Last night I attempted to take away Valerie's Binky...well lets be honest...I couldn't find it, so I decided there is no time like the present to try and break the habit right? Well it took her a minute longer to fall asleep, but she did fall asleep. I was really proud of both of us. That wasn't so bad after all! :) Little did I know what we were in for later that night. 3:30 rolls around and Valerie starts crying, I go in and tell her it is ok and to go back to sleep. She was quiet for about 20 minutes and then the real crying began. About an hour and a half later I finally decided to give in and look for her Binky....and look....and look...and look. By the time I had given up looking for Binky Valerie had apparently given up too and fallen back asleep. I think I lost a total of 3 hours of sleep...worth it...I think not! If anyone has any great tips that would be very much appreciated. (keep in mind I can't go back in time and try to break her habit at a younger age). Or maybe she will break the habit on her own when she gets to college and none of her other roommates are still sucking on their Binky's!!
2022
5 days ago
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When it was time to take away our kids binkys, we took them to the store and let them pick out whatever toy they wanted - but we told them that they had to trade the binky for the toy. It worked great for our older one, it was a little but harder on my younger one, but she got the hang of it. She only cried one night for just a little bit. I think it helped that she slept with the new toy (a Cinderella Barbie doll) until she didn't need it anymore ... good luck!
I think that suggestion is a great one - Supernanny has a binky fairy that comes to get all the binkies from big girls/boys so other babies can have them. And she brings them a big girl prize in return. You just put all the binkies outside (she hung them from a tree) and see what the binky fairy brings! My girls never would take binkies, so I have no personal experience on getting rid of them, but I thought that was a good idea. I'm sure it's rough at first, but it will be worth it soon!
You guys are way more creative than I am. We toughed it out and went cold turkey.
3 hours aint bad. But to make it worth it, you have to keep going. If you go on and off with it, you'll lose a lot more sleep then just going "off". Just keep in mind you want to take it away long enough before baby#2 comes, and by age 3 it starts affecting their baby teeth. You know how ruff it was to take Kates away, but now that I'm passed that, it is so worth it! And I bet Val will do SOO much better than Kate did, considering how good she did the first night. Really, she did good.
I wasn't done. :) ...most kids don't just go, "ok, no more binky I guess, good night". (some do, that were probably ready to give up the binky long before anyway), most kids will cry it out. Its normal, they are adjusting. :) Good luck!
Good Luck with it!!!! You've got a lot of really good advice so far. Personally, I just made the binkies vanish and it was more like "out of sight, out of mind." Tracie saw hers about 6 months later, and gave me a look like "I wondered where that went."
oh man, i don't know what to even tell you!
remember i told you sophia is still drinking milk from a bottle? ya, i'm not the best girl for advice.
good luck though!!!
just think, when val and sophia have sleepovers they will won't feel stupid. ha ha. val will have her bink and sophia will have her bottle.
We just threw Clark's binkie out the car window one day when he was being bad. How's that for loving parenting? He screamed for forty five minutes, and asked for it once more a few days later, but he figured it out. My guess is that your three hour ordeal last night was the worst of it. Just keep going with it!
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