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I think 10 months is a great age! I didn't get mine from my grandma until I was a few months old, and it makes zero difference to me now. It's still super special

LO's lovey is a Blabla dog that DH and I bought her when she was born. It now lives solely at home after we temporarily lost it. She has two others that she also really likes and are pretty special. One is from her uncle, an Angel Dear that she sleeps with. The other is a Jellycats gorilla that she is pretty obsessed with. We bought it as a replacement for the dog that we lost (but have now found) I actually wasn't going to buy this particular one, but I looked down in the store, and she had it in her mouth Go with the Jellycat-they are so, so soft!

K's lovey is a travel-sized Sleep Sheep. We got it as a white noise machine that just strapped to the slats of her crib, but as soon as we started sending it with her to daycare, it became her favourite thing. She loves that sheep, drags it all over the place!
I just wish she'd gotten attached to something that was easier to wash/less expensive to replace!
@Danizaur: I didn't know anything about Jellycats until seeing them on HB, but I saw a few at Chapters the other day - they are SO soft! There were some on clearance for $12, and I almost snapped it up!

@Danizaur: The hedgehog kills me. And the raccoon. They are too cute!

L is just older than T, and she hasn't really formed an attachment to anything yet. She has a few things that could be a lovey for her: a security blanket with a bear attached to it that my sister got for her (similar to an Angel Dear Lovey), a jointed pink Ty Beanie Baby-esque bunny (this one: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TY-Attic-Treasures-Strawberry-Pink-Jointed-Bunny-Rabbit-Hare-Easter-Plush-Animal/171453702768?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140620075055%26meid%3Dc5bb66944be24562825ae6e523bc7835%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D20140620075055%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D181435862845), or a stuffed dog that used to be her dad's. The best one for her to get permanently attached to would be the bunny because it would be easiest to get multiples of--but so far, she really doesn't have attachments to any of her toys for long periods of times. The one she's really fondest of and always goes after is her dad's computer cord: we should just let her have that in the crib, no? Juuust kidding. So it could be that she doesn't get attached to a Lovey--I know I never did. I had a brand of dolls I really liked and kept losing so my parents kept replacing, but they weren't lovey-level that I had to sleep with them or got really sad without them or anything. But my little sister was obsessed with her blankie (which was actually a cast-off from me because I never slept with a blanket!). So who knows...

My hands. We've had several beautiful, soft lovies for her since before she was born, and she isn't attached to any item besides my hands. We hold hands A LOT, even after 2+ years!! It's only my hands too, no one else's will do!

Currently it's a fleece blanket I made him.

LO doesn't really have a lovey, even at 18m. He goes through phases where he's attached to something but nothing has stuck yet.

I made this one for LO. I started putting it in his crib and he got attached to it pretty quickly. It was really inexpensive and not too difficult to make. I am going to make two for baby 2 and another for him so that i have two to rotate and/or a spare.

http://www.hellobee.com/2014/01/09/diy-tag-blanket/

At 3 months LO is really into his A+A Burpy Bibs. I'll take them off after a feeding and he'll hold them like little blankets. So convenient.

LO has a snuggle bunny jellycat. One of my sisters and bil got it for her at Christmas along with a personalized book. She wasn't that into it until she was about 6 or 7 months. Now it's her favorite thing.

Gerbers cloth diapers. R uses the same. They are cheap and one pack comes with a lot. For S I just added a small monogram to differentiate between kids. I give it to him for naps, in the car, bed and when he is nursing.

C has two angel dear loveys, a tiger and an elephant. The tiger was a hand me down from my nephew who never liked it, but c took to it so well I bought the elephant as a back up. We started giving her the plain tiny A&A blankies but she likes these more.

@Danizaur: so, I don't really know any hunters, so this may be a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be kind f weird to have T get attached to a cute deer, when your husband hunts deer? Like wouldn't t be better for it to be a woodland creature that he doesn't hunt, like an owl or something? Or I'm totally overthinking it!

My oldest has a little stuffed dog that looks just like my sister's (real) dog. My sister got it for DD as a gift to take home on the airplane when we visited around 17 months, and DD just fell in love. We never expected it to become her lovey - we'd tried to introduce others with no success. It's been tricky because it was hard to find a spare - we tracked down one but it seems they are no longer in production, and it was a random Target purchase so no luck finding it on eBay.

My 4 month old is hooked on her pink elephant wubbanub. Once we realized this, we immediately bought duplicates!

When we started sleep training at 4 months, I picked a lovey for LO from the several Angel Dear & similar animals we were given at my shower. The way I picked is I laid all of them over my face one by one & picked the one that was most breathable haha! It was actually not my favorite cuteness-wise and I couldn't even remember who gave it to us, but I was worried about SIDS/suffocation so breathability was important to me!

Now at 10 months she is definitely attached to her giraffe (or Raf Raf as we call him). I love watching her on the monitor because when she wakes up the first thing she does is find him and bite his face

Edit to add: I will say that her attachment has really only grown since she started going to daycare part time and takes him with her. She liked to snuggle him before but she could definitely sleep without him - and probably still can. So I don't think 10 months is too late or that you need one before then! I just really wanted to introduce a lovey to make sleep training easier... I'm not sure it did, though!