A dummy for any newborn baby is the main sedative. As you know, the process of sucking is a natural reflex for kids of this age, which appears long before birth. The baby, while still in the mother's body, periodically sucks her boy, as confirmed by numerous pictures of ultrasound. This is how the digestive system is prepared for food intake after birth. In addition, sucking is a process that helps to calm the child, and allows you to distract the baby from the stimulus.
When to start weaning from the nipple?
The baby is growing, and the time comes when my mother starts to think about how to wean your child from a pacifier , and do it right. It is known that there is no 100% effective method. This requires an individual approach.
Today, children's dentists can not give an unambiguous answer to the question: when (how much) do you need to start weaning a child from a dummy. But still there is an opinion that it is better to do this in the interval of 6-9 months. In practice, it is rather difficult to do.
How to wean your baby from a dummy?
A lot of all methods and techniques for weaning from a dummy can be conditionally divided into:
- sharp;
- gradual.
As you know, the gradual method of weaning a child from sucking a dummy can be applied at almost any age, but it's better to start when the child is between 6-9 months.
At the same time, it is strictly forbidden to my mother to give a baby a dummy for the first cry. For his reassurance, it is recommended to use other methods (feed, cuddle, shake, distract, etc.). You should try not to give it unnecessarily. This can be done only in those situations when other methods of calm did not give their result. After the child calms down and falls asleep, unnoticed take away and hide the pacifier, that is, the ablation occurs during sleep, at night.
Do this as often as possible, then the time spent without a "pacifier" will constantly increase.
A sharp method of weaning from a dummy can be used only for already grown-up children, who begin to consciously control their actions. Contrary to what pediatricians recommend starting a weaning from a pacifier, when the baby turns six months old, most children do not. In many, the process is carried out at the age of 1.5-3 years. The method of abrupt excommunication is reduced to the following rules:
- Restricting the baby in sucking nipples is necessary gradually. When leaving for a walk, leave a pacifier at home, do not give it to your child during bathing, playing games, watching cartoons, etc.
- Plan the "parting". For example, do this in a playful form, warning the child beforehand that conventionally a fairy will come in a week and take away the beloved baby pacifier. In return, she will receive a gift.
- Do not scold your baby while sucking a pacifier, but be sure to praise him when he does without it for a long time.
- During excommunication do not introduce other changes into his life ( accustoming to a pot , entering kindergarten, etc.).
- Be especially persistent and consistent in their actions. Before you carry out the weaning of the baby from the pacifier,
Mom should tune in for a long "struggle" and not retreat under any circumstances. - Do not give the child time for boredom. Constantly borrow it with games, entertainment, walking in the fresh air.
- Make a hole on the tip of the pacifier or cut it. After that, the baby will not be so comfortable sucking her, and my mother will be able to convince him that the dummy broke.
The application of the above described techniques will help mother to wean her child from the habit of sucking a pacifier.