WubbaNub

The hospital gives you Soothie pacifiers. I tried a couple of other kinds (you get so many as gifts) and my daughter still likes the Soothie best. We were also given a gift of a Soothie pacifier with a little stuffed animal (pink pony) attached to it. It's called a WubbaNub! http://www.wubbanub.com/ When I got the gift I didn't think I would ever use it. However, when we were home and the pacifier fell out it would fall to the floor. My husband brought out the 'horsey pacifier' and we loved it. It has some weight to it, so it stays put rather than automatically rolling to the floor. Also, because Maggie sleeps on her side the pacifier will rest on the mattress and even if she spits it out she can actually go back to it on her own. We'll see if we continue to use it, but for the last couple of months we haven't gone anywhere without it. The person that gave me the gift got it at the hospital gift shop. Babies R Us does not carry it...I found out the hard way! One day my husband and I decided to go on our first outing with the baby. We of course went to Babies R Us! :) I had stuff to return and things to buy. We had Maggie in her infant car seat and placed it on the shopping cart. She was sleeping as we got her out of the car, but the cart ride from the car to the store woke her up. She was a little fussy, but not too bad. I decided to go wait in the return line and Kaleb was going to push her around until I was done. Maggie started getting more fussy and my husband started to panic. He grabbed a pacifier from the bag, but it was the Soothie on it's own and not the WubbaNub. She kept spitting it out and it fell to the floor. Kaleb was frustrated and didn't really know how to handle a crying baby out in public. He walks over to me in line and hisses, "You didn't bring the horsey pacifier," and storms back to the cart. I stood there stunned...thinking, "I didn't bring the horsey pacifier....YOU didn't bring the horsey pacifier!" I said, "we're in Babies R Us, go find one." As it turns out they don't carry them. We did go online and bought some others (you can collect all 12) and we now tell the story of Kaleb's first baby meltdown!