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"I wasn&amp;#039;t too concerned with the fact that Emmett was still using a pacifier. We were only giving it to him at naptime and bedtime, and it&amp;#039;s not like he&amp;#039;d spit it out incessantly and make us put it back in. (That SO wouldn&amp;#039;t have gone down at my house!) Still, a few of my Facebook friends have been trying to get their older kids (usually around 2 or 3) to kick the pacifier habit\u2014and they&amp;#039;re all having a terrible time. One mom took her son to Build A Bear where they hid the pacifier in a bear and then had it stitched closed. When she went to wake her son the next morning, the bear was busted open and the pacifier was in his mouth. Another mom tried to make her twins go cold turkey\u2014she claimed the pacifiers had all been lost\u2014but she &amp;quot;found&amp;quot; them after three straight days of hysterics. There are a bunch more horror stories out there, and I decided Emmett&amp;#039;s not going to become another one. So during his naps yesterday, I gave him his owl blanket but not his pacifier. He definitely knew something was wrong and he fussed a little extra, but he eventually fell asleep and slept soundly. (For more than two hours in the afternoon!) And last night he went down for bed pacifier-free. So I think we&amp;#039;re done with the pacifier thing! Am I being overly optimistic? Are there still speed bumps ahead in the road to pacifier freedom? Or is this really it? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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