I guess i'm the dummy

It's crazy that when you are pregnant or before you even have kids we vow and are adamant to not do certain things, well that was me with the dummy. Every time I saw dummies I thought "nop not my baby" and tbh I went 6 months without one, my mum tried to give Milena one before and she would spit it out and act as if it made her sick. However the other day something amazing happened lol, she took it! And now she thinks she is a pro!! And it's as if most of my problems disappeared! My strict ways were making my life so much more difficult. Day one and Milena stopped comfort feeding on me at night, I literally gave her the dummy and she sucked away, and only woke up twice!! Wait can I just emphasis how good it is for my little daughter to wake up twice, yes twice, one last time TWICE!!! This has never happened in the last 6 months, my boobs were sore and full to the brim, you know when they are lumpy and you can't even sleep because of the pain, but I did not care, I was so shocked at what was happening and it's crazy because I was use to waking up every 2 hours and having her suck on me all night, so I was up most of the night, checking on her and thinking "shit, is this what I have been missing out on!!" So the first night I did not sleep much better than usual. Secondly before in order to get Milena to sleep at first it was just on boob, I slowly weaned her off of that and then would have to rock her to sleep which would involve like 5-10 mins of tears and angry stretching until she would finally find her sleep. But now all I have to do, is give her her dummy, put a blanket over her and that is it. With her first nap of the day I put on Baby Einstein and I sat on the sofa carrying her, and after a few minutes with no sort of fight she was asleep. I met my friend for tea and she literally fell asleep after 30 seconds!! Then at her nans house, her nan put her to sleep! So it's not just me that can put her to sleep anymore.

Basically what I have been wanting to say is we sometimes make our lives harder for ourselves and yes dummies may not be cute and they may be hard to get rid of, but I prefer a few months of peace and hopefully in the near future a full nights sleep to a few days and nights of tears when I wean her off her dummy!!

For now I'm team dummy and I couldn't possibly regret my decisions, dummy I loveeee you xoxox