Health visitor Ruth Watts shares a simple trick to help toddlers give up their pacifiers. She recommends using a period of sleep deprivation to their advantage, emphasizing that it's a natural part of development.
When it comes to development, every child is unique. Some children breastfeed longer than others, while others take their time learning to crawl, and a few just can't part with their beloved pacifier. The latter often worries parents. However, if you're fretting over your baby or toddler's attachment to their pacifier, a health visitor has shared a simple trick that could help them let go. Ruth Watts, known for her viral parenting videos, suggests a solution.
She explains that usually, it means you need to break a sleep association or find a way for them to learn to self-soothe without a pacifier. In an easy-to-understand video on TikTok, she says: 'It provides comfort, and a lot of babies or toddlers use it to fall asleep. The ideal age to get rid of the pacifier is between four and six months. 'Now the likelihood of getting one to get rid of the pacifier around this age is that they're likely spitting it out in the night, it's causing you to wake up, you're having to find the pacifier and put it back in their mouth. 'At this point is when I say to parents 'you're already waking up in the night, so what is the harm of a couple of bad nights of sleep where they forget the pacifier quite quickly and easily?' This is the easiest age get them to do that.' Parents are being offered advice on alternatives to pacifiers, with an emphasis that cribs should be clear of items until children reach one year of age. 'If you provide a comforter, it means they're no longer laying in a clear crib,' it's noted. Other suggestions include thumb sucking or offering a supervised 'muzzy' that's removed at bedtime. For those trading the pacifier for another form of sensory comfort, options like humming, shushing, singing, or rocking are mentioned. Ruth, sharing her own experience, replaced her children's pacifiers with a face cloth, endorsing its use for those over one. On the other hand, younger babies might accept removal of the pacifier without a substitute
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