Weaning.

I'm not quite sure how soon we gave Tash a pacifier but it's not something I thought about before doing, I just did it. It was one of those things where you see them everywhere and just 'assume' it's one of those things that everyone does. The only ground rule I made was that my child would not have a pacifier clipped to their shirt at age 2+ in public. :p She also never (not since we was wee anyway) get it outside of nap and bedtime. She knows the pacifier does not leave the room and will actually take it out when you go in to get her in the morning and hand it to you unless she's dropped it on the floor.

Anywho, for a couple of months now Owen and I have brought up about weaning Tash off her pacifier. We have never actually said "Ok, let's get rid of the pacifier" we've just discussed that we should probably do it before we move her to her twin bed. The only step I made towards weaning it was removing the "collection" of about 8 of them from the change table to a drawer in her closet, only leaving out 2.

Last night I had to work and when I got home Owen told me that he had a super tough time getting Tash to sleep. I asked him why, was she not tired? He then goes on to explain that she was crying sooo hard he thought she had hurt herself and went up to her room to comfort her. Nothing helped so he finally gave her a pacifier. This is where I sit there, staring at him and ask "Umm why did she not have one?" and he goes on to say "Well I've not been giving her one at bedtime for about 2 weeks now, I thought we were weaning her off of it?? She's not complained once any of the times in the last 2 weeks I've not given it to her"

Why yes, we were "talking" about when, but never actually said "OK let's do it". I was really curious about how useful it was to wean her when only one of us was aware that we were actually doing it. So, since I do naptimes I was giving her a pacifier, and because my only participation at bedtime is a hug and kiss before she goes upstairs, I had no idea Owen was not giving her one.

In typical man style, he just laughed and was like "Oh well I guess she knew we were weaning her and changed her mind!" Umm yeah changed her mind all right.