Tuesday, 04 May 2010

  • NO MORE BINKY!




    It's Binky Fairy time in our house!  You know, when the Binky Fairy comes to gather all the binkies and give them to the new babies.

    This weekend the binkies will disappear.  Ava was never very attached to her binky - but she will pop it in her mouth when she sees one.  If I try to take it from her, she grabs it back.  She is not dependent on it, though.  She can fall asleep without it just fine.  But since she has an oral motor, input-seeking issue with her mouth - she loves her binky.  We have about 20 in the house!

    My mom was big on the binky. Whenever she watches Ava, she sticks a binky in her mouth.  I didn't really care, I never gave her one.  My husband gives it to her when he puts her to sleep.  But the order has been made by the therapists, NO MORE BINKY FOR AVA.  Binky verboten.  No Binky Zone.


    Speech therapists hate binkies.  Binkies encourage tongue thrusting which is counter-productive to speech and oral motor therapy.  Ava has low tone in her tongue and mouth and the binky does not help.  If she was a typical child, I'd let her have the binky as long as she wanted to.  But she has a lot of issues, apraxia, oral motor -- binky is not helping matters.

    So as of Sunday at 11:59am, there will be no more binkies in our house.  (I am toying with the idea of keeping it in her bed, but I should just get rid of them cold turkey, right?)  And did Mommy mention that she needs to refill her Klonipin prescription before the Binky Purge begins?

    Binky-less in North Jersey here we come!

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