Epilogue
Colin will take the pacifier occasionally now if he is not already too frantic. The pacifier decision led me to think about the other decisions we as parents make. Some trivial and some more important. What do you do when your baby poops and then promptly falls asleep? Do you wake them up to change it immediately or let them sleep a while? When they are sleeping do you do things that you want to get done or things that need to get done? As one parenting dilemma is resolved, another one pops up.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Pacifier Pickle
During pregnancy and after birth the jury was still out for me on pacifier use. I knew I didn't want to give one to Colin for sure until breastfeeding was well established, but did I want him to have one at all? I went to my source for all things breastfeeding-The La Leche League. (More on LLLI in a later post I hope). I found an article about pacifier use. Sucking can be calming to babies, but they also claim that pacifier use can decrease milk supply in the mom because the baby spends less time at the breast. Then another article from the American Academy of Pediatrics said that it doesn't affect breastfeeding if not introduced before the first week and can decrease the risk of SIDS. What do you do when you receive conflicting information? Make a decision you can live with I guess. So I decided to wait as long as possible. Then, when Colin was a few days shy of 3 weeks he had been screaming for a long while and he would not calm down and I told Brian to get the pacifier- now! After all my internal struggles of deciding whether or not to give him a pacifier-he wouldn't take it.
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Melanie - I realized that I wasted too much time sweating the small stuff when I should have been loving on children when they would let me. I am very confident that you will make the right decisions for your precious boy. You both are great parents.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, every time you get one thing figured out, a new thing pops up!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the poop question. In my experience- it's it's your first you risk waking her and change her dipe. If it's your second, you let him sleep with a dirty behind occasionally and with a wet one often ;)