Does/did your child have a special attachment?

[SCHBR'smom]

My oldest DD had a special purple elephant named Ellie. She would suck on her fingers and rub Ellie's ribbon with her other fingers. She even slept withit until a year or two ago when it got replaced with a stuffed weiner dog.

DD1 (she'll be 2 next month) has a towel, she calls it luvie, that she can't live without. The center is a pink, soft, bumpy material, the edges and back are satin polka dot. She even has a favorite corner, it has a brown polka dot. She takes it everywhere, rubs her eye with it, bites it, rubs her toes with it, touches you with it, always holds it while she sucks her thumb. It's her best friend. When she loses it, the everyone has to spread out and search. I even resort to bribeing the first one who can find it. She once lost it for 2 days and was miserable. We found some other blankets that are similar and her Nanny made her one like it but different colors. She carries all of them, but her luvie is still the best and irreplaceable.

 

[ckay87]

Oh yes, both of my boys still use their blankies every night. But don't tell them I told you...they are 13 and 16!

 

[Enchanted_Mama]

yes, both of my girls love their taggies

 

[Kit'smommy]

DS is pretty fair with his toys. He rotates through all of them and has never had one major lovey. Currently he has a stuffed frog interest and they all have to sleep with him.

When I was a young child, I had Dressy Bessy. Dressy went everywhere with me and she had to be carried facing outward in my right arm and held by one arm. My dad would buy two or three at a time and my mom would change out a worn or dirty on when I was asleep. She always managed to convince me that she had just washed her when I was asleep. I am nearly 36 and she has a drawer in her dresser with about 15 worn out little dolls all with partially torn off left arms. I have a nice clean model that sits by my bed. As a joke, I sometimes tuck it in DH's suitcase when he travels.

 

[ORMom2Four]

My oldest (17) had the "Barney pillow". It was a Barney (the purple dinosaur) pillowcase that I filled to make a pillow when she was only 2. She used it until it got so thin that the stuffing was nearly coming out, she was maybe 8 or 9?

She still keeps it in her room in the bottom of a dresser drawer.

She's the only one of my 4 kiddo's who had a special attachment to a pillow/blanket.

 

[mamacatnv]

DD has a red and white checkered blanket that went everywhere with her until this year, she is almost 11. It now stays on her bed most of the time. If I see her with it I know something is up. It was handmade and thankfully the sturdiest blanket around. It has 1 boo boo that I had to repair and other than that it survived 10 years and still looks amazing.
If her blankie needed washing she would be the one to put it in the washer and then she would sit in the laundry room until it was done. We went camping once without it and DH drove an hour home to get it.

DH has a cousin in his 50's who has a pillow.......

 

[DMickey28]

Kit'sMommy - That's so sweet!! I had a blue silk blanket that my mom bought me when I was a newborn. I still have it. When my dad would travel I would cut off a little piece and put it in his suitcase.

My DS, 2 in April, has two blankets that he favors when he sleeps. One is an identical match to my baby blanket and the other is a recent addition. It's a fleece Thomas the Train blanket I got at Walmart because I didn't want him getting cold at night but was scared of getting anything heavier! He likes both and pulls both out of his crib sometimes. Other than covering himself with them when he goes to bed he doesn't have any other attachment to them.

 

[SCHBR'smom]

I forgot, my nephew is attached to a blue, stuffed moose. My SiL has gotten him 2 extra so he always has a spare. But, he still prefers the original.

 

[cruiserkaren]

My dd5 has a small pillow that her great grandmother made for my dh when he was born (32 years ago). It had a couple pillowcases with it but due to the age of them they wore out quickly. Both my mom and MIL made replacements over the years. She rubs the pillowcase between her thumb and finger when going to sleep. Not so much anymore but we did NOT leave the house before the age of 3 without it.

My dd1 has a thin blanket with little brown bunnies on it. My aunt bought it at a rummage sale before she was born. Who knew it'd become so special? I have no idea why it's that one but it is.

I'm a little sad (and a bit relieved!) that my dd5 will now stay the night at a grandparents house without her pillow.

 

[mlynn]

My DD6 has a stuffed rabbit from Build a bear Mrs Giggles (she has a giggle in her we are on a 3 replacement of it) that she doesn't go to bed with out it.

My DD4 has a little Darth Vader. She sleeps with every night. While in Disney last year she got a (as she calls them)baby storm trooper so Darth has a friend.

 

[jen0610]

Oh yes, both of my boys still use their blankies every night. But don't tell them I told you...they are 13 and 16!

My 14 year old DS is right there with them. He wore out the one he had as a baby and the current one that he has is getting pretty ragged around the edges.

There isn't much that I can say. As a 41 year old, I have a blanket that if I don't have it to wrap up in, I don't sleep very well myself. Between the blanket and fan, if both went bye-bye, I would never get any sleep.

 

[JanaNs]

When I was little I had a blue blanket with a satin edge and I used to suck my thumb and wrap the satin around my finger and stroke my cheek at the same time. My dad tells me that he used to have to iron it every night before bed because I couldn't have one tiny wrinkle in it.

My oldest daughter had a blanket with a bunny at the top that she called Sissy and my other daughter had a plaid bunny with a big "R" on the front (her first initial) that she called "Bubby". They both still have them but they are stored because they are both in tatters!

 

[minkydog]

DD16 had a stuffed manatee that she loved like a baby. When she was about 6yo liked to make little clothes for it out of scraps of material.She slept with it and took it everywhere. Unfortunately, she lost it at Ft. Pickens when we camped there. I bet she cried about it for 2 years. Here we are 10 years later and she asked me yesterday could we go camping again at Ft. Pickens. I know in my heart she's hoping to find that manatee.

My oldest DS22 had a weird lovey when he was about 2yo--a red plastic ball. He took it everywhere, bathed it in the bathtub and slept with it. One day the dog bit the ball and the ball burst into about 5 scraps. No worries, though. DS picked up the largest scrap about the size of a skullcap and started wearing it! I had people stop me all the time and say, "Uh, did you know he has a piece of BALL on his head?"

 

[shannonh]

My DS 7, has a winnie the pooh cover that he's had forever and, for some reason when he was small he really liked a crocheted yarn sweater that I had, well, he took it. He still has it. It's so funny, cuz he used to yell for pooh and sweater. Now, they sit on his bed beside him. LOL

DD4, has about 6 pink baby covers. One side is silky, the other is soft. I told her I should sew them together so she can use it as one big cover.

 

[joyjoy]

I got a baby blanket (soft and fuzzy, satin binding, white) for a baby shower gift and put it in the crib with my baby as soon as she was born.

She still sleeps with it. She is 23 years old.

It's totally disgusting looking, but hey. It's

 

[lemondog]

My 5yo has a pink blanket named Monkey. Monkey is the love of her life and must go everywhere with us. At preschool she leaves him in her backpack until naptime, and she'll do the same in kindergarten. Otherwise, he goes everywhere with us. And yes, Monkey is a boy, she is very adamant about this.

-When she was potty training she would lay Monkey over the potty when she was done so HE could go potty too!
-When she was a toddler, every time she got a band aid, Monkey had to get a band aid
-Monkey has been on every ride at WDW. His favorite is Tower of Terror, where he actually got to fly up suspended in the air, which my DD thought was the coolest thing ever.
-DD cannot go to sleep unless she is sucking on Monkey. Mind you, she doesn't actually suck on him, she puts him up to her mouth and she makes a sucking motion but doesn't actually put him in her mouth.

This is a special blanket my mom made for her when she was 18 months old. She has made others "just in case" but my DD will have nothing to do with them. God help us if we ever lose him!

 

[Fintastic]

Our five-year-old DD is very attached to two "blankies" that must sleep with her every night. Neither of them are very big. The first one she received as a gift for her first birthday. It's white with a pink poodle head on one corner. The other is a pink receiving blanket with satin on one side and a warm fuzz on the other. She's had that one since she was two or so. If we can't find them at night she gets so upset until we do.

 

[C.Ann]

DGD (10) has a bear - with a special name - that she's had since birth.. A number of years ago, she was involved in a car accident with her other grandmother (she was around 2 or 3 I think) and upon arriving at the hospital by ambulance, she refused to have x-rays done until they x-rayed "X - Bear" first.. The hospital did in fact x-ray the bear and allow her to bring the x-ray home..

Recently she "thought" she might be ready to part ways with "X-Bear" - until she read "The Velveteen Rabbit".. That changed her mind lickety split and she still sleeps with "X-Bear", drags it up here to the lake with her, etc..

 

[MoniqueU]

My youngest dd does. First it was the baby quilt from her baby bedding set. it got lost on vacation in AZ and that didn't go over well. We looked over the whole place and couldn't find it. I may try ebay. Now it is curretnly the big sized beanie baby teddy bear with hearts on it. She loves that thing. She is 11 years old and IMHO a little old to be attached to something but she is also the baby of the family s I let it go.

 

[mickeyboat]

DD9 has a green beanie buddy bunny named "Bunny" or "Bun" for short. He was a gift from her godmother before she was born and was in the room when she entered this world.

He watched over her in the ICN for 2 weeks, and even got his own hospital id band. He went with her when she had stitches, and got his own bandaid.

He comforts her when she is scared of noises in the night. He comforts her when she is upset.

He has been pooped on, puked on and drooled on. He has been washed, dried (usually in a pillow case) and has a small hole where the a dryer got too close.

He has been on an airplane, on a ship and has spent many hours in the car. He has slept in her crib, in her bed, in hotels, at Grandma's house and at friends' houses.

You can barely see his eyes anymore and his whiskers have been all loved off. His fur is all matted down.

We bought another one just in case when DD was about 4. His name is Mall Bunny. She loves him too, but it's not the same.

She also has a blanket - thin and worn - called "****ie." (probably starred out). When she named the blanket, all of her favorite things sounded alike. Horses were hoobies, her Grammie was Googie and her blanket was a ****ie. We take great care to call it a blanket when we're away from the house.

DD8 has certain things she sleeps with, but she is not attached to them.