This Mom’s Genius Trick That Stops Her Baby Crying Is Going Viral, But Not Everyone Approves It
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One of the most common reasons to cry for a baby is waking up with pacifier fallen out, and the dear baby would so like a replacement.
While many parents have struggled with this over the years, getting up every hour or so to faithfully put the pacifier back while certain that it will soon fall out again, Laura Gerson, user of British parenting site ‘The Motherload’ has come up with an ingeniously simple life hack and it is proving to be very popular. “I’m completely amazed that this parenting tip has gone viral!” Laura told Bored Panda. “We put it on The Motherload Facebook group as a kind of humorous post because she looked so cute with them all around her, and cannot believe the response from it.”
Instead of a single pacifier in the crib, which can easily be misplaced or fall down the sides, Laura decided to place 10 or more pacifiers all around the crib. This is like a ‘bar’ for baby Amelia, who can reach out as soon as the pacifier drops and almost instantly find a replacement. “She isn’t a total dummy fiend and doesn’t even have them through the day. But it really soothes her having them through the night, and having more in there makes it easy for her to find one, and hold one (or two), Laura explained. “She loves the comfort of holding them and the fact that she can find them easily without the stress she causes herself of her waking when she couldn’t find one.”
The post was met with gratitude and amazement from parents who couldn’t believe that they hadn’t thought of such a simple parenthood hack earlier. “Lots of people do use this trick already, but lots of people don’t,” Laura told Bored Panda. “The way I see it is that if it helps just one family get a good night’s sleep while raising kids from something so simple, then it’s absolutely worth it. Happy baby, happy mummy!
Scroll down below to check out Laura and Amelia’s story, and feel free to share your own parenting hacks in the comments!
Being a new parent is hard, especially if you’re sleep deprived
This mum shared a hack on how she sleeps through the night every night
“Since my little one was about 3 months she’s gone to bed with 10 dummies in with her”
“I found that when she cried of a night all she wanted was a dummy, then she’d go back off”
“She isn’t a total dummy-fiend and doesn’t even have them through the day really, but it really soothes her having them through the night”
Immediately after sharing the post, parents started to congratulate her on the hack, agreeing that it does indeed work
Others had a very different pacifier policy
And some believe that it’s simply every parents choice, defending those who use pacifiers
What do you think about this hack? Would you try it with your children?
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I've learned not to read comments, even on here you find people getting mad at just plain drawing posts. Be a better person when you step away from your screen.
Had I also learned to not to read comments, I would have missed on this gem - "Be a better person when you step away from your screen." :)
Yeah, still not sure why exactly this is a controversial topic. They're just pacifiers for goodness sake!
NO! HOW DARE YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO ALL OF MY OUTRAGE?!?!?!?!?!?!
... Another reason why I don't read comments. People don't understand sarcasm so they just down vote comments like yours. This app has some of the dumbest liberal shits I swear.
Now calling liberals "shits" sounds like a truly judgmental person. This has nothing to do with being a liberal.
There are few topics where you are so quickly judged as when it comes to parenting. This is particularly true for pacifiers. Why black and white thinking? Yes, pacifiers will deform teeth and hamper speaking when worn all day long still by four-year olds. But also yes, pacifies help a lot of babies have a craving to suck, and even for breastfeeding moms it is not feasible to have the baby be on the breast half day long. And would you rather have the baby suck on the thumb, which is equally bad for the teeth if sustained? There is no "thumb fairy", who will eventually come. Thus: being a critical parent is a good choice, judging others is not unless things are really clear.
I was coming to talk about thumb sucking. Because my brother didn't have a pacifier, he used his thumb and not only sucked it, but pushed up the roof of his mouth leading to way worse dental problems. You can take away a soother but not a thumb! :)
Jaysus, who has four year olds with pacifiers!?
I feel like that's old. I've never met parents who had a kid who used pacifiers past maybe 2 or 3, but that's just my experience.
I have seen kids up to 7 or 8 out in public with pacifiers. But that's obviously an exception and not the rule.
parents usually
I did, I was allowed to suck on it for 10 minutes before going to bed at night, as they weaned me off them.
that is good comment.
I'd like to add that I had a dummy until I started school and I sucked my thumb - my teeth are fine other than having braces, but so do alot of kids for various reasons.
Okay, so I honestly don't understand why there's so much backlash against pacifiers. I used one when I was a baby, and never had any issues with sucking on my thumb at older ages, unlike the kids who didn't use them. Then there were all the kids who would suck on anything available to them, from blankies to plush toys. Which just seems highly unsanitary to me. It's a natural thing for babies to want to suck on something. It's instinct.
I swear the people getting mad about this either had the easiest kids to raise or never have had children. When your baby is crying non stop and you haven't slept for an entirety you do whatever it takes
I'd say you're lucky if a pacifier is all it takes. According to my parents, the insomnia I still often deal with is from birth, and I often needed one of them to hold me through the night to sleep or I'd cry, and I never liked pacifiers. My twin brother never needed pacifiers either, and he just slept. You put him in the crib, five minutes in he was in deep sleep, and even me crying didn't wake him up. Babies just are very different.
if a baby cries to be soothed it's not for no reason... -_-
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babies don't cry for no reason, so you should find WHY they cry instead of just giving them a pacifier and hope it goes away.
Babies cry for no reason (or at least no reason that can be fixed) ALL THE TIME. Sometimes they're not hungry, dirty or in pain, they just want to be soothed...which is what a pacifier does.
I've learned not to read comments, even on here you find people getting mad at just plain drawing posts. Be a better person when you step away from your screen.
Had I also learned to not to read comments, I would have missed on this gem - "Be a better person when you step away from your screen." :)
Yeah, still not sure why exactly this is a controversial topic. They're just pacifiers for goodness sake!
NO! HOW DARE YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO ALL OF MY OUTRAGE?!?!?!?!?!?!
... Another reason why I don't read comments. People don't understand sarcasm so they just down vote comments like yours. This app has some of the dumbest liberal shits I swear.
Now calling liberals "shits" sounds like a truly judgmental person. This has nothing to do with being a liberal.
There are few topics where you are so quickly judged as when it comes to parenting. This is particularly true for pacifiers. Why black and white thinking? Yes, pacifiers will deform teeth and hamper speaking when worn all day long still by four-year olds. But also yes, pacifies help a lot of babies have a craving to suck, and even for breastfeeding moms it is not feasible to have the baby be on the breast half day long. And would you rather have the baby suck on the thumb, which is equally bad for the teeth if sustained? There is no "thumb fairy", who will eventually come. Thus: being a critical parent is a good choice, judging others is not unless things are really clear.
I was coming to talk about thumb sucking. Because my brother didn't have a pacifier, he used his thumb and not only sucked it, but pushed up the roof of his mouth leading to way worse dental problems. You can take away a soother but not a thumb! :)
Jaysus, who has four year olds with pacifiers!?
I feel like that's old. I've never met parents who had a kid who used pacifiers past maybe 2 or 3, but that's just my experience.
I have seen kids up to 7 or 8 out in public with pacifiers. But that's obviously an exception and not the rule.
parents usually
I did, I was allowed to suck on it for 10 minutes before going to bed at night, as they weaned me off them.
that is good comment.
I'd like to add that I had a dummy until I started school and I sucked my thumb - my teeth are fine other than having braces, but so do alot of kids for various reasons.
Okay, so I honestly don't understand why there's so much backlash against pacifiers. I used one when I was a baby, and never had any issues with sucking on my thumb at older ages, unlike the kids who didn't use them. Then there were all the kids who would suck on anything available to them, from blankies to plush toys. Which just seems highly unsanitary to me. It's a natural thing for babies to want to suck on something. It's instinct.
I swear the people getting mad about this either had the easiest kids to raise or never have had children. When your baby is crying non stop and you haven't slept for an entirety you do whatever it takes
I'd say you're lucky if a pacifier is all it takes. According to my parents, the insomnia I still often deal with is from birth, and I often needed one of them to hold me through the night to sleep or I'd cry, and I never liked pacifiers. My twin brother never needed pacifiers either, and he just slept. You put him in the crib, five minutes in he was in deep sleep, and even me crying didn't wake him up. Babies just are very different.
if a baby cries to be soothed it's not for no reason... -_-
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babies don't cry for no reason, so you should find WHY they cry instead of just giving them a pacifier and hope it goes away.
Babies cry for no reason (or at least no reason that can be fixed) ALL THE TIME. Sometimes they're not hungry, dirty or in pain, they just want to be soothed...which is what a pacifier does.