Well as you can see from my siggie we are just recently Paci free. DD was seriously hooked to the darn thing.
I did not want to go the whole Pacifier route, but broke down at about 4 weeks, because of PPD I was FREAKING out. (didn't know why then, but I know now) My mom recognized that we were having a hard time and gave DD a pacifier. Sigh....was the worst couple of days for me, but eventually I got used to it.
FFW 11 months and I had enough of the bink. DD would recognize it, crawl across the room to stick it in her mouth etc. I could tell that it was not something she needed to calm herself. Around her first birthday I notice that she was going to sleep with out it. Mostly attributed to CIO that we were using to get her down at night. Boredom seemed to be the only reason she wanted it. Not acceptable to me anymore so I weaned her from it and she had her bink for the last time right before bed on Tuesday night.
She has gone three days and hasn't even shown any signs of missing it too terribly. That tells me even more that it was time to get rid of it. It was very important to me that she be off the bink before she could get upset that she didn't have it.
BTW: DH was totally against weaning her from the bink, but I did it anyway. And she is still nursing 1-2 times a day....
Hugs, I;ve been there.
Christy
Maddy - binkie free as of 6/28/05
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