My girl Ava has been completely obsessed with her Mimi aka pacifier, since we got home from the hospital 2 years ago. We always knew the day would come where we’d have to take it away from her so we don’t have to spend thousands in orthodontia work when shes a teen. Oh and all those other issues that arise with the binkies, too. But it was breaking our hearts to take it away, even though we knew it was for her own good. She literally loves this froggy to pieces and sobs when ever its not with her and she needs it’s comfort.
So I bit the bullet, put my foot down and decided to get rid of this thing once and for all. With the new baby coming, I knew it was now or never and the last thing I wanted was having a 2 1/2 year old walking around with a bally, raggity frog hanging from her face.
I read up on how to do it and advice from other moms on different sites. They seem to say the cutting off the tip of the binky does the trick. So that is what I did…..over a month ago. She cried when we gave it to her and said it was broken but still wanted to have it. She couldn’t suck on it, but she continues to bite it and just keep it in her mouth. My husband and I thought, ‘Ok-we’ll let her hold on to it and see how it goes”.
5 am rolls around and she cries for me. And doesn’t stop. I felt like I was in this episode of Family Guy with Stewie screaming for Mom. Yeah, that episode is hysterical, but not at the crack of dawn!
I give her the cut binky because it falls out of the crib and she goes back to sleep til about 6:30 am. Now, my little sweets was sleeping till almost 7:30-8 am every day since she was 3 months old. Is she trying to get my ass used to the early wake up calls when the new baby comes or what?!
I gave up. I admit defeat. Complete and utter defeated. Blame it on the pregnancy, blame it on my love for sleep and knowing that it will be my last time to sleep through the night for god knows how long, but I gave in. She now uses an orthodontic pacifier and her cut mimi.
This war is not over. Once this baby gets the hell out of me I will regain my strength and will power.
Until then…..the score sits at Ava-1, Me-0.
Le Sigh.
– Amanda
