Beginning this week, I’ll move the swing to Joaquin’s bedroom (it’s currently on our bedroom). After a few days, when he’s settled on his new napping location, I’ll reduce the rocking speed by a number. I’ll keep reducing the speed gradually over a few days or weeks, until the day that the swing will not rock at all. Hopefully at that point, being motionless in his bedroom, and probably uncomfortable on the swing (but maybe not; it’s kind of cozy like a bassinet), he may be more willing to give his crib a try. Fingers crossed!

Thank you all for your input. It validated my thoughts, and gave me a plan. The saga continues…

we never had to worry much about the swing…the binky was the big one for Andres….someday, I’ll tell you how we did it…..a little sneaky, but it worked and makes a great story now! Adriana never used a binky, so weaning her of her index finger was next to impossible….fortunately, none of them arrive at age10 with diapers, binkies or sucking fingers…..

Knowing myself, I’d get him out of the swing though. Otherwise, you could end up with him giving up naps when he can’t go in the swing any longer. It’s less likely he’ll give them up completely now…, but in 6 months or a year, he might. Nana has said that Joey would’ve still been taking naps if he could’ve at 5, so, although Joelle quit at 2.5, I’d take the gamble that Joaquin might take after his daddy and nap well into his toddler years.

I understand what it was like when Jojo quit – it’s so hard to lose what little precious time you get. On that note, we had broken down and hired a maid for 2009. I was using all my free time cleaning, I hope this helps around here. It’s such a luxury for me!

One thing you can do to get him less excited about the swing is to do something subtle to make it more uncomfortable?

We were lucky in that we didn’t have to deal with weaning off the swing – both girls gave up on that pretty early.