Your children's comfort items

[Posey]

Following on from Skie's strawberry thread, I just wondered if your children have a comforter, what it is and how long they've had it.
Dd has 2. A blue flannel she's had since birth (6.5 years ago) I used to put a bit of breast milk on it to smell of me for comfort at night. It is now really ragged, and falling to pieces. She rubs it gently over her nose as she's going to sleep, and still has a quck sniff of it if she's at all anxious.
The other is a little raggy doll, "Jakey", manky little thing but as it says in Bagpuss, "...but Emily loved him"

Secondhandrose, you have my every sympathy. I used to have bits of torn up sheet, one bit of which would be sucked, the other sniffed. Went mad when my mum sneakily washed them - they just didn't smell the same. But here's the mortifying bit - I couldn't relinquish them until I was 17!!!!!

DD loves her "coloured night nights" (muslin squares), we have some from when she was first born and newer ones, she will only be comforted with the older smelly ones and will demand , so baby brother should be happy with the new ones when he arrives!

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Dd's comforter is her thumb (at least she can't lose it! ). She does suck it a lot, but then she does calm herself down very quickly (30 second tantrums. great)

And if one more person at the hospital tells her to take it out of her mouth (or physically removes it from her mouth) and tells her/me that it's dirty I will hit someone. Apparently I should give her a dummy. :p to that.

Thanks Popsycal, but they only have the little ones

SP, that is very much a European thing. I was told that dd should have a dummy instead of her thumb too. Did try (briefly) to no avail when I had to bandage it as she'd gnawed it raw, but I thought sod it and got on with life ! She now only does it when she is really tired or in bed. Her teeth are a bit gappy though

My ds (6yrs) is a thumbsucker and loves slippy labels! He has a few favorite night-time items with good labels attached (blanket, pillow etc) but will use any slippy label if tired. In the evening he will often snuggle up to me on the sofa then suck his thumb and shove his hand inside my jumper to find the label, then 'slip' away to his hearts content. He knows which of my jumpers are the best. I'm not too concerned about the label thing (though it does sound a bit odd now I've written it down!) but the thumbsucking concerns me more - teeth and all that. Try to restrict it to bedtime, but not easy as he is attached to it (obviously!). DD (8yrs) had a dummy and eventually lost it - end of problem, after a couple of tearful nights. I've heard of teenagers who still suck their thumb!

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a 14 inch one with chocs too but a bit expensive maybe

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i have just re-read my post..........story of my life!

Marshy - I figure a contented child with a permanently attached means of soothing herself is worth the risk. All of my family were big thumb suckers and none of us have gappy teeth (I have crappy teeth, but they're not gappy).

DD loves labels too, but she loves sticky ones as well as slippy ones.

we have had a paint brush, a red plastic spoon, a doorbell(still in packaging) as well as the usual silky labels, and cot bumpers. The 6 yr still goes to bed with 'silky'. I did see a leaflet in the library called Project Lintus (?) after the kid in Snoopy, where you can send small blankets to kids in hospital/homes/etc in the UK

My dd(age 6) has 3 that she takes to bed with her. Only needs them for bedtime they've never been taken out of the house every day or anything.

First one is a little lion that she got with some bubble bath for a christmas present a few years ago. It goes to bed with her every night and always comes on holiday with us. She can't sleep without him. I worry that we might lose him when we go on holiday so he always goes in the our hand luggage.
Dd also has her blankie that she's had since birth. starting to get a bit holey now but she won't go to bed without it. And she also has a little teddy called Colin, not sure why she called him that, but he isn't "in" all the time sometimes he just has to be on the bed other nights he gets cuddled along with Lion and Blankie.

DD is a thumb sucker and she too loves labels. When she is tired she will walk around with her hands down her clothes clutching the labels.

She also has a small cushion (her pillow) but again I;m sure its the label she likes and she always holds on to the lables on cuddly toys etc.

DSs had dummies, but had no interest in anything else. DD on the other hand is a definite thumbsucker, so I'm trying to get her on the dummy so she doesn't end up as a 32 yr old thumbsucker like her mum

I have two different shaped thumbs, but despite this I CAN'T STOP!!

ds1(4) takes something different to bed each night usually a vehicle!
dd (2y6m)has a blankie. I made it for her when she was 7m, when we discovered she had to go to hospital. I thought it would be a good idea for her to have something she was attached to to comfort her when we couldn't be there. It is small and patchwork (made out of scraps of my little sister's dresses!) with an "M" on it and pink ribbons. This definately did the job when she was in hospital when she was a baby, and again at 18 months when she was in for surgery. However we lost it in November, and finally gave up looking for it. Dd was still asking (and crying) for it, so I made another one, and popped it in her stocking, and on Christmas morning she was so excited the Father Christmas had found her Blankie! The silly bit is I would still love to find the original, sentimental I know, but it has been through a lot with us...so if anyone has come across it let me know!!!!!