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We call it a ‘Peaceifier’. I can hear the birds chirping now. What did we do when we didn’t have one? We wasn’t these type of parents that was against the whole dummy idea. But we kinda was. Yes hands up I didn’t want my boy to have a dummy, we was doing so well just rocking him to sleep and feeding him. I just hated seeing newborns with dummies in their mouth, but this one day, I don’t know what upset him but he truly was upset.

He was about a month old when we decided it was time. When he did cry we literally did what parents do and kept him warm, safe and made sure he had a full belly. A dummy never crossed my mind when he was so young, he just didn’t need it. A few people did ask “haven’t you got a dummy?”, well no, not every baby has one. Some mums can back me up on this right?

Well until this night! Jamie was working away on site for the first time and I had the first night alone. So I went to go visit my Mum and Dad. We was having a normal night, watched a bit of tv, had tea and was having a laugh. Zac started crying, nothing out the ordinary, so I started rocking him and trying to calm him down. Strange, he wasn’t calming down. Mum asked to try and she was walking all around downstairs, weaving in and out of the kitchen to the living room. Back forth back forth. Still crying, what the hell was going off. Then my dad said i’ll try, this resulting in dad carefully walking up and down the stairs with him. Nothing was working, he was crying that much we had to strip him down to his nappy and just lay him on the floor. Feeling so hopeless, I had no clue what was wrong we tried everything and he was still full on crying. How can something so small cry for so long!. It got to the point where I told mum I’m going home. So we packed everything away and put Zachary in his car seat, still crying. I put him in the car and all I can remember is my dad saying

“I think it may be time for a dummy”

Ahhh! He said the ‘D’ word!, I thought nope stick to your guns, a drive home will calm him down. And finally the crying stopped, I also thought this is too good to be true so I went the long way home. Got home went through the door and boom! he was off again. OH MY DAYS! My ears were ringing, I was nearly crying, I had no one to help but did I want the help? I just wanted to sort this one myself, come on Teegan your his mum you should know what to do. So I thought maybe a warm bath would work, horribly I had to leave him in his bouncer crying whilst I got all the bath stuff ready. Personally I think I made the situation worse. The bath was not enjoyable and he was starting to go bright red. Right what now? I just put him into bed thinking if anyone would put me into bed after i’ve been crying I would go straight to sleep. And you would of never of guessed, he went to sleep. Well I suppose I should of known, mummy’s boy when it comes to sleep. Finally!

But now I didn’t dare move, after all that work I don’t want to disturb him now, so quietly got dressed in my pjs (took a sneaky picture of him) and we went to sleep. See dad he didn’t need a dummy. Feeling all smug, we had a good night sleep. Good night sleep nowadays is a 4 hours nap then feed then another 4 hours. Until the next day quickly came around and he was cry cry cry. Jamie was home and I just thought we have to try a dummy, he might not even like it. So Jamie did the honors and oh my… he was sucking on it like i’ve never seen before. I didn’t really know how to feel. I felt sad that I have kinda just let go and didn’t try hard enough, but also felt a big weight of my shoulders. The battles we was having with him to try and get him to sleep or just to calm him down have finally gone. I said to Jamie, ok I don’t want him to have a dummy all the time, just when he wants naps and bedtime. Hands up again, every time he cried we put the dummy in his mouth. Trust me it works so well, its a comfort thing and if he didn’t have that in his mouth then he would be falling asleep on my boob. So Dad you was right (he’ll love me for saying that) and yes it was hard but no I don’t regret it.

Link below are the dummies I use now. Enjoy the peace just click on the dummies and let your head rest.