Comfort habits

Does you child have a blankie? Suck their thumb? Have a favourite toy?

What's their absolute essential comfort tool?

Michaela's is a bit weird. She grabs an ear (mine or DH's preferably but her own will do) and holds/kneeds/strokes the lobe with her thumb and forefinger.

She's also a bottle addict and has a favourite teddy bear but her essential comfort tool is an ear.

Ella has Mog, a stuffed cat, and she also sucks her tongue. (makes a sucking action without a dummy or thumb there)
Benjy still has his dummy for sleeps and has a stuffed monkey and a stuffed bunny called Max. He likes the monkey better though.

Nyah bites her nails when shes unsure about a situation.  She's got a big Dora that she sleeps with, and when shes really tired she'll carry Dora around.

Conor was a thumbsucker but not anymore - he has to get braces now

Cooper loves his muzzies. Oh and won't get anywhere without Spiderbug.

Bizzy wrote: tobys is my boobies...   even now when he hasnt had a bf since july... he loves to snuggle up to them or blow raspberries on them or just touch them...

Oh yeah, I stopped BFing almost 12 months ago and Michaela still loves shoving her hand down my top and if we're in the bath or shower and she spots my breasts she tries to give my nipples a tweak while exclaiming "daddys"

.mel wrote: She's got a big Dora that she sleeps with, and when shes really tired she'll carry Dora around.

Michaela does the same with her teddy when she's tired but most of the time it lives in her bedroom.

ETA an S to breast as I have more than one

Edited by MrsMojo

Togs. Any pair of togs. Or my underwear that is silky and stretchy. She describes the fabric as "toggy"

And her thumb.

I was (and still am) a textile girl too. I had a red woollen blanket with pink satin trim and I used to lie in bed and stroke my face with the satin as I drifted off to sleep.

I have a dummy addict here. She will NOT get rid of them (but thats ok, its her thing!)

If she is really upset Miss M likes her pacifier *and* Winnie the Pooh but normally just Pooh will suffice. Of course he is look so dirty and grot now but we can't pry it off her long enough to wash it and we can't find a duplicate!

Kylah has a blanky. Silk on one side and minky on the other :) Has to sleep with it over her face! Scary aye! I go in every night and move it. She wont sleep without in in her bed

LOL Gen we had the same washing issues with Fussy, Fussy is a dime a dozen doll but when we bought a second one Maya told us on no uncertain terms that it is "Fussy Fake". Now she lets us wash her (sometimes) but she is so old and worn that she is permanently grey. She also sucks her tongue like Mel's Ella, we call it the "Fussy tongue".

Mercedes has "Peter", a stuffed Peter Rabbit with a blanket and a mirror on his tummy that we got at the Baby Factory. We were onto it with her tho and as soon as we realised she was attached, we bought a second one, and now she'll take either one no problems, sometimes she lugs them both around.

Sienna used to suck her wrist, even as a newborn, and hated being wrapped because of it. I tried giving her a Jemima Puddleduck (the same as Mercedes Peter) a Care Bear, and a muslin but she wasn't having any of it. Then at Xmas we were in Oz and she took a shine to a bunny rabbit that belonged to my sister, and my sister let her have it, so now it's her "Bubba Bunny". It's pretty manky coz we couldn't find a duplicate and when we finally did she wouldnt take it so poor Bubba Bunny doesn't get washed much.