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Pacifiers - disadvantages

January 28, 2009 – 9:58 pm

Below are the reasons why I don’t like to use pacifiers:

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Using pacifiers

January 21, 2009 – 11:40 pm

When my third child came along, we watched her carefully to see if she has thumb sucking problem also. I made sure she slept with me

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Why didn’t we use the pacifier

January 19, 2009 – 5:18 am

I’ve always been very against using pacifier. Somehow, I just didn’t like my children to be addicted to something. But guess what

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Did my child stop sucking her thumb completely?

January 16, 2009 – 3:45 am

Well, her nightmares continued for a while, and after a few months she finally stopped waking up at night to throw tantrum. And yes, she did not suck her thumb to sleep at all since the day she ‘lost’ her favorite bolster cover. But

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What we had to go through to keep her from sucking her thumb

January 14, 2009 – 4:12 am

My child’s withdrawal symptom (from the thumb-sucking addiction) was literally a nightmare. For the subsequent days, she would wake up in the middle of the night and cried and threw tantrum for about 2 hours each night.

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How we persisted to reduce her thumb-sucking addiction

January 12, 2009 – 3:58 am

Meanwhile, I hid her favorite bolster cover that was supposed to be in the wash in a place where nobody knows except me.

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Methods to reduce thumb sucking

January 5, 2009 – 3:26 am

I was getting quite desperate as my child was approaching 2 years old, and she was still sucking her thumb before or while she sleeps. I read that a child’s thumb-sucking habit is considered serious if they suck their thumbs past 2nd birthday,

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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Pacifiers - disadvantages

Using pacifiers

Why didn’t we use the pacifier

Did my child stop sucking her thumb completely?

What we had to go through to keep her from sucking her thumb

How we persisted to reduce her thumb-sucking addiction

Methods to reduce thumb sucking

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