paci

i have a love hate relationship with luci's pacifiers. from the beginning, i didn't want to use the paci as a crutch for myself and lu and was pretty diligent in only using it when she slept and in her car seat. frankly, i had hoped she didn't want one at at all, and expressed that with my pediatrician in the hospital. i didn't want her to have nipple confusion and i didn't want either of us to become dependent on it. after witnessing lucia with her pacifier, the doc just said "sorry but this kid likes to suck. and i see no reason to worry about nipple confusion with her. she knows the difference." thus began her love of her paci.
she still only gets a paci at bedtime and we bring it on long car rides to appease her sometimes. she falls asleep with the paci in her mouth, but i see on the monitor she often loses it while sleeping. she'll find it herself again (thank god the days of going in to get it for her are gone) and she'll wake up with it in her mouth smiling at me as i enter her room to retrieve her.
i'm not worried about her use of it because i know it's a comfort thing and kids like to suck. it helps with their oral motor skills and i get that. there's nothing wrong with a paci. my mom says one of her biggest mistakes was taking mine away from me at 6-7 months because i immediately found my finger after that. i don't plan on taking the paci away from her at this time however, i am starting to hate them.
now that lu can pull up in her crib her new fun game is to chuck the paci across the room. i hear a clunk on the floor and know i have to go in there, retrieve it, give it back to her, lay her butt down and most likely do the entire thing over again in a few short minutes. i can't put more than one in there because that would be a recipe for disaster because they'd all be chucked out of the crib. i have no answers or remedies for this latest game. i am at her mercy. and she knows it!
hopefully soon the game gets old. i have high doubts it will.
clunk. i just heard another one bite the dust. as i love to say (and it bugs trav to no end) "MY LIFE."
lol