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Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Doug

Doug — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:26:07 +0000

Found your blog not long ago Jody. Congrats on moving back to SWPA. It’s always nice seeing individuals from West Greene have good things happen to them. I’m sure your mom and dad are excited about having you close once again.

Hope the move goes well. Class of 92.

Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Dottie

Dottie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:15:38 +0000

I totally commend you for your tough decision. You are really lucky to have a home town or something near it to go back to. We’ll always have IM!

Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:23:28 +0000

Congratulations on the decision, which is the hardest part for sure. I don’t think anyone, particularly ourselves, can imagine how much priorities shift when babies come along. I hope you keep blogging!

Comment on Sleep Training Update: Night Weaning! by Jody

Jody — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:54:12 +0000

Not once we got the Wubbanub! It’s really easy to grab onto and they catch on putting it in the mouth quickly. Of course, we also had three of them in her crib at once, so that helps!

Comment on Sleep Training Update: Night Weaning! by Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:34:35 +0000

I am just worried about it derailing the sleep training if we have to go back in to pop it in his mouth a million times a night, he will need to figure out how to do it himself (which he is not nearly there yet) or learn to sleep without it. Did you have a “re-binking” problem with either of your girls?

Comment on Sleep Training Update: Night Weaning! by Jody

Jody — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:21:10 +0000

The Wubbanub worked WONDERS. We also have one for our younger daughter, and we just lay her on her belly, lay the Wubbanub on the crib, and pop it in her mouth.

We just weaned Eliza off of the paci a few weeks ago, and it went better than we expected–after crying, “IT BROKE!” when she saw that we’d cut the paci off of the bear, she got over it quickly and now just carries around her two paci-less monkeys and bear as her lovies. We call them “the boys.” Or, in private, the castrati.

Comment on Sleep Training Update: Night Weaning! by Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:14:39 +0000

I know this was posted a long time ago, but if you are still keeping up with these posts– did you find that the paci interfered with sleep training at all? Did the little monkey wubbanub thing help her be able to put it in herself? My son is about 5.5 months, we, like you, did ass backwards… bed time first, worked great, now night weaning, but using Ferber’s actual approach (pushing feedings up with check ins) rather than backwards. Anyways, Ferber says ditch the paci, but I am scared and want to keep it… how’d it work for you?

Thanks!

Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Jody

Jody — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:04:03 +0000

Once my job gave the big go-ahead, it accelerated the timeline!

Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Andy

Andy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:54:56 +0000

Didn’t know this would come so quickly. Better get David’s help to bottle up all that wine so you can take it with you so you can be the cool kids who made wine in CA when you were here. What’s the move date?

Comment on It’s Time to Leave the Capsule (If You Dare) by Heather Hawkins (@smurfcore)

Heather Hawkins (@smurfcore) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:57:57 +0000

Wow, exciting news– Best of luck on your journey and enjoy the closed doors, greenspace and poop-free living!