You bring a lovely enthusiasm to your mommy stories. Thanks for sharing them!

Warmest Regards,

Another pot.

I did some reading about talking about how “babas” are for babies not big boys and how we are going to gift them to a baby we know. Well, the only local baby we know is away on vacation. So I planned to mention it a couple times daily until she returned and we could “gift” her the pacifiers…only…nap time rolled around that first day and he didn’t ask for his baba…so I didn’t give it to him. It took a bit longer for him to fall asleep and there was a lot of rubbing his mouth, touching his tongue (a bit odd) and then he was asleep. Last night he asked for it once, without much gusto and went all night without it.

As a child who sucked her finger for EIGHT years with a brother who sucked his for TWELVE, I am ever so glad for the pacifier and frankly amazed by how quickly he did without it.

Will potty training be this easy?

*fingers crossed*

thankyou so much. You can delete this after reading :)

My son gave up the paci at 3 mon. and there were times I’d wish he hadn’t. Bottle was another story. We actually accidentally weaned him off it by losing the last bottle we had, boy that was a shit night.

Just a word of warning, even though we got rid of the bottle, he still had a sippy cup at night. After having to get a root canal at 2 (talking about feeling like a shitty mom), he still took awhile to not want the sippy, but he only got water. His memory of the dentist and that we didn’t want any more sugar bugs was enough to calm down the crying of wanting milk or juice at night.

My son is 4 and still sleeps with me, so we all have our thing. But I think we’re all doing the best we can :)

OMG, I hate that I lied. But it feels much better now that I’ve admitted that….

And then we’ve got the whole potty training thing to work on….

I try to look at the big picture when I find myself getting frustrated with myself over not meeting the prescribed “deadlines” for taking baby items away…. my kid is happy, healthy and relatively well-adjusted. Her teeth are not disintegrating in front of my eyes, as we brush regularly and have fluoride drops. And the same deadline doesn’t work for every child….

My son turns two this week and still gets a bottle before bed and I don’t mind at all. It helps him relax and go to sleep and since he isn’t a great eater it gives me peace of mind knowing that he’s getting some nutrition in at the end of the day. My pediatrician would flip out if he knew, but I really don’t think it is hurting anything at all. I read him his book hold him in my arms and he drinks the bottle we put it up, turn out the lights and go to bed. So mihow don’t feel bad, each parent does what is right for their child. We also are in the process of cutting out the “pagy” paci and I use the distract method by saying I can’t find it or it’s being washed… etc. and if that doens’t work I go ahead and give it to him.

I’m not sure what I’d do with two right now. It’d be mayhem for sure.

Egirl: I have an even bigger more awful confession to make here: Emory still drinks from a bottle before bedtime. :[ We cut it back, and we’re using some bottle/sippy cup hybrid at this point, but still. NOT cool. But we’re not sure how many things we can take from him all at once without losing our minds entirely.

One step at a time. After the Bappy, I’m going to cut the sippycup/bottle. After that, it’s potty training time. (Right now, he does it every time if he’s naked. As soon as I put some pants on him, he’ll have an accident. I’m still learning how to be a parent—every day.)

Getting him down for a nap takes more energy out of me than anything else. Some of my friends can somehow keep there children in there rooms for ‘quiet’ time for up to 2 hrs but my son will scream down the place if I do so. So now instead of wasting all my energy on trying to get him to nap I lay on our bed with him and reading tons of books and the for the last week he’s actually gone down for a nap (1:30pm – 3:30pm). Unfortunately my two boys (the other is nearly 6 mths) have totally opposite sleep schedules so no rest for me. And the younger one has decided all of a sudden it is time to start eating every 3 hours again through the night. He used to sleep through the night a few months ago. The older one is also not sleeping well. My husband and I are up all night with these two. He woke up the other morning on the floor of the boy’s room and both of them in bed with me! We’re walking around like the walking dead. Passing each other in the dark at night.

I don’t have advice on the pacifier. My son never used one, but he has 2 shameful looking blankets that’ll need to go some time soon.

Hope we’ll get through this phase alive :)

Our biggest hurdles right now are weaning him off of his bottle and getting him to sleep in his crib, which is no fun at all.

Oh and he’s a year old now. Just thought I’d clarify that.