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She dislikes pacifiers. And slings. And being swaddled. Unlike - it seems - everyone else’s baby.

Or so I thought.

And then it turned out I was using the sling wrong: I kept putting her in sideways (lying with her head to one side and bottom to the other) and she prefers to be symmetrical, upright with her tummy against mine. And I was swaddling her wrong: not tight enough. I always had her swaddled so she could wiggle her way out, which woke her up. You’re supposed to do it so tight that she pretty much can’t move, and that seems to calm her down. As it would any baby: reminds them of the tight space they lived in before they were born.

But the pacifier: no magic formula. Not that I mind. She’s okay with it sometimes, once she’s resigned herself to the fact that she won’t get a human nipple for another hour or so. Because mine need a little break here and there and there’s no one else’s around. But there’s definitely no pacifier-love lost here. Though everyone tells me hah-hah, that can change.