About PaciBaby

PaciBaby's real name is Caia, and as her blogname might suggest, she refuses to try life without a pacifier. My husband was locking in her carseat into our car one afternoon, noticed the half a dozen scattered pacifiers all over the seat, and remarked, "This is a pacifier graveyard - where the good ones go to die." Thus, the inspiration behind this blog.


She was born December 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm, four weeks early. She weighed in at 4 lbs, 12 oz and was 18.5 inches long. She came via emergency cesarean after I developed severe pre-eclampsia at 34 weeks and was placed on strict bedrest and medication. Neither approached worked, so we welcomed our little girl into the world a little earlier than expected!

She was born beautifully healthy, just a little jaundiced and with reflux, and on the small side. We spent four days in the hospital recovering together, then went home on a rainy Friday afternoon with Daddy, Nana, and Daddy's brother Joshua.

She was diagnosed with torticollis and positional plagiocephaly at her two month appointment, and has been having weekly physical therapy appointments. She has been responding beautifully in all ways but the shape of her head. A helmet may be prescribed at her four month appointment to help the process along.

PaciBaby loves to be close to me and Daddy in a sling, in our arms, or curled up in bed next to us. I practice most tenents of Attachment Parenting, and though it's resulting in a child who now screams if I leave the room for five seconds to even think about a shower, she is an affectionate, smiley baby who loves to interrupt her parents' sleep and showers, but rewards us with big, open-mouthed grins.

Here's to the future with a gorgeous albeit high-maintenance child!