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to think if I purchase 8 billion dummies

60 replies

VegansTasteBetter · 26/06/2012 02:54

at least one should be somewhere I can find it.

Just one?

anyone coming on to tell me that dc shouldn't have them anyway can fuck the fuck off to kingdom Fuckdom

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sleeplessinsuburbia · 26/06/2012 02:58

I have some on clips so they can't get lost. They still do...

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VegansTasteBetter · 26/06/2012 03:01

I think hey disappear to wherever all the left socks go sleepless

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Grumpla · 26/06/2012 04:26

Mine usually end up in DH's jacket pockets.

When I say "mine" I mean "dummies which I have purchased for DS" not "dummies which I chew maniacally during the increasingly short intervals between my feeds". That would just be weird.

sleeplessinsuburbia · 26/06/2012 04:29

It's terrible when i put 5 in the cot and they're inside it somewhere but I can't find one in the middle of the night.

Daenerys · 26/06/2012 04:40

I read that they got lost in your dh's jacket potatoes...
I have glow in the dark ones for dd. we still lose them

LurkingAndLearningForNow · 26/06/2012 04:44

When I was a toddler apparently you could not and I mean could not get to sleep without a dummy in my mouth, one for each hand and a spare 'just in case.' All ended up carefully hidden in my secret places the following day.

Any chance your kids are trying out my own special form of Hell?

YASOOOOOONBU

PoppyWearer · 26/06/2012 05:01

Good plan OP, might try it myself as clearly my purchase of 6 billion dummies hasn't been enough.

Every time DS goes to childcare of some kind I send two dummies and am lucky if I get one back! They're all named.

At home, DS flings them down the side of his cot or sofa.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/06/2012 05:12

The same place DD hides her bloody security blankets. Bloody wormhole in space.

ScarletLadyOfTheNight01 · 26/06/2012 06:15

Oh God don't...last night was the first night I left my 18 month old to go to sleep since she was 10 months old and she suddenly started not sleeping...

I'd finally had enough of sitting up there, sometimes up to two hours a night, waiting for her to go to sleep. We had half an hour of crying (with frequent reassuring visits from me) and then she actually WENT TO SLEEP!!!

Not too shabby I thought...until she woke up two hours later and I could NOT find her dummy...it had fallen out of her cot on the wall side...cue me lying on the floor groping blindly in the dark trying to get it...then she amazingly went back to sleep...with me stuck on the floor with my arm under the cot not quite sure what to do with myself...

Isn't it amazing how, as a mother, you develop ninja skills of sneakiness! Anyway, I fished out the dummy in the end, but it was very stressful. I normally have a spare by the monitor...except when I bloody need it!

MammaTJ · 26/06/2012 06:34

Read 'A place Called Here' by Cecelia Ahern (she of P.S. I Love You fame) it explains it all. It tells you where all the missing things, and people go.

My DD had dummies. When we decided Tinkerbell was going to take them all away one day, when she was nearly 3, DP found 38 around the house!!

I took the one out of her mouth while she was sleeping, she had fallen asleep on the way home from pre-school. Tinkerbell left her a tinkerbell game and when she went to bed later found that tinkerbell had given her tinkerbell bedding!! She was obsessed with Tinkerbell at the time!

We were still finding them 6 months later though.

EveryPicture · 26/06/2012 06:38

YANBU.

I kept spares in my bedside cabinet, my bathroom cabinet, my handbag, DS's bedroom drawers and still had times when I couldn't find them. Really annoying.

Spatsky · 26/06/2012 06:46

Yabu. Dummies will always go missing. I think there is actually a dummy fairy that comes and steals tHem inthe night.

My husband once reached in his pocket and handed a customer a dummy instead of a business card. Husband or partners pockets are definitely a good starting place to look.

Magneto · 26/06/2012 06:50

I always keep about 10 or so on various shelves and windowsills between by bed and ds's bed so I can always pick one up on the way to him. Stops me having to reach under Yhe bed in the dark.

GColdtimer · 26/06/2012 06:54

They are all having a right old knees up with the hair bobbles and clips. I have bought about 10 billion of those and can never find any in the morning.

CouthyMow · 26/06/2012 06:59

When it was time for DS1 to lose him dummy, I scoured the house and got rid of almost 30 of them. Every night he would go to bed without a dummy, and every morning he would come downstairs with one in.

I went through every toy box, in every toy, under the bed, and I just couldn't find where he was hiding them.

In the end we had to do a drugs-bust stylee search for them.

We found them hidden inside video cases. While the videos themselves had been pushed behind the bookshelf!!

Shutupanddrive · 26/06/2012 07:03

YANBU I was hunting under the cot just after midnight last night with a small torch for two dummies (one for mouth, one for hand!)

TheOneWithTheHair · 26/06/2012 07:08

When we got rid of ds1's dummy they kept appearing in his mouth several times a day for about a week. I don't know how many we got rid of in the end. :)

Maamekin · 26/06/2012 07:50

You need a dummy clip. Then you can just buy one dummy Grin

redwhiteandblueeyedsusan · 26/06/2012 07:55

i know where the comforters are that my children used.... attached to me... would they use a dummy? would they heck. no, mummys milky boobies or nothing.. I have a few spare hardly used dummies at the back of the cupboard...

BiscuitNibbler · 26/06/2012 07:58

DD stopped using dummies about a year ago, yet when we were replacing the carpets the other week I found another one. Either she's great at hiding them or I am crap at cleaning.

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VegansTasteBetter · 26/06/2012 15:28

I love the stealth dummy hiding!

maamekin dh is convinced that a 4 inch bit of ribbon on a clip would choke 16 month old dd in the night...

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MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 26/06/2012 15:32

I superglue DS's in Wink

5madthings · 26/06/2012 15:34

we have glo in the dark ones for bedtime, dd has 4 of them in bed with her! and i keep spares under my pillow!

she has normal ones for the day, some are on clips and they all live on the bookcase but we inevitably loose them! or rather dp does, i am a bit anal about the as they are expensive and i like to match them to her outfits! but we are currently missing a few. its stresses me out, along with lost hair clips, i am fighting a losing battle tho i feel :(

FuckityFuckFuck · 26/06/2012 15:36

I have them all

DS never had a dummy so he seemed to think that no other child should. He used to "borrow" other childrns dummys and I would find them in my bag/pocket/pram when we got home

I have thrown out about a billion

He has grown out of it now :)

MorrisZapp · 26/06/2012 15:41

I wouldn't mind if DS would use poundshop dummies but its avent or nothing.

What he does with them, I'll never know. We once bought four on a Friday and had none again on the Monday.

My advantage card has millions of points though...