O has NEVER wanted a pacifier. We tried to give him one a few times when he was itty bitty and he rejected it about as quickly and with about the same vehemence as he rejected pureed green beans. I am pretty sure he thought we were trying to kill him, he was so displeased.
That was then. This is now.
He was reintroduced to a pacifier last week, immediately latched on (pun intended) to it, and has been faithfully attached to it ever since. He doesn't keep it in all the time, but every so often he plucks it from where it hangs and pops it in. He likes to go to sleep with it. He likes it in the car, and other boring times when Mommy and Daddy are not able to entertain him. And it is radically shifting his mood...
He had, I hate to say, become kind of a whiney baby. Lots of whimper/whine/grunt communication, all of which sounded like negative emotions being expressed, not positive ones, had come out of him in the last few months, and especially since he weaned himself in July. I am starting to think it was, at least to some degree, because he wanted something to suck on, he just didn't want to keep nursing.
Well sweetums, problem solved!
a teeny blurb about me
- another clueless mom
- I am a 32 year old first time mom who is continually shocked at how much those baby books and doulas and midwives don't tell you about having and raising kids...let me tell you, it's a lot!
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