Abby, Zoë and Enzo

Yes, we have begun with the pacifier.  I know some of you are thinking at this point that we shouldn't have introduced it so soon, or that we shouldn't have gone down this road at all, but Enzo has such a strong non-nutritive sucking need, and has actually mastered the art of suckling without eating while at the end of nursing sometimes, and also he found his thumb.  As tempting as just letting him pacify himself with his thumb is, something he can always get himself, it's also something that we can't take away later on down the road.

While Enzo was having awake time he was getting cranky in his drawer bed, so I picked him up facing outward and stood at the table, where everyone was eating.  This is where he found his thumb and began sucking away happily on it.  I went and got his pacifier to try and switch it out.  It took a little while of him messing around, but then he began sucking on it and keeping it in.  Then we had our first completely quiet diaper change.  Diaper changes around here are usually anything but quiet.  If Abby or Zoë are helping by resting their hands over Enzo's arms so that he doesn't flail and speaking to him softly, then the changes go better but he still gets upset at the end.  Quiet diaper changes are something that I look forward to at 3:00 a.m. when everyone is sleeping, once Enzo gets to a point where he'll just take the pacifier right away instead of it taking five minutes.