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Pacifiers, Bottles, and Breastfeeding: Easy Ways to Wean
Your baby's beloved Binky may actually reduce the risk of SIDS (the sucking activity keeps her from sleeping too deeply), which is why the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using it at naptime and bedtime for the first year. But prolonged pacifier use can lead to ear infections or alterations to your child's bite.
When to wean: Pediatrician Tanya Remer Altmann, M.D., says it's ideal to wean your toddler off her pacifier between 8 and 12 months. Replace the pacifier with a small blanket or stuffed animal.
How to do it: For babies, most pediatricians recommend cold turkey. In the long run it's easier on both you and your baby. After about age 2, do it gradually. Start by limiting its use to certain places (bed), then only during certain times (sleep), until it's gone for good.
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"Cold Turkey" means to just stop one day with out giving it back. "WEANING" is "actions of a person who gives up a habit/ gradually easing the process through reduction or by using replacement." as stated above by another poster.
9/29/2011 03:34:41 PM Report AbuseWhat do you do about thumbs? I can't get rid of that. I am not sure I want to, because he calms himself down with it.
5/2/2011 01:41:31 PM Report AbuseCOLD TURKEY MEANS actions of a person who gives up a habit/ gradually easing the process through reduction or by using replacement.
3/3/2011 08:05:49 AM Report Abusewhat is the meaning of (cold turkey)???
2/15/2011 02:02:45 PM Report AbuseThere is different advice on this topic in another article called "When Babies Should Kick Their Habits".
6/16/2010 12:37:02 PM Report Abuse