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So far, so good. Zoe cried three or four times today, kind of out of the blue, because her paci is gone. But between times she was very, very cheerful. We were all set for terrible tantrums at bedtime, but none materialized. She did cry, but when she was told she could *start* the night in bed with mommy and daddy, she perked right up. Daddy is in bed with her right now, she is clutching her RudOlph action figure (the present Daddy bought her to help her over the loss of paci, he ordered it weeks ago in preparation for this), quiet and peaceful. I don't know if she is asleep though. I haven't gone up to check. I just haven't heard any crying at all. I'm prepared for some in the middle of the night when she isn't quite awake and searches for it. But, all in all, I'm impressed with her handling of it. Brad did tell me, when I went up to check on the other girls and peeked in on Zoe and him, that she had told him "This is so hard, Daddy!" Poor baby. But we told her it was okay to be sad and cry, and that mommy and daddy would hold her and hug her as long as she needed us and she seems to find comfort in that. Amazing. I watched some horrible nanny on Nanny 911 take paci's away from a 3 and 4 year old and the parents left those poor babies to cry all night long. At least from the way they edited the show, it looked that way. I can't imagine doing that. The paci is a comfort mechanism. You can't take it away and not replace it with something else, namely and most healthily lots of hugs and cuddling. Moments like these make me wish we could do a family bed. Then no one would ever be alone!