My Story

When Daniel was 2 years old I identified that he was turning to his dummy more than before so once his molars were through I decided to limit his dummy sucking to sleep time only. As an advocate of self settling Daniel had formed the habit of playing with dummies in bed until he fell to sleep so I knew that we needed to introduce a future dummy replacement to comfort him. I chose to give Daniel a blankie and my childhood soft toy puppy dog which he loved.

At 2.5 years of age we felt it necessary to ditch Daniels dummies.

We were influenced by the following information

Speech Pathologists say that Dummy sucking can affect the sounds made by the letters S,Z,SH,CH,T,D & N
Dr's feel that a toddler sucking a dummy has three times more ear infections than a non dummy sucker
Dentists also relate a curve in the top front teeth to dummy sucking

Daisy the Dummy Fairy was created as we wished to

remove Daniels dummy with minimal anxiety and stress.

Three years later Sophie was born and she , like Daniel remained in special care so we also introduced her to a dummy.

At age 2.5 it was suggested by her Dentist that the Dummy Fairy visit soon as her teeth were curving forward.

Sophie was obsessed with fairies so I chose to attach a Little Fairy Door to Sophies' wall while she slept and I used a fairy footprint stencil to make pink glitter fairy footprints near the door and through the house ultimately leading to her gift from the Dummy Fairy.

Every child will respond differently to not having

their dummy. For both of my children it was a pleasant

surprise. We knew they may ask for it in the first few days

and we committed to not giving the dummies back to the children

Day 1 - Woke crying for their dummy and again at midday and evening sleep time.

Day 2 - Woke and did not call for their dummy. Asked for it without tears at the midday sleep and cried for it at evening sleep time.

Day 3 - No tears all day and no mention until the evening sleep where the only comment was that the Fairy took all of the dummies and gave them to the babies.

Day 4 onwards - Very little mention at all. My daughter Sophie only comments occasionally when she sees a baby with a dummy. She may comment that the Fairy gave it to them and now they are happy.

You can choose to spend a lot or a little of their special gift . Daisy the Dummy Fairy gave my son a dinosaur and my daughter a barbie doll and bubble machine as requested.

As my son Daniel was 8 weeks premature he did not have the strength and ability to breastfeed so It was suggested to me by staff in the special care nursery to offer a him a dummy to help improve his sucking . Sucking a dummy was such a wonderful way to settle and sooth Daniel when hungry or upset and he often turned to it for comfort.