Introducing a comforter?!

Hi hi My 11 month old has always been a hand holder since birth!!! Loves to hold your thumb / fingers when going to sleep/sleeping but this is causing frequent wake ups when he realises we aren’t there anymore. This has also lead to partial co sleeping from about midnight onwards - so need to transfer this to a comforter or teddy instead! (to get my own bed back) He is soooo uninterested in any comforter, even just holding one in my hand when he’s holding mine, he’s trying to push the comforter away and it’s waking him up more. I’m persisting, but does anyone have experience with transferring to a comforter? I’ve ordered him a super stupid expensive one from Aus that supposedly has the best reviews with inbuilt white noise etc but everything up until now has failed!!! Jellycats included he just doesn’t like the texture instead of my hand!!! TIA 😆
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Is that the riff raff? We tried that too with no luck!! I had 3 and slept with each of them rotating leaving one with my LO so it smelt like me - we also started with the hand holding and putting the comforter between us then slowly stepping back etc Took awhile!! Good luck 🤩

@Amy Yes it’s riff raff!!!! How are you getting on now did you manage to transfer to a comforter? 😊

Yep! Persistence 😂 he doesn’t use it as much now and doesn’t at daycare at all :)

@Amy amazing!!!! how old is he now and when did he stop using? 🤣

Have you tried a muslin instead? My LO liked that and then decided his cot sheet was the way to go. He’s now almost 4 and although doesn’t use it for comfort, still wants it on his bed at night.

My brother got my daughter a jelly cat raccoon ( Roscoe) at Xmas when she was 10 months and from then on introduced at night. So once she had fallen asleep I tucked it under her arm and kept doing it every wake up etc . She’s now 14 months old and she has him every night and loves him to pieces . I still feed/ rock her to sleep first but she does reach out for him at times when I lay her down. 😂 just wish I could feed her and just put her down and she held him and falls asleep herself but I’m hoping that eventually we’ll get to that point .

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