Mom Invents Device To Keep Pacifiers Handy
Every night, Erica Dubrawski put her baby to sleep with a pacifier in his mouth. And every night, Charles woke up wailing when he dropped it.
Dubrawski even tried stashing a few binkies beside him in the crib – but they just fell to the floor. That’s where she ended up, too.
“I’m on my hands and knees under my son’s crib. He’s crying for his pacifier, and I can’t find it. I don’t want to turn on the light because that will wake him up,” Dubrawski said. “I said, ‘There has to be a better way to keep these pacifiers in the crib.’ ”
What if there were some kind of pacifier holder that both mom and baby could reach for in the middle of the night, she wondered?
She decided to make one by poking holes for the pacifiers in a Chinese soup container lid. She used string to attach it to the crib railings. And then she crossed her fingers and went to sleep, waiting for her son to wake up.
“When he cried for a pacifier, I grabbed one out for him. I knew where it was, and I didn’t have to search. After a week of this, I started to take his hand over to the pacifier in the holder. I was training him to find it himself. He took to it. I was excited and said, ‘This is really working,’ ” Dubrawski said.
Now shaped like a teddy bear in a cheerful shade of yellow, Pacifier Place holds two binkies and attaches to a crib with adjustable straps. It sells for $12.99 on her Web site and $9.99 at retail stores.
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