do your sleep with a "wooby"

Dakota has a favorite bunny and Logan has a baby gund blue puppy (which happens to be impossible to find). They HAVE to sleep with them and carry them around during the day. Dakota's isn't bad because he doesn't suck on it. He holds it close while he sucks his thumb. Logan on the other hand sucks the tail and ears on the puppy which makes it nasty and disgusting and wet all the time. The bunny came from walmart which I found since the easter stuff is out. I washed them to "clump" up the hair like his. With the puppy I finally found one on ebay and got that today. (again very hard to find since it is retired and now expensive when it is found) Washed all of them and tried switching them out. I swear it was traumatizing the boys by doing so. So in order to get sleep tonight I had to give the "old" ones back. Any Ideas on how to transition to the newer versions of their "woobies". I mean they screamed top of thier lungs, to the point of almost throwing up because they KNEW it wasn't the original woobies. Please any suggestions will be helpful. Also I should add that washing the puppy everyday isn't an option since we have a community washer and dryer and have to pay for each load to wash and dry.

Keri

 

Dakota has a favorite bunny and Logan has a baby gund blue puppy (which happens to be impossible to find). They HAVE to sleep with them and carry them around during the day. Dakota's isn't bad because he doesn't suck on it. He holds it close while he sucks his thumb. Logan on the other hand sucks the tail and ears on the puppy which makes it nasty and disgusting and wet all the time. The bunny came from walmart which I found since the easter stuff is out. I washed them to "clump" up the hair like his. With the puppy I finally found one on ebay and got that today. (again very hard to find since it is retired and now expensive when it is found) Washed all of them and tried switching them out. I swear it was traumatizing the boys by doing so. So in order to get sleep tonight I had to give the "old" ones back. Any Ideas on how to transition to the newer versions of their "woobies". I mean they screamed top of thier lungs, to the point of almost throwing up because they KNEW it wasn't the original woobies. Please any suggestions will be helpful. Also I should add that washing the puppy everyday isn't an option since we have a community washer and dryer and have to pay for each load to wash and dry.

Keri

 

Mine do sleep with loveys (a bunny and a puppy actually!), but I refuse to allow them out of the cribs b/c of the issue of them getting dirty, etc. Is there any way you could convince them that they are for sleep time only? Then they wouldn't take as much abuse? I've had to sew Catherine's bunny a few times, but she loves it just the same. At some point I gave them each a 2nd and totally different lovey, but they've never really taken to them the way they did to the first set. Although they do insist on sleeping with both sets.

 

I definitely think children of this age need a comforting item. My idea might be hard for a few days till they transfer their affection to the new ones, but do you think you could substitute another "wooby" that is easier to wash, like the blanket lovies with the animal heads (I don't know how to describe them)? Also, only let them use the wooby at naptime and bedtime. Then you could wash them every few days or so. It might be doable, like giving up a pacifier. Just hard to live through for a few days.

 

Ryan has a Tigger that we named "Bear". Anyhow it was given to him when he was born and at about 6 months I gave it to him to sleep with. He is obsessed with that critter. I got a new one and tried to give it to him and he would just look at it and toss it away. So it has been hanging out in his crib in the hopes that someday he might like it. So now he carries both of them around. And he has to have both of them to sleep, but he still prefers the original one. The one thing I do limit is that we do not take it out of the house.

 

Well they slept through the night with original woobies. This morning though, when logan tried bring his out with him I took it and gave him the new one. He didn't protest for now. Dakota on the other hand, flipped when I even tried taking the original to give him the new one. He will take them both and carry them around but when it comes to comfort, he looks for the original. There is a difference in color on the bunnies, his original is purple the new is blue (I couldn't find a purple one). I don't know if he really knows the difference or not. We have tried just keeping it for sleep time, but if one gets his feelings hurt, or hurt or whatever the case may be, he is inconsolible until wooby is in his arms. And at that point there is no taking it away or the screaming starts all over again.

Keri

 

word to the wize.. i had a thumbalina doll.. that i slept with adn that i was responsible for as a child..

when i forgot to bring her to my sitters( aunts) mom ran late to wk because she had to go home .. by the time she returned i was asleep..
but i wanted her..

things like that are special and go up on a shelf for the day.. or stay in the crib.. until bed time..

also.. my son was just over one when i ordered him a new ( dog - dog) well this thing .. came three sizes bigger than the beene baby i had before.. i also go one for each of the twins..
that way they each have their own of the very same thing..

do it before they can talk back..

now my son says weres my night light.. wheres my dog dog and wheres my BA! THAT BA AKA BINKI.. IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY..

 

we have woobies too! a kitty (alisha) and a doggy (cameron). i recognized pretty early on that they were becoming attached, so i ordered duplicates. this was when they were around one year. they don't seem to care which kitty/ doggy they have, and while i'm pretty sure they know there are two, i usually keep one of them tucked away. but they aren't allowed out of their room.

good luck!