How to Handle Halloween with a Toddler and a Newborn
It’s not easy to trick or treat when you have to constantly stop to keep putting the newborn pacifier back in when the infant pacifier keeps falling out. A pacifier clip used to be the solution for this, but the Ingy Bingy Band is a better and safer way to fix this problem!
By Emily Rogers
If you have a toddler and are in the newborn phase this fall, you may be feeling nervous about halloween. How do you handle trick or treating when you’re recovering with a newborn? It can be hard to spread your attention to two tiny humans.
Here’s a few tips to make Halloween still special for your tot while you’re snuggling a newborn:
- Don’t be afraid to stay home: Help your tot get dressed up and dress up your newborn if you’re feeling up to it! Take pictures at home with your tot and send them out to trick or treat with dad or grandma and grandpa! You can still make Halloween special even if you aren’t going out door to door. You don’t need to push yourself too hard if you aren’t feeling up to it!
- Take the whole family trick or treating: If you’re feeling up to it, you can try to go trick or treating as a family. The worst that will happen is that you turn around and go home early! If you’re going to try to take the whole family out make sure you bring:
- A double stroller! Even if your toddler is old enough to walk, if they see their baby brother or sister in a stroller they might want to ride as well! Better to be prepared than carrying a tiny human from house to house!
- Dress appropriately: There is nothing worse than being underdressed on Halloween night! You want this to be a fun experience and if you get too far away from your home and it’s too cold your newborn and/or tot could end up getting very sick!
- Bring a pacifier for your newborn! If your newborn is getting fussy you will want something simple to keep them happy while big brother or sister is getting candy! An infant pacifier is sure to help make baby and parents happy this Halloween! Babies desire nonnutritive sucking so if they don’t use a pacifier they will either use their fingers or mama’s breast. Both are methods that are either far more taxing or harder to break!
However, it’s not easy to trick or treat when you have to constantly stop to keep putting the pacifier back in when the infant pacifier keeps falling out. It will make for an unhappy toddler as well! A pacifier clip used to be the solution for this, but the Ingy Bingy Band is a great way to fix this problem. It’s a pacifier wristband that velcros around baby’s wrist to help them self-soothe from as early as 4 months. No more frustration when the infant pacifier keeps falling out because the buttery soft wristband helps keep your baby’s paci right where they need it whenever they need it!
Any pacifier on the market attaches to this sanity saving pacifier bracelet. This pacifier wristband is great for keeping your baby happy on a walk, in the car, or at the dinner table. You never have to worry about your newborn pacifier falling on the ground or getting lost because your baby will always be attached to it!
The Ingy Bingy Band is not your everyday pacifier clip! This game-changing pacifier wristband helps babies self-soothe at a younger age than ever before! Instinctively, babies gnaw on their hands in an attempt to soothe. The Ingy Bingy pacifier wristband keeps their pacifier right where they’ll find it, allowing your baby to comfort and calm themselves while you do whatever it is you need to do!
Our buttery soft wristband comes in two styles to accommodate every pacifier.
Our Pacific style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Avent, BIBS, Dr. Brown’s, MAM, Nuby, NUK, Medela, FRIGG, Nanobébé, Tommee Tippee, and Chicco pacifiers.
Our Sequoia style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Itzy Ritzy, Ryan & Rose, and The Dearest Grey pacifiers.
If you are still unsure which pacifier wristband style is right for you, check out our style guide or text the name and/or picture of your preferred paci & we’ll let you know which style is right for you!