Belle loves her pacifier. In the past five (nearly six, actually) months of life, the pacifier has been the one consistently effective calming tool for Belle. I am not exaggerating: it has been a roller coaster, as new parenthood should be, but that ingenious piece of plastic joy is the only reliable, predictable element of life with Belle.
When Belle learned how to reach for things, she first reached for her pacifier. When Belle figured out how to put the pacifier into her own mouth, it became a game (Belle will pull the pacifier out of her mouth and then put it back in...over and over and over...). How wonderful that she entertains herself! Now that Belle is teething, she sometimes chews on the pacifier rather than sucks on it.
The pacifier makes Belle happy on so many levels. Please, let her (and me!) enjoy.
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