Bibik gone.. Kokoch ket

Meaning: Pacifier gone, cockroach take...

Note: Alya named pacifier as "bibik"

Ever since Alya was just few days old, my MIL has been persuading us to introduce Alya to pacifier as she seems to never had enough of my milk. Our first few attempts are failed with Alya being such a drama queen. The moment the pacifier touched her lips, she'd acted like she'd choked.

On 20th May 2008 (exactly 3 months old), I was still full breast fed her. And routine, after work, picked her up from cousin's house (in quarters HKL then) and back to our home sweet home. Mom was not at home; maybe she's outstation... Hubby was in charge to look after her as I grabbed my shower. I came down and to my surprise...

Walla! A pacifier on her mouth. Shock? Of course I was! Hubby claimed that she was nagging for milk and since I wasn't available, he just tried his luck with the pacifier to calm her down. Surprisingly, she took it quite well. Err.. very much well indeed to be exact. She looked surprised to see me quite a distance but still there's nipple in her mouth. Haha.. Girl, you've been fooled by papa~ And there her episodes with the never be apart pacifier had started...

We bought her Avent pacifier until she was 1 year plus before changed to Tommee Tippee pacifier as it looked convincingly better. Ada ke pacifier yang can exactly be call "better"?

Anyway, previously we gave Alya her pacifier to put her to sleep. As time goes by, bile dia minum milk pown die nak hold on to the pacifier. And the worst thing, even with the pacifier pown x guarantee for her to straight away go to sleep. Senang cerita, she just loved the feeling of having pacifier in her mouth.

So, on Wednesday (24th Mar 2010), before went to sleep she was holding onto the pacifier before climbing up the bed and the pacifier fall. I quickly hid it and when she went and looking for it, it was gone. "Kokoch ket bibik" claimed Alya. And off she slept that night without her bibik. The next morning, I transferred her to mom's room and informed that she managed to sleep without pacifier but still I put the pacifier inside mom's bag next to her bed (bawah katil) -in case of emergency. Mom went downstairs for her breakfast, came up only to find Alya was asleep with the pacifier in her mouth. It meant, she had made an effort to climb down the bed, went through her maktok's bag, grabbed the pacifier, climbed up the bed again and dozed off... Hampeh tol~

The next night, I tried again and this time, hubby cut the pacifier's nipple. Nanti² kalo I dh jumpe, I'll post the photo. But still, bile die jumpe, die tetap hisap the half pacifier tuh. Ni kategori determine ke kategori ketagih?

On Friday (26th Mar 2010), I hid it well smpi I sendiri pown dah lupa kat ner... She did ask for it a few times for the few nights sampai ada one time tuh die macam whisper to me "Bibik where? Kokoch ket.. Kokoch, bibik Alya pishhh" Sedih sungguh rasa cam tuh, tp mengenangkan die x mengamuk mcm she used to bile xde pacifier, I kuatkan je semangat.. And the result, she can now sleep without the help of the pacifier lagi dah.. Alhamdulillah~