Happy Wednesday, peeps.
Happy because yesterday was the first day that no one threw up in our household. Happy because 2013 is finally kicking off (I’m not counting the first week because it was full of puke). Happy because I finally sent out Addison’s kids birthday party invitations…about 3 weeks too late. Happy because this tiny little baby in my belly has been kicking me non-stop and although I should probably complain that my bladder has taken more punches than necessary, I’m enjoying feeling her moving around and kicking.
Happy because this weekend I get to take some newborn photos of an adorable new baby boy, spend the weekend with my besties, and then take newborn photos of my brand new sweet niece. Honestly, can things get any better than that?
If you are keeping up with my randomness on Facebook and Twitter, you know that we were planning to take away Peanut’s pacifier this past weekend but since the stomach bug hits us, we thought it would be a very bad idea to do it at the same time. Instead we are waiting until she is eating and drinking again and acting more like herself. So far we’re at about 50% recovered so we’re postponing it a bit longer. Our goal is to break her of the habit by 2 and although there are only a couple of weeks left, I’m pretty confident (seeing as how I’m wicked stubbon).
Since P has never had her pacifier (known as “nunu” around here) during the day – only at nap times, bed times, and in times of dior need (like the stomach bug) so our game plan is to cut it out cold turkey. Just say bye-bye to the “nunu” and take a deep breath that we’ll both be holding for 3 days until our kid is no longer screaming bloody murder for her “nunu.”
You see, I wouldn’t push her to break the habit if things continued as they were – she was always accepting of the rules in the house and that nunus are for bedtime and naptime only. Until about a month ago when she learned to ask for her nunu by name. And ever since then it’s been whining or crying “nunu” practically non-stop. Morning. Afternoon. After nap. Before bed. After dinner. Well, you get the point.
So our happy, calm household turned into a constant battle and whine-fest. For an hour after nap or in the morning she would cry or whine for her nunu so we weren’t able to do a single thing. It’s not what I would call an ideal situation so we talked about it and decided to just break her of the nunu habit altogether.
I’ll keep you peeps posted on the progress once we’re back to our healthy and happy selves.
Good luck with the “nunu”! It really wasn’t bad here. Like you, “paci” wasn’t allowed during the day (Thank you daycare!!), but he had started sneaking into his room and stealing it out of his crib, or whining for it when he could. When we dropped it, it was rough a couple times, but really not too bad, since he was used to going to sleep at daycare without it. I did keep a couple hidden “in case” and used it a couple times over the next couple weeks when he injured himself (e.g. face-planting on the concrete in front of Olive Garden), until one day he fell, and refused to take it at all. Score! (Btw, I only saved the paci’s he DIDN’T like, so he had to be desperate.) Ok, long comment. GOOD LUCK!
Oh I’m so jealous you already did it!
Eeek! Good luck to you! I’m glad you are all feeling better.
You guys can do it! Cold turkey is definitely the way to go, but as you know how much she understands, I would explain it to her (however you think she’s be able to grasp it). You’ll be glad when it’s gone!! Good luck.
Her eyes are beautiful!!!!
Being a mother to furry kids I’ve never had to deal with this but my friend when they decided to wean their daughter of her nunu they secretly cut a hole in it and didn’t restrict her usage of it. It didn’t take her long to realized on her own that it was broken and gave it up pretty fast. Not sure if that would work with Peanut though.
I hope it goes well. I know it can be stressful! Would she understand trading them in? We also broke W’s so they didn’t work when he sucked.
I am so dreading taking away C’s pacifier. I never even planned to give her one, but it’s an important step in the NICU, so we had no choice. I wanted to take it away a few months ago and was talked out of it and now she can’t sleep without it.
Such a cute picture! I was so nervous about taking Bryce’s “sassy” away. He only used it at bedtime and those stressful sickness times, but he was very attached. I litteraly had a breakdown thinking about him being so upset if we took it away. However, he just went to bed one night without it and then the next night he asked once and we said it went bye bye. He would ask randomly after that but he never used it again.
I say all that to give you hope and not stress because Bryce was very very attached and just stopped needing it. He was probably a little over two when that happened.
So glad your all feeling better. Are you on Instagram? I see you posting pictures to Facebook from it.
Sara- YES! @mrslltkings
by the way, I am crossing my fingers my story will be like yours but somehow I am doubting it
So, we had the same thing start to happen with the pacifier {dapi} around here. Super whiny about it. Demanding it all the time. It stopped doing its job and it was starting to change her speech because she was talking through it all the time. So, I asked her how many days she wanted with it {1 or 2} she said 2 and then on the morning of the 3rd day, she woke up, I asked for her paci, she handed it to me and I threw it in the trash “Paci goes bye bye. Bye paci. We love you paci”. And that was it. Any time she asked for it I just told her that the paci went bye bye.
I’m fully confident that you will come out victorious in a matter of days with this. =)
What a beautiful face! Her eyes are so brown
Good luck with the pacifier!
Oh I hope it goes smoothly for you! I didn’t want my kids to have a paci for this exact reason – I didn’t want to have to take it away! Y’all will do great. She seems like she’s big enough and she’ll understand what’s happening. Good luck to you all!
Also – have fun with the newborn shoot! It’s kind of stressful, but just remember that it’s totally normal for them to take a long, long time!
yessss I love newborn shoots
I’m super excited.
Ohhhh. I am so excited to see how this goes. Reading your post yesterday gave me the nerve to try to drop Abby’s soother…tonight. I hadn’t planned to try and break the habit until she turned two, but after reading your post, I really couldn’t come up with a good excuse why I wouldn’t just do it today. Like Addison, she is now requesting her “soggy” throughout the day. Although she mainly gets it at nap and bedtime, recent extended car travel for Christmas, a round of bad colds and fevers meant she was getting more and more time with her soother. And the vicious cycle of getting more and more attached was inevitable.
We’ve been watching this video for the past month or so (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFnnG8Ap01g) …not because I thought it would help, but because she loves Elmo (side-note: I now cannot get this song out of my head), but tonight when she took it away I was able to sing “Bye, bye, soggy, soggy bye bye…bye, bye soggy, Elmo won’t cry” and she waved and said “bye, bye.” She did cry for about 25 minutes, but has been sound asleep ever since. Fingers crossed! We’re in this together
Oh wow!!!! I am so nervous about it. Will you be blogging about it?
Yeah, I think I’ll blog once it’s all over.
Last night went as well as can be expected: 25 minutes crying before she fell asleep, and then about 30-40 minutes in the middle of the night at 2AM. She slept until about 6:45 (her normal wake-up time). It was HILARIOUS though…the first thing out of her mouth when I got her up was “bye, bye soggy..” and she totally waved the whole time she was saying it. Too cute. I actually LOVE the soother and think it is just so darn cute, but it has to go sooner or later.
We’ll see how nap goes today. I’m pretty terrified.
Elisabeth – keep me posted!