How long the baby needs to suck on a pacifier?



Using pacifiers children satisfy their innate sucking reflex. It is not surprising that prolonged sucking nipples causes a small child to addiction. So at the age of one year should start to gradually wean from this habit. The less you give a pacifier to the baby, the less he will notice its absence. And when the skills of the baby appear first words, the nipple just stopping to talk and Express their emotions, which can inhibit the development of the child.

At the age of 8 months to a year and a half in children begins to emerge of chewing reflex, and then abandon the nipples much easier. Although babies who are on artificial feeding, a dummy helps to develop the muscles of the tongue and lower jaw, as high probability of formation distal occlusion, and sucking reflex remains unsatisfied to the end.
Children Iskusstvennyi with pacifier satisfies sucking reflex, because this thing can become a kind of substitute for the breast.


From the moment the first tooth baby just needs a change of diet that will be solid food. This will help create a correct bite and to promote proper growth and good healthy teeth. Should replace the pacifier with something else more useful, for example, special silicone rattle or a delicious bagel that your child will not just there, but at the same time to develop chewing reflex, and just to scratch the gums, which will contribute to a painless eruption of the first deciduous teeth.


How to wean a child from a pacifier?



Anyway, to wean the baby from the nipples is necessary so that this process is not psychologically traumatised by it. Any changes in daily life is a stress for the child. It is not necessary to take away a pacifier if a child is sick or not in the mood.
Your such actions can only aggravate his condition, and in the future any changes will cause a continuous negative.


If your child is developing well, he is in excellent spirits, and he's at that age when it is ready to negotiate, you should just explain that the pacifier is no longer needed, what it prevents. This situation can be beat, for example, during a walk to give the dog a pacifier, which is boring, and the pacifier she needed more than the baby. The child will be interesting to share the joy with a strange dog and just do the right thing.