what age do you perosnally think a child should stop using a dummy?

Around 2-3 i think unless they are prepared to give it up earlier. Theres nothing worse that seeing a 3+ child with a dummy in, although i will say i struggled with my daughter and she went to thumb sucking instead which you cant take off them.

Most kids will grow out of needing a soother in their own time.

Same Mara, Paris never took to a dummy, and since age of 1 n a half, has thumb sucked, got blisters and everything

Adam dont seem to have took to dummy either, hope he dont thumb suck x

I would prob say 2-3 too, and only indoors at that point.

Aimee has never really taken her dummy out with her and it has always been a bed time thing, but that was her choice, not ours.

I aim to start getting her off it at about 2, but if it doesnt happen that quickly then I would like to think she will have dropped it by the time she gets her first boyfriend.... which will be 30 if James has his way! lol! x

Im gonna try with C at 20 months at xmas. Im hoping cos she has her bedtime bunny she might find the transition easier. I hate seeing really big kids with them. C gets hers for sleepies only now or the odd day like today when her teeth are really sore. I rarely even put em in the changing bag.

I have to say though slightly OT i hate it when ppl say things like 'why are you giving her that' - er cos shes my kid and i made the choice it was ok for her to have onewhen she needed a comforter rather than have her sucking a thumb - MY KID MY WAY SHUT THE FECK UP

I think once they old enough to give them to you themselves (like asking them to give it up - for the dummy fairy or for other babies who need them) lol so I guess the same ages 2-3.
I was a thumb sucker and now have one thumb longer than the other and my teeth are a bit sticky out because of it. it was so hard giving up thumb sucking so Id rather Tyler have a dummy that I can take away then a thumb which unfortunately I can't...

same 2-3, and only for night time at that age, oliver only has his for sleep time now...with leo the dummy fairy took it when he was nearly 3 for tiny babys who didnt have a dummy i shall be doing the same with oliver, i agree there is nothing worse than seeing older kids woith dummys...my cousine had one till she was 10 and it looked awful x

i never wanted to give ava a dummy but she would have been permanently attached to me if i hadnt, she only uses it now when she's sleepy but i know what you mean about some people Mario, i was in a shop a few months back and i put her dummy in and this woman said really loudly what you doing that for I hate seeing little girls with dummies in! I didnt even know the woman, i was absolutely furious.

Like others have said, 2-3 (hopefully). Rosie only has hers for sleeping now and we keep them in her bedroom, so she can't just put them in as she feels like. We've visited a farm where babies/toddlers can leave their unwanted dummies and they string them up in the pigs barn and say they're for the piglets to suckle on, so the mummy pigs can get some sleep. Once she understands something like that, we can work towards giving it up.

soon as they turn 1 i take the dummy away

im a mean mummy!

pinkyd wrote:

i never wanted to give ava a dummy but she would have been permanently attached to me if i hadnt, she only uses it now when she's sleepy but i know what you mean about some people Mario, i was in a shop a few months back and i put her dummy in and this woman said really loudly what you doing that for I hate seeing little girls with dummies in! I didnt even know the woman, i was absolutely furious.

See id have gone nuts at her. Last person to make a comment now shits out of a second arsehole

I would have liked Abbie to have given up hers by now but not such luck she really loves hers. She is teething at the moment and it really does give her great comfort to have one.

I do try to limit it to nap and bed times, but if she spots one or sees another kid with one, or just needs some comfort I let her have one.

xx

You see everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I don't agree with any child at the age of Nursery with a dummy still in their mouth but that's just my opinion. As it stops there speech. Imogen stopped having her dummy at 14mths old! Two months before her brother Arrived last year. Told her only babies have dummies and now she is nearly 3 sees one on the floor and gives it to Andrew. Andrew hardly ever uses his...only ever uses it for sleeping

I think probably the same 2-3, definitely before they start pre school!

I bought loads for Izzy, but she wouldn't take to it - she has always had StinkerNoo her nunu and I will never try to take that away as she only has it for sleeping so it can't do any harm to keep that - so maybes dummy too if its only bedtime, although i dont know of the teeth implications?

alasdair has his nunu too, he replaced it for dummies.

nunu???

little comfort blankets like this

i would also say 2 or 3 but if i thought he was ready earlier i wud try it then. i think xmas with the dummy fairy wud be the best time. i think i might try next christmas. alfie will be about 20 months. he only really gets it for naps during the day now and if his teeth are giving him hassle.

I agree with 2-3 years old. I would prefer sooner rather than later but Thomas never has it any where other than his cot so I'm not overly bothered. They live under his pillow and he knows to get it if he wants it and also to put it back when he wakes up. He wouldn't understand the whole 'dummy fairy' thing yet but as soon as he does the fairies will be taking it away.

Hannah had one for a week or so when I changed her from bf to formula but wont have it now and sucks on her arm to get herself to sleep.

xx

as for a nunu i had them for both kids and not one of them used them or needed them x

Aimee has a nunu but we call him Raggy because I hate it. James got it for her when she was in hossie and it used to prop her tubes and lines up so she has grown obsessed by it.

She will prob be sleeping with it in 10 years time!! X

the hv told me to use a nunu to get ava off her dummy and now she sleeps with both.

Alfies got a comforter too. Hes called blue bear. We used it at first to prop alfies dummie in when he was little cos he wud always spit it out. Now he will only sleep with it over his face and tickles his nose with the tag when hes tired!!

Wil has dummies in his cot for bedtime only and they are not allowed downstairs unless he is ill.

Father Christmas is swapping Wil's dummy for a scooter.

I am another one who hates to see children running round with a dummy in their mouth and if Wil tries to talk with his dummy in I just say 'I can't understand you with your dummy in take it out' and I refuse to answer him until he does.

I did try taking it away a few weeks ago and the poor child had his bed apart looking for it.

I'd say about 2 at the latest. I took Elsie's of her at about 13 months just went cold turkey with it. She has been fine without it.x