Do you use a pacifier for your kid?

MelsAuntie
MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
in Chit-Chat
Okay, the leash/reins thread was entertaining. How about this; do you usually have a pacifier stuck in your kid's face, and at what age do you think, "Ewww, that kid is too old for a pacifier!"

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  • arathena720
    arathena720 Posts: 449 Member
    My son had a pacifier until around walking age. I think once they're walking it's time to try and get them to give it up.
  • mrsamanda86
    mrsamanda86 Posts: 869 Member
    MY older son got rid of his at year old, and my younger was allowed his until everyone annoyed me enough that I just took it away from him at around 2 years old.

    People need to mind their own ****ing business, and not bug the crap out of others with what they feel is best on things that don't matter. I was forced into upsetting my kid because people were constantly tormenting him by taking away his binky, even though the dentist had said it was completely fine for him to have it.
    Everyone thinks they know what's best for your kid, gotta love it!
  • bunnybutler29
    bunnybutler29 Posts: 291
    My kids had a "BINKY" for about two months and that's probably longer than when they really used it. It was just when they were first born. I fought with the maternity nurses to not give my kids pacifiers, but they said they do it anyways cuz it will keep the babies quiet while they work. I am against giving it to them for long periods, because I think its a bad habit, but to each his own right?
  • salladeve
    salladeve Posts: 1,053 Member
    I guess we see what you think about it. I don't see anything distasteful about it if the child seems to enjoy it and it calms them.

    You do sound a little judgmental though.
  • walleyclan1
    walleyclan1 Posts: 2,784 Member
    We didn't do pacifiers for our kids.

    I assume there is an age at which drs and dentist recommend stopping?
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    my first one point blank refused to have anything to do with either pacifiers or bottles of expressed milk. She wanted boobs. No fake nipples for her, no way.

    The second would take expressed milk from a bottle, but only if i wasn't there. If I was, she wanted the real thing. Ditto pacifiers.

    and yes i breastfed them in public. In fact one was breastfed outside Harrods in Heathrow Airport on one occasion. (haha there's another debate, public breastfeeding)

    as for pacifiers, I have nothing against them, it would have been nice if my babies actually hadn't refused to have anything to do with any kind of fake nipple.

    But then breastfeeding is great, it's so the lazy option for mothers, i mean no bottles to sterilise and no formula to prepare, no bag of formula paraphernalia to lug around with you, just milk, on tap, put your feet up and feed your baby kind of milk supply. Because of course that's how mothers make their parenting decisions, what's the lazy option, it's never an informed choice about what's best for the safety and welfare of their child in the situation that they're in (which differs from family to family)[/sarcasm]

    ETA: sarcasm directed against some of the people in the "leash/reins" thread
  • Sapporo
    Sapporo Posts: 693 Member
    My youngest used a sucky until she was around 8 months old and just wouldn't take it anymore. My oldest threw hers out when she was around 18 months old.
    When I see bigger kids with them I don't think anything bad of it. Kids are different and some need pacifiers longer than others. I would rather see a 3 year old with a sucky in their mouth than hear them squawk and scream.
  • Kirstyw871
    Kirstyw871 Posts: 216 Member
    He had one when he was younger, I forgot to give him it once when he was 6 months old and he went to sleep without it, so I never bothered giving it him again.

    He slept better without it, because he wasn't waking up all the time because it had fallen out.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    We used them. Each child was done by age 3. We told them for 6 months or so leading up to their birthdays that 3-year-olds don't use pacifiers. It was an easy transition.
  • metaphoria
    metaphoria Posts: 1,432 Member
    My kids were anti plastic or thumb. Very pro breast.

    I was three when we were on a family road trip and my dad decided I was too old for a pacifier and threw it out the car window.
  • tekwriter
    tekwriter Posts: 923 Member
    my kids were breast fed and refused the binky. I despise those things covering up a childs face but to each his own i guess.
  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
    My first 3 used them, my last baby didn't. I think 2 years old was when they gave it up. Yes, my mother in law made comments against using them. She also made a lot of other comments regarding anything else we do that she doesn't agree with. We don't care what others think about how we take care of our kids :smile:
  • Madame_Goldbricker
    Madame_Goldbricker Posts: 1,625 Member
    My mum chose not to use a dummy on me. Roll on extensive dental work ages 7-16 (tooth removal,removal braces, one with a tightening screw, head brace, & fixed braces). I still have an artificially high palate and to be honest my teeth are still very on the wonk :angry: I sucked my thumb up until my early teens in my sleep. I used to pull my brace out in my sleep & in went the thumb.

    When I had my daughter I got her onto a dummy soon as I could. She used them till approx. age 3. She has a lovely set of gnashers on her now. However, that was purely to do with the issues I had myself, and I think it's totally parental personal choice.

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