How best to stop my 8 month old daughter wanting her dummy (pacifier/soother) to go to sleep?
Aww, it’s not doing her any harm and at 8 months I think she might be too young, let her have it, it’s obviously a comfort to her. My eldest daughter now 13 gradually came off her dummy after the age af 3, my second daughter, now 10, dropped hers down the loo by accident when she was 3 and I just said to her ‘oops, it’s gone now’ and she happily never had 1 again, but she was really placid. Now, my son who is 4 still has his dummy at night time and I will let him have it until he feels no longer attached to it, it is a source of comfort to him, no one outside the home knows he still has it and it doesn’t bother me. My 2 daughters have grown up with no ill effects for having their dummies but I can still remember my mam taking my dummy away from me, must have only been 2 1/2 and I was absolutely devastated and also after she took my dummy away, I developed a thing where I pulled my lower eyelids down if I was tired, even now if I get extremely tired my eyes get irritated and I have an u
