She did it! It has been a whole week without the binky. The first night, we cut the tips off of 2 binkies, declared them "broken", and threw them in the garbage. She didn't even cry! She went to bed really easy that night, and I thought we were golden. This was easy!
The next morning, however, I discovered that my sneaky little daughter had another binky hidden in the crib. She was happily sucking away on said pacifier when I came to get her out of her crib.
She would have thrown a huge fit this time around if we tried to cut the last binky, because now she knew what happened to "broken" binkies. So I took it when she wasn't looking and hid it. I'm a mean mom, aren't I? That night, when I put her to bed, she fumbled around in her bed for a moment, looked up at me with great big tears in her eyes, and said "Where binky go?" I told her it was lost. She said "Mommy find it?" I looked around for a minute,, but of course didn't find her precious binky. I handed her the corner of her blanket. She quickly grabbed it and snuggled in for the night. I didn't hear another word about the "B".
Now that the binky is gone, the only downfall is that she is a little harder to get down for an afternoon nap. Sometimes she does nap, but sometimes she just plays in her crib for a while. Hard to know if that is due to the binky loss or just her growing out of needing a nap during the day.
Regardless, it wasn't nearly as painful as I thought it would be to get rid of the binky. Great job, Anna! I'm proud of you!
2 comments:
That's a tough day when the binky goes! (sometimes even tougher for the moms!) Good job!
Good job! That's how we got rid of Kate's binkis too. It went suprisingly well for us too!
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