the blanket fairy came last night..

blue_monkey_2

I was wondering how she was last night. I am glad it worked but I think I would have given it back but set some ground rules or just given it a good soak in bleach and a boil wash.

My daughter is 4 and my son is 3 and they both still ave 'blankies' they are cot sheets, but they only really have them when when they are tired. however, my daughter has aquired a very annoying habit of needing to 'sniff' me when she is tired or wants some comfort, and she has to sniff under my arm, LOL. If I am wearing more than one layer or clothes or if I am wearing something too thick she will try and take my top off - even in public - to have a sniff. I put my foot firmly down and say no!!! Why she has started doing it I do not know, at home is fine but elsewhere I won't let her do it.

roversbabe

Katyag wrote:

Heck im nearly 28 and i still have a comfort blanket!!! Well i lost it when i left home so took a liking to one of DH's jackets so bought him a new one and cut the sleeves off the old one! Crazy i know!:rotfl: Recently my mum found my old baby one and took it over for me and had a good laugh when i go so excited about it!!

Just cant sleep properly without knowing its in bed with me! (shh even took it to hospital when having DS!!)

I had mine til I was 20 :rotfl: :rotfl:

I left it at home when I moved out (meaning to collect it later) and my mum binned it - I was gutted

hardpressed

Iona_Penny wrote:

If it has worked and feel this is what you wanted then fine, but honestly ooobedo the child is TWO AND A HALF!!! I think the news this week has been that our children are growing up too fast. I personally think having something like this is a 'stress' reliever and relaxer, and no I am not suggesting they suffer from 'stress' the way adults do but I feel there is a very real place for these comforters, even for adults (as has been posted)

I couldn't agree more. How many adults have something special they wouldn't part with, why is a teddy acceptable but not a blanket?

floyd

I had a plampet until I was 10, my Mum let me keep it but my Dad hated it and was constantly trying to take it off me which made me want it even more. I called it my sniffy, it was an old fashioned blanket that had satin stitched around the edges. I loved the feel of it against my lip and used to sit smelling it for hours. Same with my dummy, think I was about 8 before I got rid of that

liney

I can see the point about Dummys; unhygenic, and possible problems with teeth.

But a blanket, in bed? I really don't understand the problem here. Noone sees it. Its not harmful. The child likes it.

My son has a sheet from his cot, which he rolls into a sausage and snuggles in bed. He could probably replace it with a teddy, but if he wants a sheet instead why should this bother me? Hes just over 2 and 8 months.

smileypigface

My daughter (now 12) had a cotton patchwork rabbit wearing dungarees which she woudn't be parted with - worried it would become manky .. or we would lose it while out and about - I bought a second one as a fall back and so I could alternate them for washing etc ....

Absolutely fine until I carelessly had left both on top of the washing machine .. small eagle eyes spotted them .. and a joyful cry of "TWO" went up!!!!!!!

So, that was me for the next 2 years .. neurotic about losing two flippin patchwork rabbits that had to be taken everywhere with us from then on!!!!:rotfl:

We still have the "Two" (as they were called from then on) hidden away in her bedroom!!!!

Cruiksl

Glad your little one managed to get to sleep. My dd who is 2.5 has a teddy that was given to her when she was born. She loves this so much that if she's been naughty then we punish her by taking it away. She's inconsolable at the time but gets it back when she's good.

It's pretty manky now but she only has it at bedtime or asks for it when she's really upset and tired.

Our problem is her bottle - she won't drink milk out of anything else and I know I have to bite the bullet and get rid of it but at the moment she drinks about half a pint of milk from it !

blue_monkey_2

Our problem is her bottle - she won't drink milk out of anything else and I know I have to bite the bullet and get rid of it but at the moment she drinks about half a pint of milk from it !

Ah yes, we had this as well but we took DD and sons away at the same time (as only 14 months between them) when DD was 2 1/2 and son was 15 months, now they have a cup, my son has his 'baby' lid on it as he drinks it lying down and it goes everywhere, my daughter has the lid off after it broke. Maybe it is time to damage the teat of the bottle so it comes out too fast or lose the bottle (go ask him to find it, when he can't say maybe we should use the cup instead and offer a treat for the next morning, if you use the cup and go to sleep we can have a trip to the store for a magazine, toy, etc.. what ever they love playing with as a special treat for using the bottle) but have a cup ready - it is hard not to relelent but after a couple of days it is forgotten and the cup becomes the norm. At the time of getting rid of the bottle and dummy I felt a complete b**** and I cannot even describe the guilt I was under but it is for the best - the longer you leave it the harder it is going to be I promise. With the dummy my daughter cried for about an hour that night crying something is missing mummy and I suggested she sucked her finger, now she does all the time when tred or to get to sleep, it was very hard and I will not tell you anything otherwise, you have to have an iron will not to give in. My friends son still has a bottle at age 4 1/2 and he will not drink for anything else but I have told her the same, things like dummies and bottles they are not going to give up without a fight and better do it now rather than later when they scream louder and remember for longer!! Do it at a time when your son is not ill or needs extra comfort as this is nt the right time to do it, however, when you get woken up 6 times a night with screams of 'Mummy, Mummy get my dummy now' enough is enough and it had to go!!