When Logan was about 18 months old, he lost interest in his pacifier and was able to "quit" all by himself. Addy's experience has been a little more complicated. For her, the binky was like a drug or a switch that told her mind that it was time to sleep. We are fine with her using her binky but we started to get worried that with the new baby coming, she would have a harder time "quitting" if baby #3 was constantly using one in front of her. So.... we decided that she needed to make the transition before the baby gets here. So we told her to gather all of her pacifiers and we put them in a bag. We took the bag to the store and "gave them to the guy" in exchange for "binky bear."
It was a traumatizing experience and I am sure that she will never quite trust the poor guy at the store, but she is now going on 2 weeks without a binky. Sleeping is the biggest challenge. Without that switch to tell her brain to settle down and sleep she has had to relearn to do it on her own. But overall, she has done a really good job. Hopefully when the baby comes, we won't have to struggle again with it.
It was a traumatizing experience and I am sure that she will never quite trust the poor guy at the store, but she is now going on 2 weeks without a binky. Sleeping is the biggest challenge. Without that switch to tell her brain to settle down and sleep she has had to relearn to do it on her own. But overall, she has done a really good job. Hopefully when the baby comes, we won't have to struggle again with it.
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Awwww! I hope it goes smoothly from here on out!
Good for her! I can't take away Jane's thumb, so I guess it's there to stay. :)
Yeah! It was a really hard process for us when we took Ryder's binky away. I'd have to say it took a couple months for him to truly teach himself how to sleep without it but now he does great. He's also had no problem with the baby's binky and actually always runs to get it when Paxton is crying. :)
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