Really just a curiousity... Teresa has a build a bear bunny she got when she was 4 days old (we went to the mall just to get it, her auntie bought it for her)... I didn't give her bunny for a while, but took pictures of her beside bunny to measure her growth... LOL.

Now bunny sleeps with her every night... she loves bunny, wakes up in the middle of the night to give bunny kisses. Bunny's face is now flat... LOL.

Sometimes bunny comes with us on trips sometimes bunny doesn't. She didn't come to my inlaws yesterday and T had a meltdown because her friend wasn't there with her. She didn't want any other stuffed animal just bunny... and it took a good bit to get her calmed down.

I think we are going to take a trip to build a bear to make a secondary bunny for the inlaws house.

So what is your child attached to?

I was attached and still might be a little (lol) to a stuffed bagel bear. It was made by Sara Lee the baker and it literally has a big round stomach that looks like a bagel and little stubby legs ans arms. It also has two ribbons around its neck. My grandmother got it for me when I was born, and I've had it in my bed ever since. When I was a toddler, Honey the bear came everywhere with me. There was no leaving it behind. To this day, my mother's close friend jokes that she's going to have to sew a wedding gown and make a wreath for my stuffed bear to walk down the aisle with me when I get married. That's how attached I was.

We had a false alarm once when we though Honey got lost. My grandmother quicy ordered to more as backup. Literally, the woman had them overnight two more stuffed bears. I didn't take too well to the new one cause it didn't look anything like mine (yeah, it was clean!! Lol), but fortunately, my old one resurfaced shortly thereafter. So, the replacement got named "fresh Honey" and got put on a shelf or in a drawer somewhere.

About four years ago, my grandmother suddenly got very ill and was in the hospital for nearly 5 months. During which time, my mother and uncle sold my grandmother's house (as she had been talking about doing prior to the illness) and our mad hunt began for the 3rd Honey bear! It took a few minutes, but I did find it! That was practically the only thing I wanted out of that house, lol. My first two children will be given theirs at birth as I was. If I have any more than two, I think ebay may have some... 23 years later.

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I think we are going to take a trip to build a bear to make a secondary bunny for the inlaws house.

So what is your child attached to?

Be careful of that! Some kids can tell the difference between a favorite Lovey and an imposter!

My has a horse blanket....his name is tony pony and he goes everyone with her. I have two of them and I rotate them out once in awhile. She knows the other exists and seems to be ok with that fact.

I had a Raggedy Ann doll. I was never obsessed with it coming with me (it was rather large), but always slept with it and I still have it. Let me tell you that my mom actually did buy me another one because mine was getting so filthy dirty...but it wasn't my real one. The fake doll always sat on a shelf. Couldn't fool me or even persuade me to use another one.

My first two never became attached to anything.. which I found odd. But my littlest is very much making up for that. She has a little pink doll that rattles, loves that thing takes it with her everywhere. We actually lost it about a week ago for two days and she was so mad... and barely slept at all. When she found it- you wouldn't beleive the party that little 13 month old had.

DD has a muslin blankie. Well, actually 2, they came in a pair. I rotate them. The chews and sucks on it when she sleeps. They get kind of gross, but luckily wash well. She sleeps with stuffed animals too, but those change up. She always has an Alice in Wonderland doll, and the other night also required Minnie, Hello Kitty, Okami, and Raggedy Ann before she would lie down.

My first two never became attached to anything.. which I found odd.

James never did either. He's never been an "attachment" kind of kid - he never got hooked on a bottle, he never got hooked on a pacifier (he actually outright refused them...), and never had any kind of security thing. And it wasn't for actual lack of trying - my gramma bought him a blanket, with the full intention that it'd become his security blanket. Nah, he was good, he didn't need it. He's just never been that sort of kid.

Elijah's only real attachment is Eeyore. He's had Eeyore since birth and still cuddles him in bed at night. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. When he lost Eeyore at the studio where I was teaching a few years ago, we made it a rule that Eeyore is a bed toy and only goes out of the house if Elijah will be sleeping in a different bed so that we never lose him again. Elijah was pretty happy about that rule because being without Eeyore for a few hours was preferable to being without Eeyore forever.

Helen

blankets !! all of my kids have them an they go everywhere with them my mother inlaw used to say to me "they are only coming for a night" as i used to pack a suit case full of them just incase lol xxx

My daughter has a blanket that was bought for her before she was born by my grandma. My grandma just knew she would love it and she was right. Out of all the blankets, and she had lots, that was the one she became attached to. She still sleeps with it and she is 8. It means even more to her now that Grandma is dead.

FYI- I still sleep with my baby blanket, which was originally my Mom's baby blanket which she got from her grandma. It is torn apart, holey, stained, thin, and well used but anyone who comes to this house, even complete strangers, fight over that darn blanket. Everyone thinks it has magically qualities

I gave in and went to Build A Bear and got her a back up bunny... Back Up lives at my inlaws house... and well she loves it almost as much.

I usually let her pick out a "friend" to bring with her downstairs or when we go out... Bunny is her best friend but funny enough she seems to prefer to leave bunny at home.