You only had one for bed. It had been part of your life for over 3 years. It comforted you. But you'd had it longer than we wanted you to.... to be honest, in an ideal world you'd never have had one at all. But when you were a baby and were suffering from colic it helped soothe you. At the time, it was a means to an end. After so long, we came to the conclusion that it wasn't really fair to take it away from you when you didn't understand why. So we had left it until this point. You were old enough to understand what we are telling you and agree to the decision.
Last Friday night you we very cooperative in leaving your dummies in an envelope outside the fairy door on our skirting board. We had stories as normal and you were excited to find out what the dummy fairy would leave you in return the next day.
That night, I listened to you cry yourself to sleep over the baby monitor. Literally! You made no attempts to get out of bed, you were such a good boy and really persevered. But it was hard.
The next few nights you asked for it. You said you weren't a big boy anymore and you wanted them back. We explained that they had gone now and we couldn't get them back. You accepted this and went to sleep quite quickly with no tears or fuss.
A week has gone by and you don't even bother to ask anymore. You have broken the habit. I am so proud of you.
But ditching the dummy has brought about something completely new for us all. Until that point you still napped every day. For about two hours per day. Now, no dummy seems to equal no naps. You haven't napped since we took them away. Dear god what have we done haha....
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