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Pacifiers/Binkies

My daughter is 21 months old and still uses a pacifier…

She doesn’t get it during the day, just for bedtime. My plan is to wean her off by 2 years old, but I don’t know how to approach it more than I have.

Most of the time when I asked people about pacifiers their response is “stop it cold turkey” which means take it away and never give it back, and I tried that but I just couldn’t deal with it because my daughter knows what her binky is, and she relies on it for bedtime. When I tried to take it away the first time she literally just cried and said “want bobo, want bobo” (she calls her pacifier bobo) and it made me feel like I wasn’t listening to her words when she was communicating what she needed from me.

Is anyone else having this issue? And if so, how did you go about it?”

Also I was wondering if it will have an effect on her speech development.

Again she only gets it at bedtime and I am trying to find other ways to wean her off of it instead of just taking it away in a few months—when she still won’t be able to understand why I won’t give it to her.

Any tips are appreciated! 😊

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