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| My son only took the pacifer for like five minutes just to calm himself down and then he would spit it out. But I see that my best friend (who has two girls) the oldest one is going to be 4 in a couple of weeks and she still takes the pacifer and I told myself that I did not want to put myself through the headache of trying to break him of it. I just think that kids would stuck on a pacifer til their three is stupid and looks it to. Sorry if I have offended anyone parents. |
| posted by Chelle on 11/20/2007 04:11 PM |
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| We are lucky,Jillian never took to binky's or thumb sucking |
| posted by Amanda on 11/25/2007 10:52 PM |
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| Neither of my children took to pacifiers(THANK GOD!!!), but my oldest does suck on her pointer finger and she is going to be turning 3 in a few weks and it just bugs me that she sucks on her finger.She also took to a baby doll that was handed down ot her which is basically her life. As far as my youngest, she hasnt taken to a pacifier, finger, OR a toy/blankie and hope it stays that way! |
| posted by Christine on 11/28/2007 10:54 AM |
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| PJ had a pacifier till he was 11 months. Weaning him was easy, we were liberal with it so at 11 months he wanted it less so we stopped giving it to him. No problems. It's improtant for babies to have them to suck on (we didn't want him sucking when he's older and much less approripate) and great for figureing out if he was hungery. No milk comes out so he spits it out and that's how I knew to feed him or he would take it out of his mouth and look at it like why is nothing coming out and sure enough, everytime he was hungery. Now he's 18 months and hardly sucks on his fingers or anything. |
| posted by Melinda on 12/03/2007 09:53 AM |
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| I really didn't want to give him one- I tried it once and he didn't like it (thank God) and we just never gave him one again. I also don't plan to give my second child a pacifier when he/she (don't know what I'm having yet) is born. |
| posted by Renata on 12/14/2007 02:04 PM |
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| My daughter took one for a little while then refused them all together. Now, she sucks her thumb or chews on the pacifier ...I think it helps with her teething. |
| posted by kendra on 12/14/2007 03:02 PM |
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| We gave all three of our children a pacifier, in fact we encouraged it from birth. It was nice to have something to help soothe them with in between feedings and during times when they were fussy or teething. We didn't have too much trouble getting rid of them. I believe they were around two when we told the pacifier "bye bye". Our children are now 21, 18 and 17. |
| posted by Debra on 01/08/2008 09:07 PM |
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| My oldest took the pacifier, but my baby likes his thumb better. He will take it when he gets really fussy, and needs something to calm him down so he can fall asleep. But he's not glued to it like my oldest. However, my oldest was weaned of it by 18 months. |
| posted by Sam on 01/11/2008 08:13 PM |
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| i hate!!!!!!!!!!! to see 4 5 6 year olds with a PASSY!! my girl never had one and when my new boy is born he will not. |
| posted by Jamie on 01/17/2008 11:22 PM |
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| My little guy is 19 months and he only takes one when he is going to bed or nap or in the car. |
| posted by Hope on 01/18/2008 04:06 PM |
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| And to this I think I regret, although I have tried to give it to her when she was a baby, she always spit it right back out, and now 2 years later sucks her thumb which we have been trying to get her to stop. |
| posted by Melissa on 01/19/2008 12:44 AM |
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My daughter would use one when she was tiny if you held it for her and now she is 8 months and LUVS her Binky. Frankly, I love her Binky, too and am cool with her using if for many more months.
Also, some folks tell all the horror stories about babies having trouble with breastfeeding if they us a binky. Well, RoseMarie has never had a drop of formula. I nurse here when we are together, she gets bottles while at DayCare, and uses a binky all the time. We have never had any trouble with nipple confusion. She will suck anything :) |
| posted by Celeste on 01/20/2008 05:58 PM |
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| My daughter will take one only once in a while. She usually just spits it out abt every 10 seconds. She usually sucks on two fingers. She is 8 months old. I think I would rather have her suck on a passy than on her fingers but...she will only sometimes take it. Yeah I hate it when I see 4 or 5 year old sucking on a binkie too! Little too old I think. It just looks silly. |
| posted by debra on 01/24/2008 01:47 PM |
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Nap & bedtime only, when we're at home. I do let her have it in the car or stroller sometimes, but only so she's happy while I get errands or exercise done. I don't like her to have it when she's just hanging around playing, because I don't want it to interfere with her learning to speak.
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| posted by Bethany on 02/05/2008 06:55 PM |
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| My son was a thumb sucker, he never liked the pacifier. We are still working on getting him to stop sucking his thumb. He's five. |
| posted by Susan on 02/21/2008 12:15 PM |
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| After finding out that pacy babies have a lesser risk of SIDS, I made my daughter take one ... now she won't give it up!! lol :) |
| posted by Lindsey on 02/27/2008 05:35 PM |
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| My son welcomed his passy only when he was teething, it seemed to soothe him. |
| posted by connie on 03/18/2008 12:38 AM |
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| My son is only 4 1/2 months and has never liked the passy, I'm glad because I didn't want to have to break him of it, but was worried about SIDS BUT since he started teething and got his first 2 teeth he chews and sucks on his hand and thumb, I hope I can break him of this before he turns 2 because I don't want his teeth to be all messed up |
| posted by Amers on 04/21/2008 07:48 PM |
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| my daughter took one the night she was born - it was the only was we could get more that 1 hour of sleep at a time. It's not something she has to have. We give it to her when we put her to bed, when she is teething and we keep one in the carseat. She is now 12 1/2 months old and when she gets up from her naps or in the morning she takes it out and puts it in the crib till next time. I don't know when we will take it from her permantly. |
| posted by Anne on 04/22/2008 04:37 PM |
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| He took the paci for about 5 mths for a little bit at a time, but gave it up on his own at 5 1/2 mths. |
| posted by Rae on 06/09/2008 01:18 AM |
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| We gave my son one at about 2 weeks and he used it often until about 9months. Then I started only letting him have it in the car and while sleeping. This lasted longer than I antisipated due to a lot of life changes. My husband got annoyed with it though, so finally at about 18months he sat my son on his lap with the 3 remaining binks and a pair of sissors and cut the nipple of and said NO MORE! My son cryed for a minute, we gave him a toy, and he's been fine since, never wanting one or taking them from others! When our next child comes I intend to give it to him less often and hopefullt break him sooner, but we'll see. |
| posted by Penny on 06/25/2008 10:50 AM |
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| Yes, she uses all the time. She loves it. I don't know what she will do without it. |
| posted by Maria on 09/14/2008 12:21 AM |
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| My daughter only uses hers to sleep or when she's really, REALLY upset about something. |
| posted by Amber Cable on 09/14/2008 01:52 PM |
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| My son... never liked it, and never had one. My daughter LOVED it, and it became her favorite item, even named it Bubby. It was her way of soothing herself if she was upset. At the age of two, we told her the dentist said she was a big girl now, and that Bubbies wouldn't work anymore.... then I snipped a small x in the end of them and the suction they provided went away.. so she thought they didn't work.. and she threw them in the trash herself! |
| posted by Camille on 12/04/2008 12:47 PM |
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| none of my kids ever liked the pacifier, and i'm very glad that they didn't because i've seen from other parent how hard it can be to get them to give it up. |
| posted by on 12/04/2008 07:21 PM |
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| Our daughter never wanted one but our son thinks that he can't live without it for even a few minutes. |
| posted by Heather on 01/06/2009 06:10 PM |
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| Our 3 never wanted them, Thank You Lord! There aweful contraptions and very misused. |
| posted by BratPacMom on 01/12/2009 11:24 AM |
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| She preferred her fingers. |
| posted by Krista on 02/15/2009 08:58 PM |
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Not one of my 3 kiddos took a pacifier. But my oldest started sucking her thumb right before she turned 1- months after that reflex is supposed to be gone and you're supposed to be in the clear for that stuff! :P She's going to be 7 in July- and she still sucks her pointer finger on occasion. She switched to her finger once a year ago because she had cut her thumb, and then never went back to the thumb. It's very rare that she still does, but when she's very, very sleepy- like the occasional Friday night when we let the kids stay up pretty late with us- she'll start doing it sometimes still.
Let me say that she always only did it when really sleepy. And when hurt. She never really did it when in trouble or anything. Just if she got hurt, or was sleepy. And since she was 4, she cut it to just doing it at night.
I sucked my thumb until the day I started Kindergarten. And I was a total rebel. I remember my parents trying to get me to stop and I didn't just because I could. My husband and I talked about it and my daughter has shown that same attitude, so we decided early on to let this run it's course on it's own- unless a problem is presented. And she has been doing it less and less over the years. She will stop when she is ready. We have kept watch with the dentist for overbite issues, but so far so good. I do have an overbite, but am lucky that it is not very bad nor really that noticeable. |
| posted by Alisha on 02/18/2009 08:25 PM |
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| The only time my daughter took a soother what when I was in the hospital having my gallbladder removed - and my parents gave it to her, she would never take it from me. not when she knows she can nurse lol |
| posted by Cait on 03/16/2009 08:58 PM |
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| I didn't want my son to take a pacifier but he was 4 weeks early and had a hard time feeding. Despite what I wanted everyone told me I should try a pacifier. I guess he just needed a little practice... eventually he was able to master eating and using a pacifier. We took the pacifier away during the day when he was 8 months old and it was completely gone when he turned a year. It was easy to get rid of it once he didn't see it anymore he just forgot about it. |
| posted by Brittany on 09/09/2009 01:25 PM |
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I pushed the paci in hopes that neither of my girls would be finger suckers. A paci can be thrown away but fingers can't be cut off! I sucked my fingers and it was very difficult for my mom to get me to stop. I didn't want that with my kids.
My 2.5 chewed through her paci right around her 2nd bday (at that point she was only allowed to have it in bed) and that was that. She threw it away and never asked for it again. |
| posted by Rachel on 11/10/2009 02:00 PM |
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| my daughter only took a pacifier for about 3 months then gave it up . my son on the other hand had it for longer he used it until he was about 15 months then gave it up. i had no problem using it. it helped him soothe himself. he used to want it all the time but around ten months we used only when he really needed it such as when he was extremely cranky or at nap and bed time. he was having a hard time with the teething and pacifier seemed to help... |
| posted by allison on 03/27/2010 09:25 AM |
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| THANK GOD FOR THE PACIFIER! LOVE IT! |
| posted by brandi on 03/29/2010 02:45 PM |
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| My son had a pacy till he was 2. It was great for him to sooth himself in the middle of the night or when he was tired. At about 9- 10 months I really limited it to bed time. At 2 years he lost the last one behind his bed and was done. He still makes sucking noises when he sleeps sometimes. I think packed can be good as a baby, but over 2 should defiantly be gone. There is no reason why a 5 year old needs a pacy. Rediculous! |
| posted by jillian on 12/03/2011 09:39 AM |
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| My son took the Pacifier for the first 5mos, after that he switched to his thumb. When he gets tired he sucks his thumb and runs his fingers through his hair, or touches his ear. |
| posted by Drew on 09/24/2014 11:30 AM |
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