If you’re relying on the pacifier crutch to help your baby sleep through the night, this thought has probably run through your mind: Wouldn’t it be great if babies could find their pacifiers on their own in the middle of the night, no crying for mom and dad required?
During our first round at parenting, my daughter’s bedtime pacifier dropping and crying-for-baba in the middle of the night is what drove my husband to come up with “the dream paci,” i.e. sprinkling at least five pacifiers in the crib before he went to sleep. This time around, however, we’ve added another trick to our arsenal, and it’s today’s hint: Glow-in-the-dark pacifiers.
Bear with me if this is old news to you, but it turns out there are a number of pacifiers on the market that are designed to be easier to see in the dark. MAM, for instance, developed its first glow-in-the-dark Night pacifiers in the early 1990s. While the idea behind the pacifiers was to make it easier for parents to find a binky in the dark, the pacifiers also are more visible to older, mobile babies (and toddlers) who have the use of their hands. MAM is giving away a $100 gift package that includes the glow-in-the-dark Night pacifiers to one lucky Hint Mama reader. Details below.
To be sure, easier-to-find pacifiers can lead to more dropping-paci-out-of-the-crib play in the middle of the night. However, at least when it comes to my 10-month-old son, he seems to know to keep at least one glowing pacifier handy. As a result, though our son engages in plenty of pacifier-plop play, we find that he rarely is “baba”-less, and we have to do the “dream paci” less often than we did with our daughter.
For more tips related to pacifiers, be sure to check out hints covering seven tips for breaking the paci habit, how to personalize your child’s pacifiers and how to keep the pacifier in baby’s mouth.
What’s your best hint related to pacifiers? Share it, and be sure to enter to win a $100 MAM gift package, below.
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leave lots of extra binkies in the crib for nighttime wake-ups
I just have a lot of pacifiers.
Having a few pacis within arms’ reach for somewhat older babies/toddlers who can grab them and pop them back in is handy!
I always have at least two pacifiers in in her crib, one clipped to her jammies and one clipped to the sheets
I have a feeling finding the paci in the dark with be harder when looking for two! Currently preggo with twins!
I store the Mam pacifiers in the containers they come in after sanitizing them to keep them as clean as possible. I also keep them in a nightstand drawer in my son’s room for easy access to give him one when he loses the ones he has.
These are fantastic. Someone gave me mam bottles at my shower for my first son who is now 27 months old. I bought a gift set of bottles that included pacifiers. He loved the pacifiers too. Then I went crazy buying them cuz they have great designs. I bought a glow in the dark by mistake, lol. They really glow all night and are so easy to find. And it’s hilarious to just see a glowing floating pacifier whenever he would sit up. I now have a second son and I bought them for him too. I still keep 4 around though cuz they still fall behind the crib and I don’t move the crib til all 4 have fallen.
Buy high quality, well designed pacifiers.
My hint would be to try to make sure the pacifier is attached to the baby’s shirt or on around the neck to avoid him/her losing it.
I would say make sure you keep them sterilized.
These will be lifesavers!
Pacifier clips are amazing, buy some! When I don’t use them I am constantly picking pacifiers up off the ground, haha