5 Tips to Break the Pacifier Habit

From an early age, a pacifier (a dummy) has an important function of creating psychological comfort for the baby. But with time (after a year), it becomes very difficult but necessary to make the baby reject it.

After all, if you do not break the pacifier habit, the baby may have an overbite, and indistinct speech may develop. Food will be chewed in a bad way because of the teeth curvature: having got into the stomach in large pieces, it will create additional discomfort there. That is why you should consider in time how to break the habit of using a pacifier not to harm the baby’s health.

How to Kick the Pacifier Habit?

• Draw your baby’s attention to a toy (a rubber toy, so that it could be chewed).
• If a baby can not fall asleep without a pacifier, sing a song, pat it on the back and on the head.
• Cut a millimeter off the tip of the pacifier every day. The baby will feel how uncomfortable it becomes to suck it and will reject it.
• Compose a legend that a mouse or a dog has taken the baby’s pacifier away. Be sure to say goodbye to the pacifier so that the child knew that he/she would never have it again.
• Let the child voluntarily give the pacifier to a little kitty on the street or give it to a “bunny”. Doing it voluntarily is a guarantee that the child will consciously part with the pacifier.

These Actions Won’t Rid You of the Pacifier Habit:

• Spread mustard on a pacifier
• Fray the pacifier since it increases the risk of choking with its fragments
• Yelling at a child