The love Alani had for her pacifier was intense, really intense, I mean she couldn’t go throughout the day, sleep or be without this pacifier period. However, the breakup wasn’t so bad, it wasn’t bad at all matter of fact.
Let me give you a little history about this pacifier obsession. Alani has been using a pacifier since she was a newborn. The plan was to ween her off of the pacifier once she turned 18months, but I think we were just as obsessed with it as she was. If any of you have children who use or used a pacifier know that it serves for so many things; it’s a great soothing tool, melt down fixer, etc. I never realized how long i’ve gone with not dealing with the actual problem of melt downs, we’d just give her the pacifier and that’ll solve the problem most of the time. Now that the pacifier is gone, there’s a lot of problem solving going on over here, a lot of “Why are you upset”, “you don’t have to cry”,”it’s okay” , and digging deep deep deep down in my soul for more patience that I didn’t even know was hidden in me.
Any who we went cold turkey with the pacifier break up. We had about four pacifiers, and an extra one at grandmas just, just, just in case. Well those four pacifiers went missing all in one day. I swear she has little hiding spots for all of her little treasures. I searched high and low for these pacifiers (why did she have a hold of four pacifiers? yea I don’t know either). Well they were missing, it was late at night I was getting frustrated looking for them, and wasn’t able to find one. Alani went on a hunt for them too, looking under the couch, under the bed, under the sofa cushion, and still no pacifier (those must be her hiding spots I was talking about). We both decided to give up looking and went to bed nice and peacefully, who would’ve known we should’ve tried this months ago, actually we did and weren’t successfully.
The next day I found 3/4 of the pacifiers, and I decided to to tell Alani a little white lie every time she would ask for them; that I didn’t know where they were, and we’d go on our search all over again, and i’ll be right there on the floor looking under the bed, and the couch with her. Then, she’ll just shrug her tiny little shoulders saying ‘I don’t know”, and i’ll respond “me either, are you ready for bed?”, and just like that for a few days, we’d continue the same routine, and fall asleep peacefully, sans pacifier.
She goes throughout most of the day without even asking for it, and I couldn’t be more happier at how easy this was. I really just hope I get to the last missing pacifier before she does. I cannot believe baby girl is really growing up, as excited as i am, it’s little sad how fast time goes. However, I think it’s almost time for potty training, we actually tried being consistent with it this weekend, but yea, that’s a story for another day.
How did you ween your baby off of the pacifier?, or when do you plan to?
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all enjoyed your 3 day weekend; you know we did!!!
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