I never used a pacifier with The Older One. She's a thumb-sucker. I was really rather snobby when it came to pacifiers and didn't want my kids using them, no matter how many times I heard "It's easier to get rid of a pacifier than a thumb". Then The Little One came along. She had colic. I had a few life events. She got a pacifier. And we were all so happy.
Like many babies, she came to rely on the "binky" whole-heartily. She needed it to soothe herself all the time. When she wanted it, she would tap her lips twice and say "bink-binks". And I gladly gave it to her. After months and months and months, I knew I'd need to start considering weaning her off it it. So this past week,bat twenty months of age and much later than I ever thought I would let her keep it, I decided to simply throw all her pacifiers in the trash. There was no binky-fairy. There was no binky tree. There was simply a question "Can I throw your binkies away?" to which an answer was emphatically returned "Noooooooo!". I threw them away nonetheless while she watched me, she cried a bit, I gave her a sucker, and the rest is {hopefully} history.
I actually pulled the pacifiers out of the garbage and threw them in a cupboard "just in case". I also didn't want her digging through the garbage looking for them. She's asked for her "bink-binks" several times over the past four days, but I gently remind her we threw them away and then say "Yay, Little One! You are such a big girl!" If someone asks her what happened to her pacifier, she says "Bye, bye." Then she fakes a cry and says "sucker". Smart little kid!
Fingers crossed that we've made it through the rough part! I don't want to go back to the land of bink-binks!
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