! for no more foo-foo's! sympathetic hug for mama and papa and the ever increasing problem of a girl growing up=) -ren

Heard a great line from a Mom of 8 and one on the way today...She doesn't worry about taking binkies away...she's sure they won't go with them to college, so not to worry! :lol:

that's great that she did that all on her own. we had to do a work getting my middle one to give his up. but he did.

I praise God that Audrey caught a cold when she was about 9 months old and couldn't take her pacifier (we called it a nummy) and breathe. After the cold passed, I tried to give it to her again, but she wanted nothing to do with it. Tory has never wanted anything to do with one. And I'm sooooo grateful that I have never had to fight any Nummy Wars, because I know what a softie I am! My daughters would be six years old and still sucking on them, lol!

No pacy for us here! Just round the clock nursing and lots of finger sucking. Which hopefully she'll grow out of before she gets to college....

Our Dd wouldn't take a "nuk-um" for the first few months of life...she only wanted to nurse....but I went to the lactation lady for another problem and she tried to give Dd one of those green paicifiers that they use in hospitals and by golly she took it! It gave us a few minutes to get out of somewhere if she was getting worked up. She never really took to them though as a comfort thing for long. When she started getting older, she would wake up when I unlatched her from my breast when I was trying to put her to bed, so I would exchange my breast for a nuk-um and that worked well for a while, but eventually she figured out what I was doing and refused to have anything to do with them. Now at 15 months she likes to take them away from babies or her friends and suck/chew on them, and occasionally we will give her one of our "put away" nuk-ums and she chews on it and sucks a bit, but if she knows she's going to nurse, boy that thing flies across the room! Haahaa. I guess I could say that I am Dd pacifier...she would nurse all day if I let her come and go as she pleased....which I pretty much do if we are not too busy. ;-)

Amber

Our 18-month-old son still takes his binky. My husband thinks it's funny that he throws it OUT of his crib, because we never go in to get it. (He falls asleep without it.) He calls it the baby's own "self-discipline."