Liveblogging a Fuller Milestone

Tonight Fuller is going to sleep without his pacifier.

I'm not really liveblogging it, but I am blogging right now to drown out his cries and physically keep myself from going into his room and giving into his demands.

He still has his blanket and pooh bear to keep him company, so I hope he finds comfort in that soon.

Fuller got his first pacifier on his second night in the hospital. The nurse in the nursery gave it to him, not me. I never had a problem with it, but it was surprising that the hospital would give one to an infant who was breastfeeding.

When we were home I got very frustrated that Fuller seemed to be nursing non-stop. Once I figured out that he was just wanting to suck, not really to eat, I implemented a specific breastfeeding routine. It started out with feeding him until he lost interest in the eating part, and then popping in the paci to supplement the sucking instinct he wanted to fulfill.

I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but eventually Fuller just used the paci for napping and sleeping. He even willingly handed the pacifier over when he was ready to get out of the crib.

And now, we have decided that it is time and the pacifier must be phased out. (Maybe we will still use it for quiet in certain places.) Right now, Fuller is quiet, so maybe he fell asleep. I wonder if he will sleep through the night.

My baby is growing up. I hope he doesn't hate us in the morning.

And besides, we didn't leave him entirely without. We let him have the mouthgaurd, if he really needs something in his mouth.