After three days of hard-fought afternoon binky battles involving an overtired three year old,
After seven separate wake up calls for binky rescues the night before last,
After watching a certain Leonardo DiCaprio film,
Chad and I were chatting about our current binky situation. Both girls LOVE their binkies. A perpetual habit which I must accept blame for ... at least I've been very firm about only allowing the binky in bed/crib. My girls don't walk around with a binky in their mouth. But they do depend (heavily) on that piece of rubber to put themselves to sleep.
Natalie has been a good sleeper since the age of about 10-months - and was putting herself to sleep starting at about 3 or 4 months. She typically sleeps 12+ hours a night. Until about three weeks ago, she took a three hour nap, too. In my mind, getting tough about that binky means losing my good sleeper.
And I said I wouldn't make this same mistake with our second, but here I am again. Charlotte was born 4 weeks early and needed practice with sucking. There is also some research that supports the use of a pacifier at bedtime reduces your baby's risk of SIDS. All of which seemed to justify giving Charlotte a binky when she was an infant. Now that she's 14-months old (today!) and very attached to that darn thing and (finally) teething, I just don't know what to do!
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If you get it to work, tell me how you did it. I have a very attached two year old and the time for a breakup is coming soon.
E never took a binky, but we're having the same issue with his sippy cup. That along with Li-Li (compliments of Auntie D) are totally his comfort items. He asks for that darn sippy of milk all day long--and I know it can't be good for his teeth to nurse that sippy all day, but it provides so much comfort to him (and a welcome break for me!) Let me know how the inception goes, and maybe we'll try it!
Hope your Binky Inception works! My kids nevert took to one so I never had to take it away. Of course I had a 2 year old sleeping in bed with me though, lol.
Oooohhhh! I can't wait to read about the results. Mine takes it for bedtime and naptimes and I just can't give up my quiet nightimes just yet. She's 16 months.
WE had the opposite problem, my kids wouldn't take them and were such bad sleepers! I think your idea is golden, I hope it works. Those pictures are precious! Miss you!
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