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comforters, do your kids have anything?

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lucykate · 29/09/2005 21:21

dd still has a cuddle cloth, we call it snuggy, she's 3.75

ds uses a dummy, he's 17wks

dh has me, he's 35!

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fastasleep · 29/09/2005 21:59

Blossomhill that's brilliant!! Boxers!!

singyswife · 29/09/2005 21:59

Hi dont mean to sound cheeky but how on earth did DD come to use DH underwear as comfort?

Blossomhill · 29/09/2005 22:01

Fastasleep - you should see them. She has been carting them around for about 4 yrs and they are threadbare .
It used to be my old maternity nightie but she lost that when she was about 2 and then replaced them with the boxers, exactly same material. We have mislaid them countless times and tried to give her various others but only the holey ones will do LOL

Blossomhill · 29/09/2005 22:01

Singyswife - what do you mean?

singyswife · 29/09/2005 22:03

Sorry dont mean anything cheeky. Honestly not implying anything. Just wondered thats all. SOmeone bought my DD a doll and she uses that as confort. Just wondered how the underwear thing came about. Really should have read what I wrote. Sorry did sound a bit nasty. Really sorry to have caused offence.

Blossomhill · 29/09/2005 22:05

Obviously it was very innocent. Just a bit offended tbh

If you really want a full explanation I had a huge pile of clean clothes and she grabbed then and wouldn't let them go.

singyswife · 29/09/2005 22:06

Look am really really sorry to have offended. Feel awful now. Will stop messaging now. Sorry again

Blossomhill · 29/09/2005 22:08

It's fine but it's not very nice to be questionned like that.

Frayedknot · 29/09/2005 22:09

DS has bits of a cut up old nightie, we call them snugglies. I have several pieces so I can wash a couple and have them on hand because he sucks them and they get a bit smelly.

As kids we had muslin squares that we used to call nummies, and my dsis had hers until she was about 13. But only at night

singyswife · 29/09/2005 22:10

HONESTLY I just did not think about how I was putting the question. Am going now anyway. Really apologise again and will put brain into gear if I am ever going to come on here again!!

Blossomhill · 29/09/2005 22:12

Honestly forget it, I have.
I would say though that yes when phrasing a question like that you should be careful as it is upsetting.
Don't stop posting though. We all make mistakes

laurenholly · 29/09/2005 22:15

my daughter will be 3 on 4th oct and she still likes her dummies and still use a bottle but her 9mth old sis hates them

nooka · 29/09/2005 22:49

ds has a shushie, which is an old pram sheet. We did have several, but he claims only one is soft enough for him. He does the label thing too (very important when sucking your thumb). It gets disgusting, and he used to hate it being washed because it would lose it's softness. Now there is so little of it left (he is 6 1/2) that it is always soft. I am kind of hoping it will gradually disappear, as I think that it is the only way he will stop sucking his thumb, but it is a great comfort to him. dd has one too, but only really at bed time and when she is upset, and then only because ds finds it for her. She's not that interested. She goes through stages of different cuddly toys, but is very attatched to her oldest doll.

kath4kids · 29/09/2005 22:56

eldest two dd's had terry nappies, eldest had a dummy second had her thumb.

DD3 has muslim square and dummy

Ds has cuddle ted which i hasten to add we have lost atm, but when he was getting attatche to the label on cuddle teds head we searched high and low for another and couldnt find one so bought others in the hope he would take to one of them. atm having to have one of the others as cuddle ted is lost

kath4kids · 29/09/2005 22:58

best one ever is dh nephew who used to like playing with hair so they gave him a wig. problem was that this wig eventually became a little thread bare and it got lost in a large department store and they had to go and ask if anyone had found wiggy

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 29/09/2005 23:22

Jess has a dummy for sleeps and a cuddly duck - named "duck duck" funnily enough!

Still trying to find the perfect cuddly for the new baby.....

ghosty · 30/09/2005 00:00

DS has a 'muzzy' ... only in bed mind you ... he is nearly 6
DD has a dummy at night and during naps (well, actually she has about 4 in her bed at any one time) she is 20 months.

mawbroon · 30/09/2005 00:01

Kath4kids - I thought my youngest sister was the only person ever to have terry nappies for comfort!! She used to pull the threads out and stick them up her nose though and then there was the time that my dad couldn't get the key in the lock on the bookcase as it was also stuffed full of threads!! She finally gave them up when the last ones disintegrated.

Redtartanlass · 30/09/2005 00:28

Reading through the thread smiling at some of the posts, until I realised.....I'm sitting here a 39 year woman and I'm still 'winding' my hair. Have done it since 16 months old. Except in the 80s when perms made it too 'rough' to wind.

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 30/09/2005 00:30

RTL - im a hair winder too.... not sure when it started but it seems to be a family thing.... most of my aunts do it too!

Kirstie76 · 30/09/2005 19:40

I'm a hair twister too .... have to be really careful in situations where I'm nervous as the fingers stray!!!!!!

used to suck my tongue but can't remember how ....

i wish ds would find something as it might make him self sooth a little easier - then again he is only 10 weeks!

BunnyBoo · 30/09/2005 19:45

My ds who is 3yrs has a small doggy from Toys'r us he calls it "goggy" and has had this from birth, actually saying that he has had the same dog from birth but he is now on his 3rd one, as i try and swap it when it gets grubby and has been washed that many times it's falling apart and not even looking like "goggy" anymore bless him.

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 30/09/2005 19:47

Well managed to get bump a snuggly in Tescos today.... called a "sleepy puppy" - ever so soft and snuggly and probably a little bit bigger than this baby is actually going to be!

I remember Jess being in the hospital crib with her duck duck and it being almost the same size as her!

lindster · 30/09/2005 21:32

I bought a little comfort blanket/rattle thing and my s loves holding it in bed. he hated a dummy so trying to bond him with blanket!

RachD · 30/09/2005 21:51

I am a hair 'twiddler too' - someone start another thread - are we all insecure ?

Ds has 'Mr Dog', from day 1.
Only at bed time though.
I insisted that he was only for night.
When he goes in the washing machine, ds sits and watches the whole cycle !!

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