Babies who use pacifiers to drink milk should stop using them when they are about one year old.
After six months, babies gradually add complementary foods, the number of times they drink milk will also be reduced, generally around ten months you can begin to train babies to use straws or cups to drink directly, through a long period of training, gradually let the baby to stop using the pacifier, to one year of age can be completely with a cup or sippy cups instead of the pacifier.
If the baby has been using the pacifier, it is easy to cause oral problems, such as upper gums and upper jaw deformation, resulting in buck teeth, so that the bite is not aligned, but also affect the aesthetic. Moreover, if the baby keeps using the pacifier, the baby will become dependent on the pacifier, which will affect the baby’s ability to add complementary foods.
If your baby is unable to get off the pacifier, or has oral problems, we recommend that you seek medical advice.