With all of my other kids i knew when they were ready to be done with the bottle, binki, and needed the side off of the crib. Most of them were off the bottle at 12 months we gave T.J. two extra months so that he could have the comfort of the bottle while he was going through his surgery. They all just walked away from it like pro's. Except Pearson if he even saw a bottle for months afterward o.k. even cree's baby doll bottles now he still tries to drink out of!!!!
As for the binki all of my kids right around 18 months threw them away and were fine. I always worried but they did great and we never have much problem. Well i totally don't feel prepared to take Pearsons away we started letting him have it less around the time he turned one but right after he went through a phase were he had to have it all the time and i should have said no but didn't. I finally started phasing it back out last month. Trying not give it to him but at nap and bed time. But we are all dealing with the fall out of that. He screams high pitched all the time and you can' t figure out what he wants it just gets worse and worse.
Well yesterday i couldn't take him ruining the computer room, and truthfully i don't like keeping him in a pink room(can't change the color since i'm not allowed to move the computer desk, i did add blue and brown dots around his bed on the wall). Anyway we had been talking about moving him in with Creedance since she should be moving downstairs hopefully some time soon. So i moved him in there and decided to see if we could take away think binki and leave the side of the crib, so it is sort of like a day bed.
The no binki ended as soon as Tyler showed up with the scouts to stain and spray paint flag holders in the basement. I tried not to get mad but 10 boys all in the basement got very loud upstairs and Pearson couldn't handle it sooo out came the binki. I only had to lay him down the once, once he had the binki and he went straight to sleep. He did fall out once in the middle of the night but went right back to bed once i put him back on it. We did have a problem around 4 when he decided he wasn't tired. He didn't get out but kept getting louder and louder.
I decided i need a three day policy and shouldn't change anything until i had tried it that long. But at nap time today i almost caved. I had to put him back in his bed 5 times. Before he finally fell asleep. I am glad i stuck with it, but am wondering if i should put the side back on let him get used to the new room for a couple of weeks. Then take away the binki. And then in a couple of months try taking off the side again.
I HATE DECISIONS!!!!!
2 years ago
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OOH I'm glad for that post-- Porter never tooka bink-- me - I was his bink-- and the bottle well that has made sleeping soo easy -- but Now I'm trying to get rid of it- -and its hard-- he does great at Jodi's-- sleeps in the pack n play -- but now I'm trying to get rid of it at night time-- and its hard hard hard-- I feelb ad when he cries and I know if he had it - he'd be happy -- and now we're thinking about moving him to a bed-- EEK! this mom stuff is hard!!
Sometimes its me who wants the pacifier more than the kid...something to shut them up! Especially at church (I sound horrible, don't I?). As far as getting out of the crib, it was totally up to them. Ryan is still in it and loves it, Garrett was out by now cuz he hated it. My nephew was in it until he was 4! (way too long!). Good luck with the bed and bink!
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