Not out of the woods yet!!

I have been dreading the day and night when I would have to figure out a way to take Morgan's pacifier away. I think it has been me because I needed to mentally prepare myself for the nights when I would have to just let her cry herself to sleep at least that was my plan.

For the past few months I have been self consciously not taking it with us like to church, any where we go or making sure she left in her bed when she woke up in the morning. If Morgan would ask where's my passey I would say you know where it's at. She has done great in the day time about not having her pacifier every once in awhile she would ask for it most of the time it's when she is tired. I'll tell her that she is a big girl and that big girls don't need passeys obviously that doesn't work. Most of the time she just wants to have it to chew on it like when the rest of her teeth have been coming in and when she is sick that is the worst. When she doesn't want it she just drops it on the floor and I'll put it back in her bed or just hide it so she isn't reminded that she needs it.

The problem is not when she is asleep with the pacifier it's making herself fall asleep without the pacifier at nap time and nighttime. My pediatrician said I needed to start thinking about her not having it because of her teeth. I do realize this , but welcome to the real world Man!!!

A while back a friend told me what they did with there daughter's pacifier is that they tied the pacifier to the bed so that there daughter would only have it at nap time or night only. So I used the idea. We had one pacifier tied to her crib and another that she could just have in her bed only because the one tied to the bed limited her sleeping meaning moving around.

One night I couldn't find the mobile pacifier so I told her she had to have the one tied to the bed. Which some nights she was fine with, but I guess not that night. So she was freaking out hysterical I just think she was overly tired. I tried to explained to her that I was trying to find it and she needs to calm down. I was looking all over the house I was thinking OK this is defeating the purpose of getting rid of the pacifier how am I helping Morgan if we just keep giving her the mobile pacifier. Eventually I found that mobile pacifier I was so mad because I was tired of dealing with the pacifiers I cut the mobile pacifier right off and handed it to her and told Morgan that it was broken. She examined it for a minute cried a little more and stuck the pacifier that was tied to the bed in her mouth and eventually went to sleep.

I was so mad I went down starts and googled how to get rid of pacifiers. There was some really good ideas. One idea that a lady had was she cut the tip off of the pacifier and eventually after a week her son didn't care anymore. OK that would have helped me five minutes earlier!!! The next day without letting her see I cut the tip off of her pacifier that was tied to the crib. When it came nap time she put the pacifier in her mouth and she pulled it out and Morgan had a funny look on her face and I said passey broken. She said passey broke, but no that did not stop her she still sucked on it and went to sleep with it in her mouth.

For the past couple of weeks she will ask me where did passey go and I said you know where it's at so she will go in her room suck on it for a few seconds and move on. This child always has to have something in her mouth. Chris says it's her nicotine fix I agree. Let's hope she doesn't pick up smoking!

Some other ideas on the websites that I read were the pacifier fairies came, they gave them away to other babies. One person tried where you cut off the tip of the pacifier then slowly they cut off more. So that is the approach that I'm trying cutting the pacifier little by little so tonight was a big step for me. I cut more off not in front of her. Morgan put it in her mouth and notice something again was different. She said passey broken and I told her that she is a big girl and that she doesn't need a passey.

My other friend suggested maybe she needs something else to comfort her so the thought came to have one of her babies sleep with her because the stuffed Elmo and Minnie aren't doing the job. I told her do you want one of your babies to sleep with you she liked that idea. I dropped the string that the pacifier was just hanging on so she wouldn't wrap herself in it. I was again mentally preparing myself for her to cry in a few minutes and have it be a long night until she fell a sleep. I went down stairs turned on the TV I keep thinking I was hearing her, but it was the kids outside making the noise. I kept thinking she going to start freaking out. I kept watching the show that I was watching I still never heard from her. I check on her an hour later and she was fast asleep. It was a success for now she didn't want the pacifier because it's broken. I'm not saying I'm out of the woods, but it is progress for me and her. yeah!!!

One of the mornings she just wanted to lay there with

her passey


Next she asked me for her blanket so she could

snuggle with her passey. I thought it was actually cute

so I had to take pictures.