So many issues post-binky? Is this normal?

We finally took Marron's binky away on Sunday night. She actually did pretty well. She took almost 2 hours to go to sleep, was up and down several times and whined alot for the binky, but we didn't have the horrific screaming crying that many people have had. She continued to ask for it the next afternoon and night at sleeptime. She didn't ask me for it at all at naptime yesterday or today or at night last night.

What we do have is sleep issues and an eating frenzy. She is not going to sleep until 10-10:30 at night. She is just up and down several times. This includes naptime. She just will NOT go to sleep. She used to nap for about 3 hours every day and since we took it away, she is only napping for about 1-1.5 hours. Today she was in bed for 1.5 hours and never slept. She is also getting up before 7am every day now, whereas she used to get up between 8&9. I wouln't even mind the early rising so much if she was still napping well during the day, but she's not.

Then we have the eating frenzy. She is just eating & snacking all day long! Today she had a big bowl of fruit for breakfast, then asked for an apple, then another one, then a bowl of cereal, then a bagel with jelly, then had 2 cookies, then a Nutrigrain bar and then another one. Now she won't be hungry for dinner, but will be asking for food before bed. I hate the idea of putting her to bed hungry so I usually give in and give her food before bed if I know she didn't eat dinner well.

Did anybody else experience these issues when they took away the binky? Should I be doing something to try to solve the problems, or should I just let it ride for a bit and let her try to adjust?

Re: So many issues post-binky? Is this normal?

When we took the paci away at 2, DD cried and cried every night for almost a month. It was horrible...but every night she cried less and less. She cried for naps too, which temporarily shortened them. Then it was fine.

As for the food, no we didn't experience that. Could she be growing?

Re: So many issues post-binky? Is this normal?

Not sure if she is growing. She just had a big growth spurt. She finally passed out around 8pm since she didn't have a nap today at all.

Re: So many issues post-binky? Is this normal?

With my DD we experienced major crying at naptime (first day she cried for 45 minutes straight & never fell asleep, then the next day it was 30 minutes) & at nighttime, standing & crying....it broke my heart. YET by the 4th day things got a bit better & by a week the paci seemed to be forgotten.

Now it's about a month later & she found one behind her toybox and actually handed it to me. I was shocked.

Not sure about the eating frenzy.....

hope things get better, hang in there!

Re: So many issues post-binky? Is this normal?

When we took the paci away, my son stopped napping. Would try for like 5 minute and give up. He had started loosing his naps around 2.5, but then started waking up early and brought them back but once the paci was gone..he wouldn't try.

At night, a few weeks of crying but day by day it got better. He was a kid who deals with nightmares on and off and weeks after we did have them for a bit.

He definitely wasn't himself for a couple months after the whole thing. It was a very, very hard time for all of us. Months after he would still try to turn his trains using a "magic" wand into pacis (he gave his pacis to the easter bunny who we told him magically turned them into choo choo trains for him).

No change with food that I recall.

But it is about a year later now and he has this one paci with no nipple (it is old and gross and he holds it to fall asleep, rubs on his face we let him keep when he gave his real pacis to the Easter Bunny last year. He actually saw a baby picture where he had it in his mouth and got upset and asked why it was in his mouth that it doesn't go in the mouth). Anyway, the last few weeks he has been upset at night saying someone may come and take it when he fall asleep and doesn't want to fall asleep. He actually hides it in his piles of stuffed animals when he doesn't use it. So obviously he's still effected by this whole thing.

Message edited 2/5/2009 7:22:34 AM.