Ellie has been in bed now for almost an hour WITHOUT her pacifier – at her request. I took out her monitor for our trip to Florida over Christmas and didn’t see the need to return it, but now I would love to know if she is in there tossing and turning or sleeping contentedly.
We gave her a pacifier in China on our first day with her. Her paperwork said she chewed on the edge of a blanket so my mom suggested I take a few pacifiers. I have always been so happy with how much comfort she gets from her “paci and taggie”. A mother wants her child to have comfort, especially when she hasn’t always been able to be sure it was always there. I haven’t felt the conviction to force her to give it up, nor have I made a big deal about it to her, but I have begun to pray that God will make it an easy transition for her when the time is right.
Ellie’s real motivation here is GUM. She loves the smell of Hannah’s Stride Sweet Berry gum (sugarless, of course) and wants to be big enough to have it. A couple of months ago she decided that when she gave up the paci, she could begin to have gum. Sounded reasonable to me.
Anyway, it could still go either way because I know she sometimes wakes in the middle of the night to get her paci…