[belindarama]

I agree that you are probably more worried about it than you need to be.

I was quite anxious about getting rid of DS1's dummy.

We talked it up for a while and found out what he would like as a special extra present from Santa in return for the dummies. On Christmas Eve he didnt even ask for a dummy and has never mentioned them since. No drama whatsoever.

Although, he did point out to me the other day that DS2's thumb "is just like a dummy for him but one that no one can ever take away". Too cute... Now anyone got advice on stopping a thumb sucker?

[bluecardigans]

huge dummy addiction here. We went cold turkey with lots of big boy presents. All over in 2 days. The worst was 1 hr of being upset. DS loves telling everyone about it, he is extremely proud of himself.

And they look so cute sleeping without their dummies!

[rachb81]

I am on night 3 of my almost 3 year old without a dummy. For months I have been trying to ditch it but the "dummies are for babies" got responses "im a baby" and the prospect of buying new toys/diggers/dinasours worked until we actually put him in bed then he cried & said he didnt want anything just his dummy. We decorated an envelope & put them inside to leave for the dummy fairy but when I left the envelope he grabbed it back & took them.

In the end the other night I decided that was it. I took them away & said they were gone. Put him to bed & told him he would be fine without them & just to lay in bed & he would fall asleep. Yes there was crying but I kept coming back to his room saying time to sleep, dummys are gone. within 10 or so mins he was asleep.

1st night he woke up twice & I gave him cuddle, stayed with him till he was settled & relaxed then back to bed. In the morning he found a stash of lollies/chocolates from the dummy fairy next to his bed.

Last night he woke up three times but again went back to sleep without too much fuss. Today we went to the shop & he got to choose a present.

Tonight he cried again for a couple of mins but only asked for dummy once....lets see how many times he wakes up tonight.

Think you just have to draw a line in the sand, say thats it they are gone & no going back no matter what the circumstances.

Good luck

[**Mel**]

DD will be 3 in June. The dummy fairy is coming tonight!

We had been talking it up for awhile and she actually was the one to suggest the Easter Bunny take the dummies. But, we were going away with friends for Easter and there was no way I wanted to deal with a grumpy, dummy-less girl!

So, today we talked about it again. Got an empty basket and rounded up all the dummies (14 ). Put them in her toy kitchen and wrote a letter to the dummy fairy. We also asked the Dummy Fairy to have a chat to Easter Bunny in case he had any left-over eggs LOL (we have stacks left over from easter!)

So far so good tonight. She went straight to sleep, a little bit sad, but cuddled into her dora doll. She usually wakes and rolls over in the early hours looking for a spare dummy, so that will be the test.

Fingers are crossed!

[jcbenny]

My SIL told her daughter that the mouse took her dummy... For some reason she just stopped asking for it since. Although she now has very crooked teeth .

[gabbigirl]

WE told our 3 yo that the dummy fairy was going to take her dummy. Her response "The dummy fairy died".

She won that round. She still has her dummy.

[**Mel**]

Well DD went to bed fine last night as I posted earlier. She woke at 10:45pm looking for her dummy and took some persuading (10 mins) to go back to sleep without it. Then she woke again at 12ish and took 5 mins to settle.

This morning the dummy fairy had left the 'elefun' butterfly game and the easter bunny had come back with some left over eggs. All good

She asked for her dummy several times today but was ok with being reminded she is a big girl

Tonight she took 20 mins to settle (usually only 5-10 to get her to sleep), so she was missing her dummy. I had to pat her to sleep and now have my fingers crossed that she stays that way!

[*lil*chil*]

Good job! We recently took the step with our 2.5yr old. After a couple of weeks of taking about 30 mins to get to sleep and some pretty major tantrums it's now not an issue - stick to your guns you can do it!!
You will be so happy not to do the dummy search scramble every bed time!!