Well, Becky is officially a "big girl" now. At least that's what we keep telling her! We decided to take her binkys away this weekend. I talked to her about it for a couple days beforehand, and she would always tell me yes when I asked her if we should throw her binkys away because she was a big girl. So Friday when we got home from day care, she walked upstairs to get her two binkys out of the crib. She carried them downstairs and threw them in the trash. She also threw her one from day care away. She put each one of them in her mouth one last time, and then just threw them in the trash. Then I gave her a "high-five" and we did a happy dance. I told her she was very brave and what a big girl she was. She was fine until bedtime. She quite possibly threw the worst tantrum ever. She even tried to get her bedroom door open to go downstairs and get her binkys. She didn't get any stories read to her before bed on Friday because she was just too upset. She finally went to sleep after about an hour. Al did go up to check on her once, and there was no comforting to be done there.
Becky was in a fairly good mood yesterday considering she didn't sleep great. She woke up when I went to check on her Firday night, but then slept only until 6:30. Didn't get much nap yesterday, so actually went to sleep at about 8:30 after only whimpering for a little while. Slept until 6 and then I went in (since it's still dark!) and told her she was okay. Slept until 8. Not much nap again today, a lot of crying.
Laid down at 8. Just cried (while I was thinking how well she was doing, of course!) after about 25 mintues of being in bed. Went up and told her she was okay and changed her slightly wet diaper. She really is just procrastinating. I asked her what she wanted, though, and she couldn't even say "bink" anymore, so I think she's almost forgotten. She just knows something is missing! Hopefully after a couple days she'll get her sleep back that she's missed out on and be able to sleep without so much crying!
We decided to take her binky away because she was really starting to digress. She had only been having it at naptime and bedtime since she was one. The past couple months she had started wanting to go up to her bedroom just to suck on her bink for a couple minutes. It seemed to be the only thing that could calm her anymore if she got upset. I had enough! I figured it was only going to get worse from there. So...here we are! And so far, all of us have survived. It was definitely best to throw them all away this time though. There was no way we were going to dig them out of the trash!
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so how is becky doing without her pacifiers?? Haydn still has a pacifier and just turned 18 months this month. I know the longer she has it the harder it will be to take away. any suggestions??
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