to think that a toyshop shouldn't change the fur they make their bear with?

4 bears in two years?

I still have my elephant. He is 30 this year. Looks a bit worse for wear but its still him.

Dear god OP

4 bears in what, 5 minutes? is literally insane.
Get a fucking tracker chip for your daughter's toy! like this perhaps?

Is it just me that's wondering how you've managed to go through several in two years?!

Just wash him, he'll be fine. And depending on her age instigate a rule that he doesn't leave the house to prevent losses.

Ds1 has a doudou rabbit. He is 9 now. He was addicted to his doudou still is so we got a replacement and like you swapped them around and for a good while he was fooled. One day one got lost and we procured a replacement which was readily accepted. So we now had doudou1 and doudou3 with doudou2 having been lost. Then one day doudou3 was lost and so we procured doudou4 (getting replacements was a bit of a carry on because doudou came from France but thankfully that time my parents were there on holiday). Doudou4 arrived and was promptly rejected but happily doudou3 was miraculously found so doudou 4 was shelved somewhere. Then one day when ds was around 18 months old he suddenly started calling doudou1 "right doudou" and doudou3 "wrong doudou". He never again accepted doudou3.

Dd has 2 lions, has always happily accepted both and apart from a scary moment when she threw one in the river and it was rescued by a passing rower she has never lost one.

Anyway, fast forward several years and we have ds2. Ds2 never accepted a comfort toy, he must have been at least 2 and a half before he started sleeping with a toy. He picked up the neglected "wrong doudou", that is doudou3 one day and started refusing to go to sleep without it. Yippee! said I because he was a crap sleeper. When it seemed he was well attached I looked around for doudou4 to have a spare but I could never find it. In the meantime the wretched child also picked up a little white dog that dd bought at a school jumble sale and is therefore completely impossible to find a spare for.

Last week I was fishing around under the woodburner to find a bouncy ball and out came several lumps of coal, the biggest dust bunnies you ever saw in your life and doudou4! Goodness knows how long he was been under there, we are probably talking years. He went through the washing machine and has now been adopted by ds2. I'm quite pleased really,it is kind of nice that the reject is now loved, like he has finally fulfilled his purpose in life after all these years. Course the bloody child now goes to bed with doudou3 and 4 together plus the dog and I fear the consequences of a loss. Though the other day we couldn't find any of them so ds1 was very mature and donated doudou1 for the night and we coped.

I agree though, how a toy is made should never, ever be changed. All snuggly toys aimed at small children should be kept the same and if they are ever discontinued then a collection should be kept back in the warehouse for when the company is inevitably contacted by distraught parents. There should also be a law that if they ever run out of these the company agrees to manufacture more should the need arise.

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OP I think your lucky your dd have taken the new bear each time up to now.

DD3 had Rara (her way of saying rabbit) We got Rara just after her 1st birthday to give to her for her 2nd Christmas.

Within 3 weeks we realised Rara was " special" so we went looking for another one to have 2. Purchased after much searching a 2nd "rara" (turns out the £18 rabbit we bought in Lille is actually some really unusual Russian brand that cost us £56 to get into the UK 2nd time) 2nd Rara arrives and dd REFUSED to deal with it. That was not Rara its Rabi (who became the naughty rabbit that got blamed on EVERYTHING) years later Rara now just naps a lot in a box in her room (dd3 is 12) and Rabi has been donated elsewhere he looked almost as pristine as when he arrived.

(Rara in picture 3 years ago helping to stir the Christmas cake - I admit I miss him being around - 6 years ago I would NEVER have believed I one day would miss the darn thing but he became a part of our family)

I would wash the head in a sink of soapy water.

YABU to refer to your partner as Daddy.

Happy to help!

All my kids have only ever had one of their favourite bears, the only casualty has been the teddy belonging to my DS who lost it when he was 7. Somehow we managed through washing and vomiting without rotation. My sister has two versions of her DDs teddy and the fuss she goes through so DD doesn't see it in the washer and get confused at there actually being two teddies!!

On eBay now.

Look on e-bay for the old version.

This is why I am a mean mean mummy and only allow favoured bedtime toy downstairs when they are ill. And NEVER out of the house (barring holidays and hospital stays). I have two bunnies on rotation and hopefully that will see me through.

DD is 13 and still has her original (admittedly well worn) cuddly bear.

How many bears have you been through in two years??

i would bite the bullet and wash the sicked on teddy. done it loads with my DCs toys that claim to be wipe clean only: pop inside pillowcase tie it tight and wash on a quick 30 wash never had any problems with any of them!

whatever you decide to do, good luck! i know the agony first hand of dealing with lost precious cuddlies!

If you told us which bear it is, one of us might have an old discarded one floating around that we could send to you.

Have you thrown away the others you had?

We have only one 'doggy' he's now nearly eight and has been washed many times - he has beans in his body.
Hand wash cycle with wool detergent works well. When DS was little he used to watch him in the washer to check he was alright but grew out of that one after a couple of times.