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What was your comfort item as a child?
What was your comfort item as a child? How attached were you to it? Do you still have it?
If you have children, what is his or her comfort item?
Re: What was your comfort item as a child?
I had Lamby - a stuff lamb. Its fur was so rubbed off by the time I grew up. I slept with it at night, but didn't carry it around with me. I don't think I would have had a complete meltdown if for some reason it wasn't available at night.
Allison has a favorite blanket, but I think that is just because it was the blanket we gave her at night, not because it was a comfort item.
Amelia is my snuggler. She loves her receiving blankets. I rotate them on a regular basis so she doesn't get hooked to one blanket, in case we ever lost it. She also LOVED her Grover doll. She still likes it, but not as much as even a few months ago. We did buy a back up doll just in case - however the orginial is a hand puppet and the back-one isn't. She likes when I have Grover "talk" to her at night.
A huge white blanket with faux silk edges. I sucked my thumb until I was ancient, and I used to rub the edge of the blanket on my cheek while sucking my thumb. Very soothing.
No idea where that blanket is. My parents probably threw it away while trying to get me to stop sucking my thumb...lol.
I don't have any memories about a "comfort item" as a child. And because of that it has always seemed odd to me when people had blankies or other things. I get it now...but it just wasn't my personal experience.
However, I do have a puzzle of my name that a neighbor made for me when I was born. I have always been insistent of placing it above the door of "my room" or when I shared a room in college it was over my designated area. It will be interesting to see where I put it when I don't have a designated room in my house anymore.
Nothing that I can remember. I was not a pacifier kid or a thumb sucker either.
Ben's "lovey" is his pacifier. He is ALL about it, and can not sleep unless he has one in his mouth, one in each hand, and a few spare ones scattered in the crib in case he wakes up empty handed. We had him weaned to just at naps/bedtime but now that he is cutting more teeth he wants it constantly. I am dreading weaning from it!
When I was really young, like until 6 or so, I used a cloth diaper as my lovey. It was so soft and I liked rubbing my thumbs over the corners.
When I was 8, I got a stuffed rabbit from my aunt for my birthday. I still have it. In my originality, I named it "Soft Bunny." He's rather threadbare now.
DS is attached to Gerber burp cloths ("softies") and his beloved pacifiers ("ca-cas").
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Mine is hilarious- I had a "boo", or that's what I called it anyway. It was a rolled up cloth diaper with a latex bottle nipple taped to it with medical tape. I would take 2 to bed with me every night- one was my sniffer (I would hold it and smell it) and one was my sucker. How odd is that?
Ironically, DS doesn't have any lovies or comfort items. He likes snuggling with a blanket at night and for naps, but it doesn't matter which one.
I think his comfort item is his mama, LOL. Which can be a good and a bad thing.
I had a blanket, named Binkie, and a Puff-a-lump, named Puffy. I still have both. I have Puffy in the girls' toy box.
Addie has a blanket and a teddy bear. The blanket is a soft throw, for kids. It is named "pretty blanket" she has a Tinkerbelle one too, that she loves. And she has a pink teddy bear that Joel got her the Christmas before she was born. The bear's name is Pink Bear... we are really creative over here.
Evie just has a pipey and she LOVES the minky and satin blankets... I am still looking for a teddy for her...
I had a blue blanket that subsequently got torn up when I was in middle school becz it became my puppy's comfort object/toy.
Allison really didn't have anything for a long time. I think it must have been last fall that we started using that blanket on a nighly basis. Before that, during cold spells we had her in a sleep slack. Actually now that I think about it, the sleep sacks were her comfort items. We had to wean her out of them when it started to warm up at the end of winter each year. She liked sucking on the collar them. She still will pull up the front collar of her shirt to her mouth when she is tired or stressed. I can see her as a senior in HS sucking on her shirt during ACTs.
Kitty. It was a pink cat that my Mama had sewn me after I was born. Apparently it was the third word I said right after Mama and Dada.
Oh, and I have no idea where Kitty is. I don't think I was super attached, but I very distinctly remember what it looked like.
Mine was a blanket like D&M's with the faux silk edge. I would fold it up, hide it under my pillow, and at night stick my hand under there to rub the silk. I even took it to college and the dorm! I still have it, but no longer sleep with it. Maybe I'll have to break it out for Baby Rebel.
I think 2 1/2 months is a little too young for a comfort item. He doesn't take a pacifier. He does however love to grab his burp cloth or blanket and pull it towards his face and mouth.
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My brother does this. I don't remember him doing things like that when he was small, but he definitely chews on things like straws and will chew on hoodie strings in particular.