05-06-2003 16:54									#31
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Er... I dunno, can we give you one now and find out?

	05-06-2003 17:15									#32
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or you could let us talk to your gf about the matter...

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	05-06-2003 22:13									#33
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Daniel generally sleeps in at 7PM instantly when put to bed (except for today: I put him to bed some 20min. ago and he still goes "njeanjeanjea" in this really annoying steadiness only babies can do), mainly because he just refuses to go to sleep during the day, unless driving in the car.
Whether or not to "just let them cry" depends on the caracter of the baby. Once Daniel was already extremely tired in the early afternoon but we didn't plan to drive around, so I just put him in his bed. He just refused, he was constantly turning around and standing up in his bed again, so I put him back in sleeping position again in some intervals. He did that for over an hour and finally we took him out of his bed, while I had to go to bed after that...

	05-06-2003 22:16									#34
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You can make them go to bed at five without any pacifier... It's called peppermint schnoppz...

	05-06-2003 22:17									#35
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"He just refused, he was constantly turning around and standing up in his bed again, so I put him back in sleeping position again in some intervals."

Whenever Sophie does that, we just ignore her. "Deal with it kid, your parents are taking 4:00-4:30 off" is pretty much our attitude.

	05-06-2003 22:19									#36
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"Has Sophie got a security blanket or favorite dolly or stuffy toy?"

Yeah, she's got all that. Sometimes she sleeps with her baby-doll, sometimes with Barney, all the time with a little bear that has been in her "bed" since she was a wee one.

	05-06-2003 22:36									#37
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Soak the pacifier in vinegar. It's harmless and let's your baby be in control of getting rid of it.

	05-06-2003 23:13									#38
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If Sophie doesn't do well, we'll try that. Good idea! (especially compared to the idea of wiping it on Mr. Fun's bunghole. :retch: )

	06-06-2003 00:20									#39
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Alcohol (beer) works too (at least shorterm )

	06-06-2003 00:33									#40
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None of that in our house. Both the wife and I are allergic to alcohol. (At least I know I am. Laura claims to be, but I've seen her drink wine before. The lush.)

	06-06-2003 00:34									#41
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According to Laura, Sophie had no problem going down for her morning nap w/o the pacifier. Fingers are crossed...

	06-06-2003 02:56									#42
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If Sophie is anything like I was, it will be easier to get her to recite Shakespear in Swedish than it will be to get rid of her dummy/pacifier. Once my mum finally got me off it, I turned around and used a stuffed toy as a replacement. I still have it, a little cloth lizard. So many memories. Sometimes, it's the only thing that makes the pain bearable.....

That lizard is also part of a story of international theft and smuggling but that's another day.

	06-06-2003 03:40									#43
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Gee, Starchild not wanting to give up sucking on something. What a shock!

	06-06-2003 14:39									#45
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Oh look, Boris is back! Someone finally managed to pry him away from a K-Mart.

	06-06-2003 15:10									#46
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I don't think my parents gave me a pacifier when I was a baby. I did always have something to carry around though, like measuring cups that all fit inside each other, or lego people.

	06-06-2003 15:13									#47
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I had a piece of blanket which had that shiny sily stuff on it. I couldn't sleep without it until i was about 7

	07-06-2003 22:00									#48
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My parents used a very devious trick to get my pacifier away from me (I was addicted, I admit it--I had a problem and had not given it over to my Higher Power) at about the age of 4. The told me at Christmas time that Santa needed it for some other godforsaken kid. I guess I gave it up, reluctantly of course, but if I had only known that it was merely the first chapter in a long and sordid story of material goods used for emotional manipulation by them, I may have stood my ground.

My son had a pretty bad cold or pneumonia or something when he was about 10 months old and we just took it away since he couldn't breath properly (kind of like quitting smoking when you're too sick to enjoy it--not that I've ever been that sick, mind you!) and he didn't seem to mind too much.
Switching bottles for tip cups has been a bit more of a challenge however, but he's such an agreeable lad that it hasn't been too tough. Who can blame him for fighting the revocation of nipple?!?
He's getting to be a bit of a pill at bedtime though...I end up falling asleep on the bed with him and waking up with a teddy bear on my face and a book jammed into my spine.
Can't wait to see how Zane reacts to all of this...he's a horse of a different color altoghether...very gassy and cranky, like his mother!