If it allows you to calm baby when it is small, it is better to stop the pacifier when the child reaches two or three years so as to avoid dentition problems and language disorders. How to help him do without his pacifier? Here are some tips!
Your child cannot do without his pacifier To fall asleep or look for it as soon as he has a big sorrow? If the pacifier has the advantage of calming baby and comforting him, a bit like her comforter, she quickly becomes a habit. However, it would have to happen towards The age of 3 Because the orthodontists believe, that beyond this age, the use, especially prolonged of the pacifier, can cause dentition problems, A deformation of the palace and sometimes even language disorders. It is therefore necessary to gradually teach your child how to do without it. How to do it for Help him get rid of his gently pacifier? Here are some tips.
1 – Discuss with his “big”
When your child is 3-4 years old and sucks the pacifier, you have to discuss it and say that nothing is dramatic because it is cattle. My best thing is to ask him: “Are you a baby? And let him answer “no”. Then, I explain to him that the nipple is for babies, and that he does not need it since he is great … “, reveals Jean-Baptiste Kerbrat, orthodontist doctor.
2 – Start by removing the pacifier at night
Often children need to fall asleep with their pacifier. So what we can do is negotiate: “Ok, I let you fall asleep with it, but afterwards, we remove it in the night “ offers the specialist. Thus, we limit the sucking time of the pacifier.
3 – Do not have several spare teats
“”Better to avoid walking with 4 or 5 teats in the stroller!“Says Dr. Jean-Baptiste Kerbrat. Parents too, must monitor their conduct!
4 – Imagine a story to abandon it
All parents know it well: children love stories. Why not imagine the abandonment of this pacifier so that everything goes better? Example: we take advantage of the summer holidays by the sea to go swimming in the water with junior, dad plunges and gives it to the little fish passing. Thus, the child is happy to please fish and forget quickly, thanks to the good holidays he will spend.
5 – Read books
Swap the traditional fairy tale before the dodo for A story of pacifier that will gradually encourage him to imitate the heroes of the books by courageously abandoning his Tototte adored. Follow together the tribulations of: “Nina’s pacifier“(Publishing editions),”Throw your lollipop, Penelope“(Gallimard editions),”Goodbye pacifier! The story of the little rabbit“(Chantecler editions) or” P’tit wolf wants his pacifier “(Éditions Auzou).
6 – Opt for an orthodontic device
There are also small “screen” devices that will position themselves in front of the teeth and between the gums. This is a kind of deal: the child is left to continue using this device but the sucking problem disappears! “Explains Jean-Baptiste Kerbrat, orthodontist doctor.
7- A pacifier to stop the pacifier!
Patented by Arnaud Biezanek, a Chartres prosthetist specializing in orthodontics and dad, The withdrawal pacifier called Clipp®. Allows children to teach themselves to get rid of the pacifier. CE certified, it is, in fact, composed of a series of five colleagues which stack on top of each other. Little by little, the material to suck is reduced and The child ends up going smoothly with the pacifier after one or two months. This withdrawal pacifier is on sale on the brand’s website and in the future, hopes its creator, in pharmacies.
