Nathan has always loved his binkie. From the first time we gave the binkie to him at the hospital he has been hooked. Sometimes he will have one binkie in his mouth and one in his hand and still cry for another. So taking away the binkie was a really hard decision for Matt and I. We had planned to take it away at 12 months, then 15 months, and we still weren't decided if we were going to take it away at 18 months or not.
Well we went swimming with Brittany and Bryce on Saturday and got home pretty late. Nathan was exhausted and was crying to go to bed. But I couldn't find a binkie anywhere. I searched for five minutes which seems like an eternity with a crying toddler when Matt finally told me to just put him down without it. He was so tired from the day that he gave up within five minutes and fell asleep.
We couldn't believe that he fell asleep without it. And that was just the push we needed to take it away. We survived sacrament meeting with only one temper tantrum right at the end and successfully put him down for two binkie free naps. At this point we were feeling really motivated and decided we would send him to daycare on Monday without a binkie. ( Matt was calm, I was panicked)
Surprisingly the daycare said he was the best behaved he had ever been. They said he fell asleep for his nap within two minutes and slept longer than normal. He ate breakfast and lunch and didn't fuss or cry. And he did not try tbinkies from them!
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Last night was the hardest night. He was so tired from daycare and Matt was working late but he missed his dad. But after 10 minutes of crying, then 10 minutes of rocking my little champ fell asleep and slept the whole night.
I'm so proud of my little guy! We had no idea he would handle this transition so well and I am so glad that we were pushed to finally take away the binkie. I know it will be better for Nathan!
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