Children are not only boundless happiness and joy, but also a lot of troubles, from which the parents' head is spinning. And, in order to give themselves a five-minute break, they choose the most ordinary dummy as their assistants. But as time goes on, the kid gets used to his new "friend" and does not part with her 24/7, making loud scandals about her absence. This is where the thought comes to parents: it's time to wean the child from the dummy. But what to do, because he is so much accustomed to her that he will not give her up even with a fight!
Why does a baby get used to a dummy
The sucking reflex is one of the main ones in a newborn. Mothers know that after the baby is born, it is almost immediately applied to the mother's breast in order to check this very sucking reflex and control it in the future, while the mother and the child are in the hospital under the supervision of doctors. It is in this reflex that the child's further ability to eat with appetite and develop correctly lies.
Breastfed babies can easily do without a pacifier - just kiss the breast. But artificial people or those who began to wean from breastfeeding, begin to drag everything that comes to hand into their mouths in order to calm the nerves by sucking on something. Most often, the child's own fingers become the object of sucking, and this is a direct risk of contracting some kind of infection.
The cause of strong addiction can be a serious illness that the baby recently suffered. During this difficult period, the dummy calmed him down when he felt bad, so he became very attached to it.
In a stressful situation, the "silicone friend" was always there and calmed him down, so the child does not want to part with him.
Parents are very tired of constant feeding, games, walks, bathing, so they sometimes want to spend at least five minutes in silence, without the baby's screams. How to calm him down? That's right, push the pacifier into your mouth. In other words, parents themselves teach their child to nipple, thereby complicating their life.
When to start weaning a child off of a ticket
Most kids give up a dummy when they are 1 or 2 years old. But there is nothing to be happy about, because you need to start weaning from as early as three months, and you need to have time to do it up to a year! During this period, it is easiest to speed up the weaning process, because the older the child becomes, the harder it is to accustom him to something, or vice versa, to wean him.
The most interesting thing is that many lyalki are ready to part with the dummy themselves in the period from three to six months, but, unfortunately, not all mothers notice this. But during this period, weaning from the nipple is less traumatic for the baby.
So if you notice that your baby is more interested in something, take a moment and hide the pacifier away, keeping your baby interested in the new object.
How to wean your toddler from a dummy
For a certain age, there is a method. If you started the process of weaning from a dummy at an early stage, then we will start with a gentle method that is applied from a year to a year and a half.
Smooth dummy rejection
This technique assumes a positive result within three weeks.
The smooth technique includes a number of rules that must be strictly followed in order to achieve the desired result within the desired time frame:
If you take all of the above measures, soon your baby will forget about his "silicone friend".
Abrupt rejection of a dummy
The second technique is already intended for children from one and a half years and older, and it consists in a sharp rejection of the dummy. At this age, children are already beginning to understand their parents well, so do not be afraid of this name.
This technique offers you three options for action, you need to choose one of them:
- The bottom line is that your child already realizes that he has become an adult and he no longer needs her. But the baby, which has recently been born, clearly needs a dummy. Therefore, it will not be difficult for the kid to part with his "old friend".
- Explain to your baby that the little fish that cries really needs his pacifier; or a bunny-bunny, which only a dummy can save from the angry Barmaley.
- Only this option is suitable only for calm kids who will not throw a scandal on their parents for this action.
After you say goodbye to the dummy, be sure to give your child something interesting and good. And tell your child, only one hundred independent big children play with such valuable toys.
