Giving dummies to Santa...

[CaptainMummy]

Is it possible?

Like does the dummy fairy etc work? Yesterday Paige seen lots of santas when we were out, and hasnt stopped talking about him since. She wants to sit on his knee and give him 'tuddles'.. (ill believe that when i see it!)
Well today i told her santa will give her lots of toys, and she seemed very excited... And i asked her if she would give santa ger dummies so she can have a special toy. She said yes, and all night has been going on avout santas dummies, and toys and sitting on his knee but what are the chances of it being a success? I think the initial handing over will be okay.. But then what?

Is is worth it? Or should we wait?

 

[welshsarah]

We are trying the same with Dylan. Going to try trading dummies for presents. Hopefully he works for both of us xx

 

[welshsarah]

We are trying the same with Dylan. Going to try trading dummies for presents. Hopefully he works for both of us xx

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[seoj]

I have 3 girlfriends that used a similar approach- they just went cold turkey with the dummies. One friend told her toddler that the garbage man needed the dummies for his little baby- and would she mind giving them away? It worked! Done. Kinda crazy. LOL. I don't recall any of them having a huge issue with it- sorry I've no personal advise. LO never took to them. But seems like a good approach

 

[OmarsMum]

I went cold turkey, I told him he's a big boy, so no more dummies as dummies are for babies. I gave him wrapped letters blocks in exchange for his dummy, we had two meltdowns, one at bedtime & another one at night, but the next night he only asked for it without crying or whining, he slept much better on day 3 & now after 10 days he forgot about the dummy.

Good luck Hun, we waited until he was done with teething & he was finally sleeping through at night.

 

[suzib76]

i preferred a dummy fairy rather than santa, i always thought christmas was too busy and stressful a time to be tackling something else. if it were me i would wait until the festivities were over as lo may need dummy more over that time to settle

 

[Baby France]

We went cold turkey with ours, but we told DD that princesses don't have dodo's. That was over a month ago and she still says it now.

My friend swears by giving dummys to Father Christmas. Apparently they wrap them up and put them under the tree, with a carrot for Rudolph and a glass of milk for Father Christmas, and he takes them for new babies?

(might even be tying them to the tree actually?)

 

[RachA]

We gave ours to Santa and it worked brilliantly - in the end lol.

We wrapped up 4 little books and gave then to Daniel and explained that santa had left the present for him and if he went to bed without his dummy that night that he could open the present. Prior to this we had talked a little bit about putting the dummy in his stocking but he didn't want to do this. Any way on Christmas day we passed him the present and asked for the dummy and he said no. As we didn't want to pressurise him we went with it. We asked him every evening for nearly a week and each time he liked the idea but wouldn't give us the dummy. All of a sudden we realised that he wasn't prepared to give his dummy up for something that he couldn't see, i guess he didn't know if the present was worth it lol. That night we let him open the present and then let him choose the books or dummy. This time he said the books. He went to bed with them and didn't wake for his dummy at all. The next night he asked for it and we asked him for the books back and straight away he said he didn't want his dummy. He's never asked for it since.
We didn't find it too stressful doing it over the Christmas period but i can see why people would rather avoid doing it then.

 

[Baby France]

Why don't you try and limit the use for now? With DS we went cold turkey - thats because one day I realised that he slept with it because I GAVE it to him and not because he asked for it.

The night he didn't ask for it, I hid them away. He never once asked for it for more than a week. He was 16 months old and when he found one, he put it in his mouth, biting it and came in laughing at me. He knew he wasn't to have it.

DD was much more dependant though. We had to limit her time. So she only had it for naps and if she happened to hurt herself. She started a princess and always wanting to be one about 2 months ago. DH took it off her while I was away for a week and she's never had it since?

Maybe limiting it, so it might make it easier for when she gives it to Father Christmas and have a few nights of trying her without it once she's got used to not having it in the day?

 

[leelee]

Apparently our local department store has a doo doo tree when you are visiting Santa and the kids get to put it on that. I need to double check this for this year though.

If it does we will be doing it a few weeks before Xmas to get it over and done with. I am dreading it TBH. DS absolutely loves his doo doo and will be devastated when it is gone

 

[RachA]

Apparently our local department store has a doo doo tree when you are visiting Santa and the kids get to put it on that. I need to double check this for this year though.

If it does we will be doing it a few weeks before Xmas to get it over and done with. I am dreading it TBH. DS absolutely loves his doo doo and will be devastated when it is gone

Just to say - my son was totally obsessed with his and i dreaded it but i left it until i knew he'd understand what we were doing and he accepted it 100%.

 

[leelee]

Apparently our local department store has a doo doo tree when you are visiting Santa and the kids get to put it on that. I need to double check this for this year though.

If it does we will be doing it a few weeks before Xmas to get it over and done with. I am dreading it TBH. DS absolutely loves his doo doo and will be devastated when it is gone

Just to say - my son was totally obsessed with his and i dreaded it but i left it until i knew he'd understand what we were doing and he accepted it 100%.

Thanks for that RachA

Max is 2yrs 8mths so will understand alright. I suppose it is his last link to being a baby. Maybe the problem is me. Lol

 

[OmarsMum]

Apparently our local department store has a doo doo tree when you are visiting Santa and the kids get to put it on that. I need to double check this for this year though.

If it does we will be doing it a few weeks before Xmas to get it over and done with. I am dreading it TBH. DS absolutely loves his doo doo and will be devastated when it is gone

I was also dreading it, but it went much much better than I thought, Omar's "Yaya" was in his mouth almost all day for the past few months, he got too attached to it & he wanted it day & night.

It went really smoothly, we had 2 meltdowns, but his slept well from day one, it took his a while to fall asleep & he cried fr it the 1st night, during the day he was fine.

Good luck Hun xx

 

[xprincessx]

I'm not much help because C gave him up on his own at 7 months old but I have heard that the dummy fairy/santa thing has worked for a lot of children so might be worth a go hun x

 

[chubbin]

I went cold turkey, I told him he's a big boy, so no more dummies as dummies are for babies. I gave him wrapped letters blocks in exchange for his dummy, we had two meltdowns, one at bedtime & another one at night, but the next night he only asked for it without crying or whining, he slept much better on day 3 & now after 10 days he forgot about the dummy.

Good luck Hun, we waited until he was done with teething & he was finally sleeping through at night.

Well done hun! I have done the same with bottles at night (which were effectively dummies). We went cold turkey, explained that bottles through the night were for babies, and gave him a sticker for his chart each morning - leading to a pressie (a jumper he needed!) I'd tried the bottle fairy previously, but it meant nothing to JJ in the middle of the night when he wanted his milk. 'Being a big boy' however is important to him. Good luck hun, whatever you do I hope it works out ok xx

 

[libbyam2003]

We are in the process of this now! First night without was Saturday... first 3 nights she took 20 min to fall asleep when normally she only cried 30 secs to a minute when I put her down. But last night she was back to normal! Fingers crossed! I didn't give her an explanation though... she's be confused since not really able to communicate beyond one word sentences. I think I said they went bye bye... its about all i could come up with that she'd understand! Only reason I stopped the pacifier was because her dr said she needed to by end of January for her teeth... so figured I'd see how it went and if it went badly, I'd wait awhile longer and try again!

But I'd already limited pacifier just to sleeping awhile ago... and she's had a paci at daycare this week... I didn't want to make it awful for her caretakers until she was better about it at home at least! So, baby steps for us!