This week has marked a very big achievement in Aislyn's life. She has given up her dummy. It was a week of prep and it proved to work wonders and she is now dummy free.
What happened was that about a week ago (16 June 2010) I asked her if she would like to give her dummy away to the "Bin Men". She thought about it for about two seconds and then said "yes Mommy". I immediately took the opportunity to start the mental prep for the "Dummy Give away"
Through the next week I gentely reminded her that she was going to give her dummy away to the "Bin Men" on Wednesday and she said "Ok" every time and didn't put up a fight or showed any stress about it.
When the Tuesday came before the big day, I reminded her and made sure she understood that the dummy would be gone forever and not coming back if she gave it away. She assured me that she understood.
What really helped the situation, was that she bumped her upper lip on the the Tuesday afternoon and it was hurt in a place that made it sore for her to suck her dummy. That night was the first night that she went without it and it was great - but I thought that it might change if the dummy was really gone and there were no other options.
On the Wednesday, we couldn't wait for the "Bin Men" so I proceeded to move to option two. I normally take Aislyn with me to the recycling station just down the road from us and she mentioned during our one visit that she would be bringing her dummy to the recycling station - I said "no" at the time, but then realised that on the day of "Dummy give away" that would be best as a plan B.
So I took her there and she then took her Dummy and put it into the plastic recycling section. We waved goodbye and have never looked back.
She didn't moan for it during the night, and there has been no drama for it at all.
We are so grateful that it has been stress free and that she has been able to move on without her Dummy and is now a "Big Girl"
We're really proud of her.
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