Nanny to the Rescue! by Michelle LaRowe

Author:Michelle LaRowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE GREAT PACIFIER DEBATE

Scene 12: Take 1 The Crib

DAD, putting two-year-old Henry in the crib. OK, HENRY, tonight’s the night. You are a big boy. Give me your pacifier.

HENRY, grabbing his pacifier for dear life and lying on top of it. No, no, NO!

DAD, reaching in and grabbing the pacifier from underneath him. Stop being a baby. You are two years old! A big boy! No more pacifier.

HENRY, screaming and sobbing hysterically. No! Mine! Give me! Daddy!

DAD, walking away to shut the door. You are a big boy. Go to sleep.

HENRY, screaming. Mommy! Daddy! Give it back!

(An hour later; Henry is still screaming.)

DAD, tossing the pacifier in the crib. Fine. Here . . . take it!

There is no right or wrong answer to whether you should use a pacifier with your child. If there was, the debate would have ended years ago. Pacifiers have been around for centuries. The phrase “born with a silver spoon in his mouth” is believed to have come from a time when parents popped in a silver pacifier “spoon” in the mouth of a child soon after the baby was born.

I always wondered

why babies spend so much

time sucking their thumbs.

Then I tasted baby food.

—Robert Orben

The ultimate decision on whether to use a pacifier is yours. With the information in this chapter, you should be able to make a decision that you feel is right for you and your child. There is also room for middle ground in the great pacifier debate. This is one instance in parenting where you can start out doing one thing and later change the rules, if you do so at the right time and with the right attitude.

The Pros of Pacifiers

Babies are born with the natural urge to suck. Many ultrasounds reveal a developing baby in the womb with her thumb sweetly tucked in her mouth. From this, we can gather that a baby sucks not only for food but for comfort—even before birth!

Nanny Tip

If your baby uses a pacifier, purchase several of the same brand and leave them in places you know you will need them. Have a stash in the car, in the diaper bag, in the living room, at Grandma’s, or wherever you spend your time with baby. This will eliminate the search to save your sanity when one can’t be found.

Most baby stores carry all-natural, child-safe pacifier sterilizer that you can spray on the pacifier and then wipe clean. And always carry a bottle of spring water in your car. Even an eight-ounce size comes in handy for washing pacifiers, preparing a bottle, or cleaning a boo-boo.

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