Pacifiers (安抚奶嘴, おしゃぶり, 고무 젖꼭지

I guess I need to relisten to that song by Rema and his buddy Selena Gomez that was a hit in 2023 (maybe even an earworm).... I've been fretting about Baby Girl Yan's sleeping patterns, where she doesn't sleep for more than 10-20 minutes during the day. It's a common theme of parents to compare their children to other children, but sleep is so important for the baby and parents to take a nap, so I'd like baby to sleep for 2-2.5 hour increments, if possible. Maybe I'm stressing out a little to much, though, because a.) she's only 3 weeks old and b.) There are plenty of things where Baby Yan is a DREAM baby. She doesn't get fussy unless she's hungry, she is smart enough to latch herself onto her mom's breast, she has no problem pooping, she checks all of the boxes physically. The sleeping is one of the only issues that I'm worried about. Which is why we introduced pacifiers! I didn't know much about pacifiers except seeing it on TV, especially baby Maggie Simpson using it in the Simpson. I don't remember ever having one, and I don't remember my sister using one neither......I didn't even know what they're for! Apparently the function is right there in the name, it pacifies the baby. The first time Baby Yan tried it she spit it out, but today while getting a little fussy she tried it.......and it worked! I think she's still trying to figure out why there's no milk coming out of the nipple yet and still eagerly trying hard at it in case something did come out of it, but it does seem to work the way it's supposed to: calm the baby down so she isn't shaking and fretting for food or some other anxiety. It does actually make her "calm down." Really hoping this is part of the solution to the issue I've had the first three weeks of parenting: always having to hold the baby (we call her the Velcro Baby because she's stuck to us all the time) and comfort her because she doesn't stay still in the bassinet, mostly because she's not calm; always struggling and stretching and doing the Number 1 thing that babies are supposed to do: Go to sleep. Only when she starts going to sleep for extended periods at night will we be able to get back to somewhat of a routine schedule (although we won't ever be able to go back to our pre-baby routine ever of just being free and having beaucoup time for ourselves) Maybe I need an adult pacifier, or I'm making up for never having a pacifier as a baby by having bad habits as a child: still biting my nails occasionally to calm myself down, shaking my legs (MJ's mom has physically touched my leg for me to stop doing this), tapping my fingers, etc. I'm a pretty high-strung persno I've found, and I like to take care of problems as they occur and deal with them as soon as possbile so I can move on to something else, getting anxious when something is a persistent issue, which is why childbirth has made me even more tense; every time baby cries my blood pressure goes up, although apparently not to an excessively high level to prevent me from donating blood. It's possible baby is sensing my impatience and anxiety in the way I'm holding her and it's transferring on to her? I hope not, although my genes have gone to her already and my blood type as well; we might have the same temperament. I already see a lot of myself in her. I need to listen to that Rema song again.