How to wean a child from the nipple

How to wean a child from the nipple

When it was that a child from a pacifier - is your business, someone is understanding after the first birthday, someone before going to kindergarten or before traveling to a long journey. We hope our tips will help in this difficult business!



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Cause of sucking baby nipples

The need for sucking is most pronounced in children for the first time 3-4 months of the month of life. The need for sucking begins to gradually fade and exhibits in a bad habit, which prevents the child to develop the child. As the baby develops, he must memorize information, develop vision, study new abilities, and during sucking the brain and the organism reflexes are relaxed. Accordingly, the child's attention is scattered, and it will already manifest itself not so actively as without a pacifier in the mouth.



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How to wean a child from the nipple

If you see that your baby calmly falls asleep without a pacifier, you can try to minimize the use of a smoothly, and gradually over time completely abandon it. But parents sometimes miss this moment, here it is necessary to understand that after a year the children are strongly tied to a pacifier and wean the baby from it will be much more complicated. We need to teach the baby in a quiet period of his life, as for a child it is a big stress.

  • Your task is at this time to pay maximum attention to the baby - send songs, read the fairy tales, point in your hands - the main thing, be constantly near. The continuous presence of Mom will respond a child from thoughts about sucking and calm.
  • If your baby is used only to fall asleep with the nipple, then you can replace it with a toy. And at the first stage, leave the pacifier, and the toy, and then at the right moment, remove the dust.
  • Sometimes parents choose a way of cutting - every day cut the length of the dummy, the baby will not be comfortable to suck it and over time will gradually refuse her.
  • There are cases when "random" cancellation from the nipple occurs. For example, you came from the guests and found that the nipple was forgotten there. What are you going to do? Trying to calm the baby without a nipple. The next day, when you buy a new pacifier, you can find that it is already without need to be a child.
  • The main rule is not easy in this: if you see that your child is nervous, crying, requires a pacifier - put the separation with a nipple indefinitely.

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How to wean an adult child from the nipple

Alone to quit a pacifier kids may not earlier than three years, or even later. Many parents are very worried about when quite an independent three-year-old child sucks a nipple, the main thing is not to turn your anxiety into a psychological trauma for yourself and the child. The motive can be the opinion of peers, which is more important for the baby than the opinion of his own parents. If you come to the garden, a three-year-old child pulls out a nipple, then it will immediately hear from children, as it is not good and ashamed. Be sure your child will immediately refuse this bad habit!

  • With an adult child, it is necessary to constantly talk and explain that he is already an adult and that no one sucks at this age.
  • The best way to arrange a solemn farewell with a pacifier with verses and songs, sending it to a long journey.
  • You can make a joint decision to give a pacifier to a fabulous character. Or a small animal who lives in the forest and is very scary without it.
  • You can give a pacifier younger in the age of the baby, because he needs it.
  • First talk to the child and agree that we will not suck the pacifier more, after which it is significant to throw it into the garbage chute.
  • The child will also be interested in to bury her in the garden and plant a tree or flowers on this place. The next day, put a gift to this place a gift, as if encouraging for the refusal of the pacifier.

If all attempts to wean a child from sucking ended in failure, then the time has not yet come. Take care and know that sooner or later it will definitely happen!

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