Comfort blankies?

Has anyone used comfort blankies for their baby instead of a dummy or other comforter? I think they are called Taggies or Snugzees. I need to wean Ava off her dummy. She can pull her dummy out of her mouth but she cant put the damn thing back in and i am SO sick of having to put it back in when it falls out!!!

Cooper has muslin that he takes to bed with him... for awhile he knew that they were associated with bed time. Now unfortunately if I have any left around he wanders around them on his head or around his neck like a scarf!

I will say that they definitely work for him at bedtime, its the first thing he goes for when put into his cot.

We ditched the dummy at about 4 months as DS could take it out but not put it back in. At the same time I dumped all the cuddlies/snugglys we got given as gifts iin there and he became attached to one - His Rabbie.

I love it and it makes it easy when putting him t bed elsewhere etc. My one recommendation is to make sureits not too big and its easy to chuck in your handbag.

E has 4 (all the same ) taggies....they are muslin ...I feel for you about the dummy...we havent been able to get rid of it and i was up a lot till 7/8 months putting it back in:( so atm he has one taggie and his dummy

My son got very attached to his cot duvet with a teddy on it. So attached that we still can't get it away from him and he is 4. He doesn't take it out of the house but sleeps with it and talks to it. I would recommend not getting a blankie as they are very hard to get rid of and look terrible the older they get.

DS has a toy cat that has a bell in its head and jingles when you shake it....He is very attached and will not go to bed with out it. On the occasion that he does and he wakes in the night, well he will not go back to sleep and will wake the house till it is found...I wish I had bought more at the time as you can no longer get them and his is looking quite manky. Basically get more than one so that when you wash it there is another to take its place.

We just put cat in his bed every nap time and it just happened. It was the only toy in his bed also.

My boy Dominic has a teddy who he calls Bear and a dummy for bedtime. It is great for bedtime, we still have some issues with getting up to give him his dummy even tho he can do it himself now he is 21 months old, sometimes he is just too sleepy to find it. I think his Bear is more important to him though, and it is great for them to have something other than you or Daddy to comfort themselves with. My only advice would be to buy a couple of whatever you are going to put in the bed with her as they can get very smelly and dirty. We only have the one bear and can't find another, it caused chaos when Dom had diahorea and Bear had to go in the wash.

Edited by Saffron

I gave Ella a taggie when she was around 6 months but she never took to it....instead at around 8 months she started taking her merino nightie that she wore as a newborn everywhere with her and now won't go to sleep without it. Luckily she also has a pair of merino PJs that she is just as happy to cuddle if her nightie is in the wash.

She also wears it around the house like a scarf...

Edited by Mum2Ella

Eeek I had hoped not to give Ashlyn a dummy or a blankie and make sure to rotate blankets so she doesn't get used to any. But it sounds like they can one day just fall in love with something and become very attached