Pacifiers Are AWESOME. Vacuums Are Magical.
Pacifiers are awesome, but pacifiers don’t always pacify Ezra. There are times when he so fussy that he seems to get lost in the chaos of his own screams. There are times when he will just refuse the pacifier by spitting it out again and again until we understand he has no desire to be pacified. During the past this meant walking around and damaging the hearing a little more as he screams and screams and scream until he calms down. While vacuuming the living area around the sofa today, I discovered the wonder of vacuum white noise.
I had heard that the sound of a vacuum could calm a baby, but I never actually witnessed it until today. -v- was holding fussy Ezra on the sofa. I was vacuuming around the sofa. As I turned on and off the vacuum, Ezra’s crying turned off and on. Then about an hour later Ezra was in fussy overdrive because he needed to nap, but was too fussy because he needed a nap to calm down to nap and began screaming and screaming, so I went into the room with the vacuum, plugged it in, turned it on. Ezra calmed down. He went from screaming like a primate, face all flush with crying rage, to a calm and quiet baby looking off into white noise land. Seeing the change so fast makes me believe vacuums are magical.