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does anyone else have a child that has a weird comforter?

my daughter has lots of them either a book/books to cuddle, or a handful of picture bingo tiles or - and this is really weird - she likes to sleep with her bottom on her toy pizza, you know the kind where the pieces are held together with velcro. should i be worried or are there other strange little people out there?!

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1. don't be worried, it's nothing. when my twins were little, Mike used to sleep with a spatula. he wouldn't sleep without it. now that he's 8, he denies it, but it's all fine, your daughter is normal!!!
2. Aww bless her lol. My daughter is 8. She sleeps with a raggy, frayed black sarong that is just a huge knot of tangles. I don't worry about it. She's happy..xx
3. my son would'nt go to sleep unless he had a nylon label you get in the back of clothes in his hand.
4. My 6 year old daughter slept with a WALL SHELF (yes, you read that right, the kind that holds knick knacks and has little pegs to hang clothing on) under her pillow for several months. I couldn't exactly sneak it out of there, I'm sure she would have noticed!
5. My oldest will be three next month. She will not fall asleep unless she has my old bedsheet against her cheek. This thing is like 10 years old, ripped, holely and faded. She can't just hold on to it either. If you pull it off of her face, she wakes up and won't fall back asleep until it's touching her cheek. Just recently, she has started sleeping with......my keychain...lol. I bought a Tinkerbell keychain a while back and she has to have that in her hand while she's sleeping....
6. my comforter is the little silk labels you get on clothes . it stems back to a blanket i had with a silk trim when i get stressed, i fiddle with it and im always told off cos i shouldnt get stressed - the tell tale sign is my hand behind my neck feeling fir it! oh by the way im 38 years
7. Bless her whatever makes her happy i guess, for my son he has a small cuddly elephant cannot sleep without it, when i was small it was a cloth napkin?????????? i guess we can all be a bit strange when we are small. The only time we can get away with it.
8. She is totally normal!! My son likes to hump the floor when he starts getting tired. He will be 4 next week. He also likes to pick at my fingernail while he is falling asleep. I think kids have their own comforting things, and whatever they are, as long as they make them feel safe and comfy, just let them be. But, do take pictures to show her first boyfriend!!!
9. she probably likes the sound the velcro makes when it moves and she has probably worked out that putting her bum on it makes the most noise. my grandaughter likes fleecy blankets. she is not fussy what colour or pattern they are, except when she comes to my house. we have loads, (playboy bunny, chav check, Ferrari to name a few) but she only wants my Fernando Alonso one. any other one gets thrown on the floor, even the one she brings with her
10. lol...kids are cooky...it's all good No worries.
11. Both my boys have comforters. My oldest son is 7 and still takes a terry nappy which we've named Roly (as he used to roll the silk label, so much so that its now worn away). My youngest son 18 months has a bear called blue which is not so blue anymore. We tried to replace blue with an exact replica but he refuses to have it! Kids theres nothing stranger but I think its cute to have these little habits and it makes for good embarrassing stories when they are older.
12. Ha, can't say I've ever come across this with my own child but it's kind of funny. My brother, when he was growing up, wouldn't go anywhere without his bottle of mustard.
13. I think my daughter qualifies as a strange little person. Her comfort item is a small mole that I have on my collarbone. She started rubbing it as an infant while she was nursing, and as she got older, she would rub it whenever she was tired or upset. She's six now, and she still occasionally rubs it at bedtime or when she gets nervous or scared.
14. no but thats cute
15. My little girl is 6 and she has always had to have a hand full of dummys. She has one in her mouth, one wedged inbetween her nose and the other one in her mouth and one in each hand and then every so often swaps the round!! She looks pretty strange whilst doing this but it's the only way she will fall asleep!! Loved this question and really enjoyed reading all the answers - kids are great!
16. My identical twin daughters have different comforters, its how we tell them apart! Caitlin has "Bunny" And Lucy has "Ginge" (a small rag doll with ginger woolly hair... name after ginger spice of the spice girls lol!) one strand of her hair has a knot in it and she loves to twiddle it. Caitlin has 2 bunnies as she inherited her sisters when she decided she prefers rag dolls. I found another "bunny" on a car boot sale and bought it as an emergency spare in case one gets lost. She calls that one fluffy bunny because he is not as worn out as the others. Caitlin always says this is the girl bunny and this is the boy, even though they look the same! Lucy also has another rag doll called Pink and she is Ginges sister lol.
17. my little boy is 4 and he wont go to sleep unless his bed is full of toys even the hard ones like cars n stuff i try to take them off him cuz if he rolls over on them it will hurt but he wont have none of! just be carefull as to what your child has as a comforter as they could have accidents ( choking on them) things like that
18. hi lol bless this is so normal,my Little girls sleeps with all her teddies not one not two but ten and they have too be all place in the same place ever night and believe me if one ant where its suppose to be she will not settle until its right i use to think that it wasn't right cause she would be hanging out off the bed to make room for all these teddies but i guess in time she will give them up bless..................
19. there are many strange little folk out there! as one poster said, as long as they cant choke or strangle themselves, whatever they wish to sleep with is fine! my 'oh-so-cool-12' yr old daughter STILL has a bed (she now has our old double bed) FULL of teddies,dolls,cuddlies etc, and i often wonder how she finds room for herself! my middle daughter (9)has hung onto her baby blanket and my youngest (2) insists on taking either her toy rabbit or favourite doll up to bed, then throws them down the bottom end and leaves them there til she wakes up! loved reading all the stories of all our little folk! once you're grown up you're grown up forever, so the longer they hang on to these little quirks the better i say!!!