Suffering Soother
Have I ever told you how much I detest soothers? I find that they are a great tool early on in a child's life, but sometimes they just get out of control. I felt like my son's use of the soother was fast approaching that point so we have now been weening him off the soother. It is seriously taking us longer to ween him off the soother than it did to ween him off bottles and breastfeeding. I am not happy about that. But in case some of you are in similar situations or find yourself in similar situations sometime down the road here is the path we took. My son, bless him, is a very stubborn child, like super stubborn (I am sure he gets it from his dad). He also has a really bad temper and will throw amazing temper tantrums, which I know are from his dad's side because his paternal Grandmother told me his father was just like that. So at a very early age we used the soother to help him soothe himself back to sleep or so that he would stop usi...