Introducing a lovey

Jacqui105 · June 2013

When will you do it? Or have you already? Planning on transitioning from bedsharing back to the crib next weekend. She likes to fall asleep with my hand on the side of her face. Thinking it would be a little easier transition if she had a lovey to snuggle. I just can't remember if a small lovey is safe anytime before a year old or not?

jaimevogt · June 2013

No answers, just a bit baffled by the lovey thing. I'm still at the stage, where how do you introduce one...how do you even know LO will like it?

To me it seemed like a lovey would need to be selected by the LO over time, and not by my introducing it.

IDK LO hasn't trended toward likeing anything,

Jacqui105 · June 2013

jaimevogt:
No answers, just a bit baffled by the lovey thing. I'm still at the stage, where how do you introduce one...how do you even know LO will like it?
To me it seemed like a lovey would need to be selected by the LO over time, and not by my introducing it.
IDK LO hasn't trended toward likeing anything,

i would just select one for her that I felt was safe and put it in bed with her each night.

ExcitedAunt2b · June 2013

Morgan has a blanket that she loves to sleep with. It's a receiving blanket and I think she likes it because when I rock her to sleep it's against me so it has my scent on it. That's the only thing she sleeps with.

minervacullen · June 2013

I purposely bought a blanket while pregnant that is soft, cuddly, and breathable. She loves it and has to have it to fall asleep and cuddle with in bed. She has a stuffed doll from my mom that she loves too.

kerbear135 · June 2013

LOL....my DD's lovey is probably gonna be a spit rag....I don't know what it is about those things, but she's a little obsessed with them (not any one in particular- she loves any one she can get her hands on)....she loves to cover her face with them when sleepy, to eat them, use them to play hide-and-seek, etc...crazy kid! We're not going to let her sleep with it for now though, because like I said, she likes to put it over it face.

feistybear · June 2013

So Elli has a woobie (blanket) that she loves, its small, light and knit. A friend made it for her. We also bought one of those little stuffed animals that their tummy lights up and she LOVES it! We put it to bed with her in her crib and she falls asleep while holding on to his foot! It's really cute.

SingleMom31 · June 2013

minervacullen:
I purposely bought a blanket while pregnant that is soft, cuddly, and breathable. She loves it and has to have it to fall asleep and cuddle with in bed. She has a stuffed doll from my mom that she loves too.

LO loves to lay in our bed with our down comforter, so I suspect that she'd like a blanket too. What kind did you get that was breathable enough?

mydixiewrecked · June 2013

kerbear135:
LOL....my DD's lovey is probably gonna be a spit rag....I don't know what it is about those things, but she's a little obsessed with them (not any one in particular- she loves any one she can get her hands on)....she loves to cover her face with them when sleepy, to eat them, use them to play hide-and-seek, etc...crazy kid! We're not going to let her sleep with it for now though, because like I said, she likes to put it over it face.

LOL! Connor does the same thing! In the mornings though he likes to grab,hold,chew and snuggle the onesie he wore to bed as soon as I get him dressed. My kid is weird. Or maybe he is admiring the fresh scent of Gain,who knows.

kjsmith9 · June 2013

I was looking at Angel Dear Blankies... but honestly, I'm probably going to skip it. She's STTN for the most part now, and starts with a paci in her mouth. If she's wide awake when I lay her down for naps, and seems like she might fuss, I put this yellow stuffed giraffe next to her and she rubs its face and falls asleep.

I'm not pushing the lovey because I want to avoid the toddler-age horror of having forgot or lost said object. If she chooses something, I can't really help that... but I'm not forcing anything on her. Right now I think her loveys are my boobs anyways lol

minervacullen · June 2013

SingleMom31:
minervacullen:
I purposely bought a blanket while pregnant that is soft, cuddly, and breathable. She loves it and has to have it to fall asleep and cuddle with in bed. She has a stuffed doll from my mom that she loves too.

LO loves to lay in our bed with our down comforter, so I suspect that she'd like a blanket too. What kind did you get that was breathable enough?

I got it at target. It's kind of knit. I put it to my face, pressed it tight and tried to breath, if breathing was easy, not at all difficult, I got it.

rjeller32 · June 2013

Jacqui105:
jaimevogt:
No answers, just a bit baffled by the lovey thing. I'm still at the stage, where how do you introduce one...how do you even know LO will like it?
To me it seemed like a lovey would need to be selected by the LO over time, and not by my introducing it.
IDK LO hasn't trended toward likeing anything,

i would just select one for her that I felt was safe and put it in bed with her each night.

That was not how it worked in our house. One day DD1 just decided she wanted to sleep with a bear named Broccoli she had gotten at her first Christmas when she was like 2 months old, and kept with it. I think she started that at like a year? I like to avoid adding stuff into my kids bed. DD2 doesn't need anything in her crib, until she decides she will literally explode if it's (whatever it will be) not with her.

aelhunt · June 2013

I give her one of a few small blankets-a tag one or the ladybug head and blanket. I only do this for naps to get her u see to napping in her crib now that we are at home full time. I take it away as soon as she is asleep if I can or make sure it is away from her face.

Litgirl77 · June 2013

feistybear:
So Elli has a woobie (blanket) that she loves, its small, light and knit. A friend made it for her. We also bought one of those little stuffed animals that their tummy lights up and she LOVES it! We put it to bed with her in her crib and she falls asleep while holding on to his foot! It's really cute.

I love that someone else calls blankets, woobies. Woobie is Sam's nickname because for some reason, I decided that he was so snuggly and cute as a newborn, he was my woobie. Poor kid!

We have one of the small taggies blankets and he loves to sleep with it. I only let him for naps right now. Trying to decide when he can sleep overnight with it. At night I do let him have his Wubba Nub (the little animals with the pacifier attached). It seems safer to me, but who knows.

kescalera · June 2013

We tried to get Killian attached to a blanket I bought him or one that one of the family made him but he randomly picked a stuffed cow my parents bought me to commemorate a cross country road trip we all did rift after I graduated college. My mom got a kick out of seeing him light up snuggle it when he went to bed at night.

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