Maddie still prefers- or rather demands a pacifier to go to sleep.
We've gotten to where she only has it at nap and bedtime, but it needs to go away. I swear it's starting to mess up her teeth and just the fact that she is so dependent on something bothers her father and me.
For a few weeks now we've been talking to her about when the paci's are going away - trying to mentally prepare her for when they are no longer available.
So tonight was the night - we gathered them up from all over the house and put them in a box.
Then when bedtime came around it all went sour.
After an hour of screaming from my daughter - it was almost 10 p.m. and Wyatt was still not asleep because he was overtired and picking up on his sister's angst - I went into her room and stuck a paci in her mouth and told her to go to sleep.
Go ahead - lecture me on being inconsistent and rewarding negative behavior and all that other psycho babble - YOU come to my house and try to get her to settle down because nothing we tried worked.
Tomorrow is another day and I'm not ready to discuss the pacifiers quite yet.
Honestly I need my kids to sleep more than I need to worry about braces and other dental issues.
They'll probably end up needing them regardless of the pacifiers.
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My attitude on ALL of these hot parenting issues, at the moment, is this: Will they be breastfeeding/sleeping in a crib/wearing a diaper/sleeping with mama and daddy/using a paci to sleep when they're ten years old? NO! I get pretty touchy when people get all preachy about when a child should give up this, and start that, and BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Maddie will be fine :)
Give her the paci, one day all on her own she will quit. When she is 5 and goes to a sleepover believe me she will not want it in front of others. Your baby needs to be babied and if this is what she needs to quiet herself then give it to her. No psycho babble just a learned Mama.
Love you,
Mom
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