Comforters

[Leigh]

Spinning off from the other thread, and I was also curious to know.

Who's kids have had one, and till when?

Katelyn has cloth nappies, she calls it her "peekboo" (when she was little, you'd but it on her head, and she'd say peekboo, and the name stuck LOL). All the kids have had them to snuggle with when they were babies, to catch to vomit. Katelyn had reflux, and didn't really stop till after she was 12mths. The other 2 lost theirs around 6mths when the chucking stopped. They also all had dummies, but lost those before they were 2.

So now she is 2.5 and we are still stuck with these damn things and the dummy, they go hand in hand. Santa is hopefully taking them. The dummy I am more worried about than the nappy. She usually only has the dummy at bed time, and it falls out once she's a sleep.

I can still remember mine, I think it was "lost" just before I went to school, that is terrible LOL. It was a crocheted face washer LMAO. I don't want her to have it that long.

[Naomi]

Hugo had a dummy until he was 7 months old but he was waking very frequently all night when it fell out so the dummy went away (took about a week for him to get over it I think).

He doesn't have a particular comfort item now but he does seem to need to hold something when we are out. I usually have a small toy that I give him when I put him in the car-seat and he'll hold onto it until we get home again. His favourite is a little orange truck squeezy toy. (Orange is his favourite colour).

Yesterday in the supermarket I didn't have a toy for him and he picked up a carrot and held on to it. He hollered when I took it off him to have it scanned at the checkout :blush: so I gave it back and he held it all the way home. As soon as we got home, he dropped it and forgot all about it. (When I went to cook it last night, I found lots of little teeth marks in it. I cooked it anyway :D ).

I sucked my thumb until I was about 10. In the end, my mother put socks on my hands at bedtime to break the habit (yes, it was very traumatic). I would prefer a dummy to thumb sucking.

[MissieK]

My boys both have dummies atm, only for bed time. Zaccy has a teddy & a leopard he likes to sleep with.

Melissa

[Patricia]

Callum (who is now 14 :O ) would kill me if he knew I was telling you this!

I think I have told you before that Callum suffers from severe eczema and has done so since he was a few weeks of age. It was very hard to settle him down and to comfort him when distressed from the itch. He was given a dummy in hospital and took to it like a duck to water!

I didn't have the heart to take the dummy away from him and would have people (even strangers) telling me that he was too old to have it!

Eventually when he was about 3 :blush: I decided that we would try and get rid of it. I told him a wild and wonderful story about the dummy fairies needing dummies for the poor children that didn't have any blah blah blah.....

I convinced him to throw them onto the floor when he went to bed and that the fairies would collect them ...he had hidden them everywhere ..so he collected them all and left them on the floor. Soon after going to bed I heard him up again and asked what was wrong...he was putting the dummies outside his door as he didn't want the fairies to flutter their wings near his face when he was asleep.

How cute was that? He didn't have a dummy from that day on :):)

[Naomi]

Patric, that is soo sweet.

[miss.terious]

ooh gosh....
kids....:D

[mel35]

Oh that is sooo cute.

None of my kids would take a dummy but 2 were thumb suckers my eldest and youngest. My baby starts school next year and still goes around everywhere sucking her thumb, we have tried lots of things to get her to stop to no avail, I think I might have to get some of that awful stuff to paint on her nails ( that stops nailbiting).
My son who is 6 and a half has had a "blanky" since he was a baby, he used to carry it everywhere now he only sleeps with it.