Transitional comfort objects....

[broguemum]

DS is 11 mo and he is forming a very strong attachment to something. Now, I'm all for transitional comfort objects but he has formed an attachment to an EXTREMELY large knitted bedspread i.e. for a double bed. He tries to drag it with him when he crawls around the house and curls up on it when he is tired or wants a cuddle. Now, I know that the obvious answer is to cut it up and create many little ones but it won't work as it is knitted. So here is my question, can you change an attachment like this? Anyone got any tips?

TIA.

No answers i'm afraid but bumping for you.

No advice but lol at your little boy trying to drag a double bedspread!

If you cut it into big squares and quickly machine sewed a border fabric onto it (folded over both sides of the edge and stitched about an inch in from the edge) you might be able to stop it disintegrating.

Can you buy him something similar (in a slightly smaller size) and pin or sew it over one side of the bigger blanket? It might pick up the smell etc and he'd get used to the new texture and he would be able to use that if you took the big blanket away after a couple of weeks?

Sorry, probably crap ideas!

Yes.
My DD formed an attachment to a cuddly toy which she subsequently lost. Thanks to a MNetter in Germany I found one and ordered over the net but took forever to arrive. In meantime, DD formed attachment to another comfort toy.

I'd take big blanket away from him and give him a smaller one (and buy more than one of them too).

Everyone, thanks for all suggestions - much appreciated. Yes, it is an amusing site seeing him trying to drag an EMORMOUS bedspread with him everywhere. He's got attached to it so fast - I'm amazed. Must admit, at the moment I am inclining towards chopping it up and swiftly putting a border on it although the thought of so much sewing fills me with mild panic. Umm - just thought of something else. It's a very loose knit bedspread thing. Is that not adviseable 'cos of getting little fingers trapped? It's a bit like one of these

Well, this doesn't really answer your question, but I was exactly the same as a child. I was absolutely fixated on a large orange tartan blanket. My mother was flummoxed by the impracticality of it (as you say, it isn't very convenient) but bit the bullet and cut it into squares (I've just asked her, and she said she cut a bit off at a time and stitched it to minimise the workload) and I didn't notice...

My dd was very into a beautifully knitted blanket at this stage and at some point between the ages of 18m and 2 she happily switched to another blanket (actually there are 2 very similar that she'll now switch between).

For you I'd be thinking go for something knitted, similar feel if possible but smaller. Preferably get 2!

Should be fine. Oh and say the old one is lost, hiding, in the wash, whatever and "lose" it for a few weeks.

Um. DS is fickle.

He has switched his devotion to his toothbrush!!????

It has been in his hand all day except when I wrestled it away when I dropped him off at the creche this morning. He then saw it in the car when I picked him up at lunchtime; he snatched it up again and has just fallen asleep with it clenched in his fist so I guess I don't have to cut up the bedspread yet.