Binky No More

So, I'm not sure how this happened. Lily has not had the binky during the day in quite some time and we have been building it up for her to give it to Emma. Suddenly, we thought this could be the wrong thing to do. A couple of things could happen. One, no problems at all and it would go relatively smoothly. Two, Emma has it while we're at a store and Lily realizes it's hers so she takes it out of Emma's mouth to transfer to her own. This could happen anywhere. Three, Lily begins to dislike Emma and "forgets" that she actually gave her binkys away.



All scenarios except for the first one are not at all ideal. And, not wanting a toddler and an infant with binkys led to the take away of Lily's. Let me just say, we just did it. We went cold turkey and Mike and I didn't second guess our decision. Well, Mike didn't anyway.



We did this on one of Mike's long weekends because I wasn't going to do this alone. Here's how it all went down:


1st Night: Thursday, went extremely well. Only asked for it once, didn't fuss when put in her crib and only one whining spell through the night that she worked out on her own.


1st Nap: Friday, not so great. Not so great at all. Asked for it repeatedly, cried even while on my lap. Put her down in crib to work out and screamed the entire time. Screamed a let me get all sweaty, hair sticking to my face kinda scream. I heard on the monitor, Maammmaaaa over and over. I gave in. She got her binky and slept for an hour and a half.


2nd Night: Friday, perfect. Mike put her down and she didn't even ask for it!


2nd Nap: Saturday, perfect. Mike did nap as well.


3rd Night: Saturday, perfect. Didn't ask for it, cry or get up in the middle of the night.


All day Sunday and Monday absolutely perfect! No crying, NO NOTHING!!!


Now we get to Tuesday nap time...my turn.


HORRIBLE! Got her to sleep, but only for half an hour.


As of now, Sunday night while I'm typing this I have yet to conquer nap time. At a time in which I desperately need her to take naps she isn't so we have resorted to our nap/quiet time in Mommy's bed which has actually worked and I get a nap too.





The drama continues....