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KB9595
Need advice
My daughter will be 2 June 5th. We took the paci away May 1st.
Back history: She only had it at nap/bedtime and we just took it away cold turkey. She used to love going to bed and would walk in there and even try to climb into her crib. She has never really liked to be rocked to sleep so we have always just put her in her crib and she’d fall asleep on her own. She was also a great napper and would sleep most days 2hrs and sleep all night as well
The 1st night of no paci she screamed and we set a timer and went in there comfort her and ended up bringing her to our bed.
2nd night was better. But brought her to our bed and then moved her to her bed.
3rd night cried for a while and then went to sleep on her own
4th night same at 3rd night
5th night cried for like 2 minutes then was asleep.
And every night since then she will cry/scream to the point of making herself gag and puke and she has now slept in our bed every night and nap time. If we try to transfer her she wakes up the second we put her down and screams and now if we even mention her crib she throws a fit and screams.
Soooo how do I get her out of my bed? We are considering getting a twin sized toddler bed so that we can lay with her and then leave her room. (We will be having another baby in September so that might be a bit difficult but I feel like it’s at least a start. Any idea how to get her to sleep on her own again?
I feel like my husband and I are our daughter’s new pacifier.
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RHG5mama
I would make the switch to the toddler bed. We haven't taken the paci away yet for bedtime but we were having a similar issue, where our son ended up in our bed every night. (went through a tough few months of illness, teething etc). He took to it immediately and he is back sleeping through the night in his own room. There's been some times he's ended up in our bed again but that was when he had more teeth coming in. For the most part, he stays in his room. We can't break the paci habit here though... as soon as we walk in his room he starts asking for it.
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carrie2619
Try using these teethers; they worked for us and are soft and hollow so I don’t think they are bad for them to use. I just told mine that it was his night night teether and he took it in place of a pacifier for naps (we’d already dropped it for bedtime)
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alyssams897
Does she have a stuffy/lovey? That helped my girl when she was younger.
Guaranteed now if anything happens to Gilbert the giraffe it’s a nightmare but ����♀️��
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Rocky123
Ugh we’re in a similar situation! My baby just turned two and I had planned to take the soother away, but he’s insisting on sleeping in our bed even WITH the soother! He falls asleep and then wakes up the minute we lay him in the crib. He’s been sick with a cold and that’s not helping. I have found that he is a little better in the playpen (in our room), but he knows how to get out of it. Starting to think the issue is he wants to control being able to get in and out of bed. He can’t get out of the crib and I didn’t want to switch him until we HAD to, partly because he shares a room with my oldest boy and I don’t want him trying to join his brother in his bed!
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