https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:48:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2226125 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:54:40 +0000 delight 2226125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started putting it on her face during nursing sessions around 5 months. I let her have it in crib at 6 months. It's the first thing she grabs when she gets in bed and I don't think she'd sleep happily without it. She is almost 2 now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2226111 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:41:31 +0000 Bubbles 2226111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started giving it to him around 5 months, and he was maybe 8 months before he started to really snuggle it. It doesn't leave the cot though. Now at 18 months as soon as I give it to him he will rub it all over his face and snuggle it into his neck, so cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2226025 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 12:25:51 +0000 Meridian 2226025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started putting it in LO's crib around 7 months even though I didn't think he'd care for it. But I see him holding it in his sleep all the time now (he's almost 9 months). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197601 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 09:13:15 +0000 Happygal 2197601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsMini: super cute. Wow.</p> <p>I've tried to get her into one and push it up near her during nursing sessions. She actually seems to dislike it, like it's annoying to her. Oh well. Based on these responses, it seems like we have a few more months to go before she may want one anyway!</p> <p>ETA: I did leave it in the crib with her one time and came in to find it over her face. :shocked: It's lightweight, but it still freaked me out and I therefore haven't tried leaving it with her since then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197420 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 05:33:15 +0000 jape14 2197420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basically exact same experience as @gingerbebe: - we introduced around 4 months and only use at bedtime/naptime. He loves chewing on it so we have two that we swap out. Often he reaches for it while I'm singing his bedtime song before i put him in his crib </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197417 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 05:22:29 +0000 avivoca 2197417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's her pacifier (Wubbanub), so around 8 weeks. She loves them. I like that once I take the paci part away, she can keep the animal </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197392 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 02:00:30 +0000 lamariniere 2197392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of my LOs were not interested in lovies under 1 yo. DS finally became interested at 18 months (he's now 4 and still sleeps with AAALLL the lovies). DD is 18 months and only vaguely interested in her teddy bear and not interested in the lovey at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197356 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:13:15 +0000 SweetiePie 2197356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My ped told me to go ahead with it at 6 months so that's what we did. He's now 9 months and it instantly makes him sleepy when I hand it to him. It's great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2197275 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:01:00 +0000 MamaChin 2197275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For LO1 I started cosleeping with the lovey at around 3 months, then sleep trained at 6 months with the lovey. He is 2.5 now and it's his best friend. He is super attached, it's the only thing he wants when he is sick. "No dinner, no juice, no water, I just want my E(lephant)". We restrict it bed unless he is sick, then he can take it to the living room.</p> <p>It worked so well with him I introduced her lovey from birth for LO2. Same deal, cosleep with the lovey and sleep trained at 6 months. She is only 15 months but she recognizes it as a sleep cue, cuddles it all night and will call it by name. </p> <p>We also have smaller versions of both loveys in the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196851 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:12:51 +0000 catomd00 2196851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Introduced one at 6 months that was marketed for 9mos+. She loves it !! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196832 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:01:01 +0000 Tanjowen 2196832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Introduced his little puppy blanket lovey around 6 months, and he started to get very attached to it around a year. Now, at 17 months, inseparable! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196830 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:59:25 +0000 MsMini 2196830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced one to my DS at 6 months and he couldn't have cared less. He attaches to toys, but they change every few months. Right now it is a really hard vinyl baby doll.</p> <p>DD we introduced one at 2 months because I felt like she was looking for one. She attached SO quickly, and it helps with her sleep and naps so much I wish I would have introduced one earlier for DS. If/when we have a 3rd baby I will introduce one pretty much right away I think! </p> [attach=1297/15/npbzh4.600x400.IMG_3741.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196814 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:53:24 +0000 gingerbebe 2196814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced one at 4-ish months - whenever he got good at rolling both ways so that I wasn't worried about him getting it over his face. It's the last thing I do before leaving his room for sleep time. It's been a lifesaver because he uses it as a self soother and a teether. He doesn't like any kind of teething product (mostly because he's too busy playing during the day to gnaw on something) but at night he really feels the sore gums so he chews and sucks on his lovey. Luckily we have two and we can swap them out in the wash! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196732 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:17:48 +0000 daniellemybelle 2196732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We introduced it when she was about 4 months and we were sleep training. We continued to really push it on her and she liked it, but there was not a really strong attachment until she started daycare at 9 months. Her attachment has continued to grow - now she asks for him if she doesn't have him at naptime or bedtime and she likes to hold him if she is upset. He also enjoys eating cereal with milk... :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196725 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:16:45 +0000 PinkElephant 2196725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither of my kids ever liked one. We tried from birth. They're now 1 and almost 3. The older one chose a little beanie baby sized dog as her special toy around 17 months without prompting. The younger one still doesn't have anything she is attached to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196705 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:04:31 +0000 runnerd 2196705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsjets: that's adorable! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196704 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:03:54 +0000 mrsjyw 2196704@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gave DS an A&amp;A security blanket around six months, but he didn't really take to it until months later. At 2.5 he is still very much attached (we restrict it to sleep times only unless we are traveling). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196703 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:03:30 +0000 ValentineMommy 2196703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son has one he's had since he was an infant, but never showed interest until he was at least a year old, maybe a little older. Now at almost 2.5, he loves it to death. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196701 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:02:40 +0000 Mrsjets 2196701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish I'd have given her one earlier - she got (and still is) very attached to her blanket and by the time I decided to give her a lovey (which is from the same set as her beloved blanket) it was too late. She doesn't care about it at all but needs the blanket to sleep. If I were to do it again, I'd introduce it during nursing sessions early. </p> [attach=2201/15/npbwsg.493x600.image.jpg] [attach=2201/15/npbwsh.460x388.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196696 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:01:51 +0000 Cherrybee 2196696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E is 22 months and is obsessed with her bun-bun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196669 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:50:10 +0000 runnerd 2196669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm curious. We have been leaving F's lovey like the type you described in his crib for about the past 2 months, and he gives zero sh**s about it. He's 10.5mo now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196659 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:46:27 +0000 hilsy85 2196659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started using it around 5/6 months. By 9 months he was very attached, and has only become more so. At 2.5 he carries it around, has full on conversations with his lovey and includes it in his play. It.is.adorable. I hope he has it for years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196652 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:43:55 +0000 Mae 2196652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom got LO one for Christmas when she was 7 months old. She has never cared much about it, although we didn't put it in her crib because I'm a stickler for rules. Right when she turned 1 though I gave her a stuffed animal for her crib and she was immediately obsessed with it (even though she didn't care much about it when it was in her toy area). So maybe she would've been into the blanket lovey thing earlier if I'd given it to her to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196646 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:40:46 +0000 .twist. 2196646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>L started really caring about his when he was around 1 and is now 2 and still going strong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/age-range-for-a-lovey#post-2196628 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:36:03 +0000 Meowkers 2196628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What's the age range when kids use a lovey? I'm talking about the kind with the blanket body and stuffed animal head. </p>