Success!!!

YES!!!!

 

 

When you have a baby, isn't it funny how the smallest milestones can make you jump for joy inside?!  Today we packed up our good friends, the Wubbanub's, and said goodbye, once and for all. I've been trying to ween her off of the Soothie paci's for several months now since they're made for younger babies, but it's been one battle I have not been able to win with this girl, until now. Most of the age appropriate paci's we've tried have been the flat ones that have not gone over too well. She likes to chew them, but when it comes to nap time or bedtime, she is inconsolable without the Soothie paci. 

While I was in Utah, I was leafing through the baby section in Walmart, and I ran across a well made paci by Platex. Expecting it to be flat like all the others I've seen, I flipped it over and, to my surprise, I noticed it was round like the Soothie paci's. And, it was age appropriate (6-18 months). I bought it, washed it and gave it to her to try out. Once again, she chewed it but refused to go to sleep with it.
Then right before we flew back to GA, my mom sewed up a little security blanket with a loop so that we could attach the paci to it (in place of her Wubbanub's). I put her in her swing the first day we were home, and she took it and went right to sleep with it. That same night when I put her in her crib to go to sleep, she took it right away, and drifted rightvoff to sleep! SUCCESS!!!

I've noticed a similar battle we've been having with sippy cups. She took a sippy cup just a few times when she was around 5 months old, but after that, she would refuse them and cry whenever I attempted to give her one. Every time I took her to her baby wellness apts, her doctor would ask me if she was taking a sippy cup yet, and to my disappointment I would tell her no. She doesn't like the feel and texture of anything other than her bottle and paci. I talked to other moms and tried several different kinds of sippy cups but none of them worked.  Finally one day just a few weeks ago, don't ask me why, but I bought a cheap pack of disposable sippy cups, and to my surprise, that was the one she actually liked. She doesn't like anything but water in them, but she gets happy and giggly when I pull it out for her.
Since then, I've tried going back and giving her some of the "fancier" ones that I bought, thinking that she'd take them now that she's got the hang of it. . . Nope. She still likes the cheap little disposable ones. So, we will continue to use them for now.