So, it's ok to tape the pacifier to their mouths, right?

Just kidding, of course.

I wish I never introduced what seems to be this necessity to them! And I sware they watch me with one eye opened as I walk away after standing over them for 10 minutes making sure it stayed in while they fell asleep. They wait 'til I walk away and then BOINK!...out of the kisser and babies are wailing. And then the obligatory 10 minute or more standing over them and waiting starts all over again....

Things such as this are the reason God made them cute....

 

Just kidding, of course.

I wish I never introduced what seems to be this necessity to them! And I sware they watch me with one eye opened as I walk away after standing over them for 10 minutes making sure it stayed in while they fell asleep. They wait 'til I walk away and then BOINK!...out of the kisser and babies are wailing. And then the obligatory 10 minute or more standing over them and waiting starts all over again....

Things such as this are the reason God made them cute....

 

I need detachable boobs!! my babies want to nurse 24/7!!!
which is fine - except nothing else gets done and I'm sure my
couch has my butt print on it forever!

 

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Originally posted by Heathermomof5:
and I'm sure my
couch has my butt print on it forever!
I now want to take a picture of my (newly puke spattered) couch and show you the indentation in the middle from me sitting on it with them!

 

For a while there I seriously considered using rubberbands... looping the rubberband through the holes in the binkie, then around James' ears. Oh well, it's shortlived phase at least!

 

Oh how I had a love/hate relationship with the pacifier. I loved that it calmed them down but hated that they didn't know how to keep the darn things in their mouths! Just as they were falling asleep always the paci would fall out and awake they were! I stopped using them except to hold them over until a feeding.

 

I know you're not supposed to do this, but when they were that age, I used to prop the binky in place with a receiving blanket. I'd swaddle the baby and then loosly cover the binky with the top blanket. My DS never learned to get the binky in by himself and we broke him of the habit two weeks ago - does great now.

 

Duct tape works great . . . ha-ha!

 

haha, your title made me chuckle. I luckily had only one that took a pacifier and was relieved when at 3 months, she found her thumb. Now I know that I won't be relieved in a year or two when she is still sucking her thumb and there's no way to break that, but atleast her thumb stayed in her mouth.

DS never took a paci, but also didn't sleep so well at first.

Anyway, DD still sucks her thumb but only when I put her in the crib for a nap or bed.

Have you tried swaddling? That may curb their sucking craving or atleast help them fall asleep faster so when the paci falls out, it won't matter...

On the other hand, I have heard sucking a paci is good for them when they are smaller.

 

I know what you mean exactly! Until...I found The Binky Buddy at binkybuddyUSA.com (i hope it is okay to put this link, if not PM me). it is a piece of fabric with a loop on top that has velcro underneath, and the velcro holds the pacifier in. We ordered them, and let me tell you, they were lifesavers! We just received two more, so that I can actually wash them and still have a set. They are great! (by the way, my babies are 6.5 months old, and they STILL cannot keep those pacifiers in their mouths! They have a much easier time with the binky buddies- not only keeping them in (i snap them to their sleep sacks with the little flaps that cover the zippers at the top), but also picking them up on their own. Work great in the cars as well!

 

As if the "POP" and it's out wasn't bad enough, mine have figured out how to reach up, grab the ring and pull it out themselves...then they lay there and wail while flailing their arms with the bink they are trying to capture is tightly grasped in their little fingers.

How long til they can get it back in???

 

LOL, DH always asked me if they came with chin straps! Apparently from the pp info they really do! LOL! DD finally figured out how to keep them/find them at 4/5 months (I ALWAYS have 3 in the crib with her so what ever way she is facing she can find one. DS stopped taking them at 3 months and never looked back, although he's my snuggle bug and is the one that has trouble going down by himself - DD on the other hand just needs her paci (or 4 LOL) and she's good to go, so it's hard for me to not like the little things!

 

Oh man...you could make millions if you could find a way to patent a binky-holder-inner!!!!!

This was by far one of the most challenging parts in the beginning for me. We had severe binky addicts and they were very content...if they had a binky. They will get really good at holding onto that puppy, just wait and see. It will just take a tad longer.

 

We found that staples work better

 

Well Those first few weeks were the worst. I DID NOT want them to have a paci for that exact reason. Well my last night at the hospital the nurses in the nursery gave them one. I was PISSED. Every night running up and down the hall to put them back in. Holding them in their mouth for them and then the second I went to walk away POP out it comes and then they would start screaming. Luckily both babies gave them up around 4-5 weeks old.

 

We put a few drops of mylicon on the paci and used the swaddle blanket to hold it in and it worked. We are bad parents.

Thankfully Kate decided at around 3 months that she didn't want the paci, and I am now trying to wean Lindsay off it because the dogs eat them and I am tired of buying them, and also because she pulls it out of her mouth and cries for me to put it back in. I'm done with that game.

 

i've noticed that babies that were in the NICU can hold their binks in while our darling boys....just learned to hold it in themselves at prolly 4 months. At 7 months now, we're finally able to put it back in our mouths after it comes out. The day will come ladies....when they do put it back in.