I hear it time and time again… “my baby was a good sleeper until we got back from our trip to the beach”. What happened?? We had such a fun vacation. We ate well, spent quality time doing fun activities and we slept in. Aha that last part- sleep- we might have hit on something here. What were the sleeping arrangements and sleep schedules like while you were on vacation? Did your baby or toddler have his own room with a crib just like at home or did everyone sleep all to

Whether you call it a pacifier, soother, binky or as my husband’s grandmother used to call it a “fooler, a lot of parents who use pacifiers feel a twinge of guilt the first time they stick it in their baby’s mouth. However, dealing with a screaming infant in the grocery line or on a long car trip will make most parents try just about anything they can think of to calm the child down! The truth is, it often works. Babies are born with the instinct to suck. They have limite