r/Mommit • u/ungratefuldaughter_ • 6d ago

We took the paci and he grew up overnight.

The title, that’s it. I’m not okay 😭

His speech exploded, he’s playing more independently and sleeping great. He’s 22 months and we wanted to make sure we got rid of it before 2. He’s doing so well without it 🥹

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u/Salt_Cobbler9951 6d ago

Isn’t hearing your toddlers talk the cutest thing? I’m in the beginning stages of weaning from paci and I’m oddly sad about it lol means my baby isn’t a baby anymore

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u/ungratefuldaughter_ 6d ago

Losing the paci meant my baby is becoming a little boy! I was so worried about his teeth getting messed up.

We moved to sleep only pretty much cold turkey. He seemed fine with that. So he was sleep only for a few months. Then we did the Freida baby weaning system and he was over it in less than a week.

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u/Helpful-Tadpole-6985 5d ago

How did you manage to do it?? Tips please!

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u/ungratefuldaughter_ 5d ago

He was heavily dependent on it for sleep but didn’t care much throughout the day so that was an easy transition. But nighttime was hard. When he wakes up, we started to offer milk or snack immediately and trade the paci for something else. Make it go away until nap time/bed time. We bought the Frieda baby weaning system and it worked like a charm. Maybe even a little quicker for us.

He always had a handful scattered around his crib. We cut that down to 2, one in mouth, one in hand. We gave him step 1 and 2 at the same time, the next night 2 and 3 and so on. then by the time we tried to give him step 5, he was over it. He never had a nipple/paci preference though. He would take any bottle, any paci. His normal one was a completely different style than the Frieda baby ones, he just didn’t seem to care.

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u/boopin14 5d ago

How did you do it?! My 18 month old uses her for sleep and I’d like to stop it soon too!

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u/ungratefuldaughter_ 5d ago

I pasted this on another comment too but wanted to be sure you saw it!

He was heavily dependent on it for sleep but didn’t care much throughout the day so that was an easy transition. But nighttime was hard. When he wakes up, we started to offer milk or snack immediately and trade the paci for something else. Make it go away until nap time/bed time. We bought the Frieda baby weaning system and it worked like a charm. Maybe even a little quicker for us.

He always had a handful scattered around his crib. We cut that down to 2, one in mouth, one in hand. We gave him step 1 and 2 at the same time, the next night 2 and 3 and so on. then by the time we tried to give him step 5, he was over it. He never had a nipple/paci preference though. He would take any bottle, any paci. His normal one was a completely different style than the Frieda baby ones, he just didn’t seem to care.

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u/rosequartz-universe 5d ago edited 5d ago

I snipped off the very tip of the paci and kept increasing the size of the cut every few nights. Eventually they stop reaching for it and pick up other self soothe methods, like talking to themselves or rubbing a blanket or lovey on their face.

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u/kiwi-shortalls 5d ago

Same! I’m going to think of him as a baby until he’s 2 , but man, the paci is soo babyish it’ll be sad to see that icon of babyhood go.

But also so excited to hear what he has to say and see him learn new skills every day.

I wonder if my own mom thought of me differently like this at different stages, particularly me becoming a mom.