Silkies?

Why do babies love silkies? I am assuming they are the blankets with the satin edges - if I am wrong let me know. I had heard/read somewhere that babies really love these and I got one out and it is like a sleep aphrodisiac. Little man sticks it near his face and almost immediately zonks out. What is that about??

*must stock up on silkies for new baby*

Philip doesn't have a silkie, but he has a taggie, which you can buy in the UK now as well. The universe would explode and we would all die fiery deaths if Philip didn't have his taggie when he's tired.

www.taggie.com

as i child i couldn't sleep w/o my fake silk edged blanket.  got lost once and my mother gave me one of her slips.  from then on i carried one of her slips or even her sliky (clean) underwear.  even now- feeling my one of my slips is really comforting in this primal way.

Ethan has got a silky AND a taggie book and neither of them has any effect on him whatsoever.  He has a little blue bunny my parents gave him that I put in his cot every night and he chews it if he's teething but that's it.

I've seen the magic of silkies.. I know of their power..   but I also have seen the magic of  'stuff' some kids get attached to.. like my nephew had  a green and yellow platypus i gave him called  'Ducky'..best friends  for  along time.as well and  his  'Blennie'.. which he used  to actually 'call out for'  if he lost it..as if it would come out to meet him!!    .and my cousin used to have  to hold  a pacifier in each hand  while he  had one in his mouth..  you never know.. Moms are amazing sleuths  figuring this stuff out..

My kids weren't into silkies, but elder dd has a stuffed lion (named, appropriately enough, Lion) that she's had since she was born.  She still sleeps w/it every night and we can't go on any trips w/out it.  We once accidentally left Lion in a departure lounge in the airport in Toronto....talk about panic!  She'll be 12 in December.  Younger dd (9yo) has a blankie w/fringies on it that she loves.  Same story....still sleeps w/it every night and wraps up in it when she's feeling stressed.  I wonder how much of the attachment is a conditioned response, though....child feels stressed, we give them <insert object here>, they get over feeling stressed (as they would eventually anyway) and they come to associate said object w/stress reduction....

Just wondering.....

Well I am amazed. He starts fussing in his tired way, I stick the a corner of the blanket so he gets both the satin edge and the inner part (polyester?) touching his face, covering one eye, and boom! He stops fussing immediately and zonks out. I have never seen anything like it. Not that I am complaining, just wish I'd known about this for the first kid!

Apparently my niece loved to sleep with a blanket over her face. She got to the point where she couldn't fall asleep without it on her face.

Babies. Strange little creatures they are.

My kids weren't into silkies, but elder dd has a stuffed lion (named, appropriately enough, Lion) that she's had since she was born.  She still sleeps w/it every night and we can't go on any trips w/out it.  We once accidentally left Lion in a departure lounge in the airport in Toronto....talk about panic!  She'll be 12 in December.  Younger dd (9yo) has a blankie w/fringies on it that she loves.  Same story....still sleeps w/it every night and wraps up in it when she's feeling stressed.  I wonder how much of the attachment is a conditioned response, though....child feels stressed, we give them <insert object here>, they get over feeling stressed (as they would eventually anyway) and they come to associate said object w/stress reduction....

Just wondering.....

We have a cuddly like that, aptly named 'Dog'.  He's from Marks & Spencers, and of course by the time she was hopelessly addicted to 'dog' he was no longer being manufactured by M&S anymore.   

So now we have to guard 'Dog' w/our lives, as she needs him to sleep.  I wash him in a pillow case every now and again when he gets particularly grotty, but he's already quite fragile from being cuddled, slept on, etc.

my oldest two never had to have anything.........

Caitie however...had a disney baby blanket that had a satin edge..she would rub the edges between her thumb and middles finger to go off to sleep.......that was until she started walking and got into the laundry one day and then it was my underwear....the silkie feeling ones.......and my nighties that was silkie......she would find a nightie in the dirty clothes and drag it into the living room and roll up in it.....I don't know how many times she would drag one out if she could and trip and fall over it.......

One time we had friends over for dinner and she came strolling out of my bedroom with a pair of my undies..thank god they were clean....... I must have left my drawer open and she went rummaging....talk about embarressed...then I had to put up with the wailing after taking it off of her.......crickie.....

even now at 14 she like silkie stuff.....she tries to be a big bad goth tho.........

Mamma gettin' some suga'  with all them silkiy stuff??  mmm  HMM..  go girl!!! 

you crazy woman!!! lol

I wore them as protection in bed........if I came to bed nekked my ex thought it was open season..........lol..
*shudder*

my ex thought it was open season..........lol..
*shudder*

Hunting Wabbits??    Or kitties?  ( in this case)  ... 

kitties.....uh yeah..kitties.........lol

I remember my youngest brother would latch on to any blanket with a satiny edge- he called it "raisiny" and had to have his "boo-dee-da" (blanket) in order to sleep. He'd put it over his middle finger and rub it on his nose as he sucked his thumb. Awwwww... (9 years later he had to have major dental work because of his thumb sucking hehe)

I do think it's adorable.  I have to remind him of it the next time we chat- he's 22 now hehe