Savage: party of 3: ...One Giant Leap for Chloe Savage

Relax folks, we're not walking or anything. Today marks the day that Chloe Marie Savage will only be getting her pacifier at bed time. Bum Bum Buuuummm! We were going to do bed time and naps during the day, but she slept in this morning, so her routine got kinda out a whack. It was hard to tell whether she was actually tired and ready for a nap or she just wanted her binky, so we made the decision on the fly to try only giving it to her at bed time. The reason why is because she's become way too dependant on it. She's at the point where she can't sooth herself to back to sleep if she wakes up and it's not in her mouth. So I'm up 5 or 6 times in the middle of the night just to put it back in her mouth (so not cool). After a couple weeks of this, Kris and I made a parenting decision to start weaning her off the binky early. Our friends Dave and Marla are going out town so I won't have to watch Addie for about a week and we won't have to go anywhere or do anything, so we figured this is as good a time as any. We're starting, like I said, by giving it to her only at bed time which doesn't really solve my up-in-the-middle-of-the-night problem now, but it sets us up to take it away at night too. I think because she is so dependant on it, going cold turkey would just be a nightmare.