At what age did you take away the pacifier?

My daughter gave it up just a few weeks ago shortly after turning 4, she only had it at bedtime but she was very attached. One morning she just came down said "dummies are for babies im throwing mine in the bin" and that was that not looked back since infact she hasnt even mentioned it! Her little sister gave her dummy up at 6 weeks old, she had used it to soothe herself for awful reflux and colic soon as they changed her milk she just didnt need the dummy anymore and she would spit it out as she didnt need to comfort herself. So every baby is different and personally im all for leaving them to drop the dummy when they are ready it makes it a little easier, although i wouldnt have let my daughter have it outside etc it was strictly bedtime only!

My first daughter was 18 months when I took it away from her and ever since she has such a hard time putting herself to sleep. For the longest time she had to have her fingers in my hair to go to sleep. She would only use it when she would go to sleep so it wasnt' so bad. My youngest is 10 months now and she never took at pacifier. I wish she would. She sucks her thumb and thats going to be harder to take from her then a pacifier. I do give her one to try and get her to use it to put herself to sleep and she just chews on it then throws it on the side lol. Shes still young but when its time I will have to figure out what works best at getting her to stop sucking her thumb. I don't want her to be 2 walking around sucking her thumb or older then that for that matter.

I never had any problems with the pacifier because all 3 of my children never had one.When they were a small baby I tried giving it to them, but they sucked to hard and the thing kept flying out of their mouth.

My kids were both about a1/2 to 2 years when they became disinterested in the pacifier. I am glad. I see kids walking around at 4 and 5 years old sucking on one. It irks me, because, without knowing what the situation is like at their home, I can't help but think the parents use it to shut them up at all times. I just shake my head.

i have two boys. our first son[who was 2] would not let go of his binkie till after his little brother was born.but our second son he did not care for the binkie too much so we did not have a problem gettingit away from him.we took our oldest son's binkies and put them in a ziplock bag and told him that we were going to give them to santa cluse and he gave them up and never asked for them again.i think that he was too old to have one as long as he did but i tried everything that i could think of to get it away from him but nothing worked until that christmas.

i guess i was lucky or something because my son never used the pacifier. we tried it with him and he did not like it. but i have a friend said she got son off the pacifier when he was about 2 or maybe a little younger.

Both my kids have used the pacifier. the older one used it only to fall asleep and I usually took it off once he was asleep. But the day my older one turned 10 months old, I just didn't use it and he was fine with it. But with my second one....he didn't take to the pacifier at first and I had to use it when we were travelling when he was a month old. And he needed it to fall asleep too...and when I tried to stop him from using it when he was around 10 months or so (I felt he was getting too dependent on it)....he wouldn't let go of the pacifier. I knew we were going to have a hard time with this one. So, when he was a year old, I tried to ease him off it and it was working well during the day because I was consistent. But my husband found it easier to put him to bed with the pacifier than rock him to sleep. So, it was harder to get him off it totally. After a couple of arguments with my husband about it and two weeks after my husband starting working late....I got the younger one to rid himself of the habit. Now he is 20 months old and he doesn't even ask for it or try to put it into his mouth when he sees it (I let it lie around the house to see if he was really out of the habit). Like you, I would prefer the pacifier to the thumb. And yes, my husband used a pacifier well beyond the age of two and his aunt (who raised him) said it was VERY hard to get him off it after that.

Well as you know, all children are different. But for my child the pacifier was never a problem. He was never attached to it so when it came time to give it up, we just threw all of them out. He never missed them at all. We even showed him one almost 8 months after we took it away from him and he didn't want anything to do with it. We stopped using it right before he turned one. He's two now. I think we were more attached to the pacifer then he was lol

My son did not give up his pacifier until he was 2 years old. He was attachd to it too much. My daughter however gave hers up on her own at 7 months old.

When my daughter turned 6 months I pulled the pacifier out already.. because i dont want her to look for the pacifier until she turns two.. thats why i always cut earlier

I do not beleive in giving a child a pacifier I have two kids and neither one of them ever had one. Babies dont want them all they do is spit them out for the parent just to shove it back in their mouth mouth again. I have always hated seeing those things in kids mouths There are ways to sooth a crying baby rather then sticking a plug in the poor things motuth.

in my first kid i took away the pacifier when he is started to pre- school, i'm convincing my kid to put away his pacifier because when he enter to school its not good for him that his classmate see that he is still using a pacifier.

I'm planning to take away the pacifier soon. I don't his teeth to buckle out. i want him to have a perfect teeth when he grow older.

after my baby is 3 monthes old, he always suck his thumb. even though he is crying, he will also try to place his thumb in his mouth. and it is very hard to calm him down when he is crying. then we decided to buy pacifier for him. seems he likes it very well. i do not know when i can let him away from pacifier. but i hope he could get rid of as soon as possible.

My son would never take a pacifier. He would spit it out and stick his thumb in his mouth. I know a lot of people don't like to see that, but I figured when you lose those binkies you're in trouble, but the thumb is always handy. He gradually stopped sucking his thumb on his own. By the time he was four he only sucked it when he was tired, and gave it up altogether by the time he was five. And his teeth are perfectly straight.

My son was around two years old when he finally did without a dummy. when he was little he screamed a lot and we had to rely on his dummy but as he grew older, he settled down and gradually we were able to wean him off.

My first two I never gave them a pacifier. And they were just fine. With my third I gave him one because the first couple months of his life he was sick, and used it when I couldn't give him his bottle. But once he got better it wasn't hard to take him off of the pacifier.

i dont remember... it all went by quite fast actually. as u would expect it