Comforter A comforter is what I class as a ‘good’ aid, something your baby uses to go to sleep but that he does not need your help with between sleep cycles. Every baby uses an aid of some sort to comfort himself with just before he goes to sleep but unless parents have introduced the aid themselves, they are usually unaware of just what it is (with the exception of thumb-sucking). An unintroduced comforter could be holding, rubbing or playing peekaboo with the sheets or blankets, but sometimes it can be a little more complicated. I have seen babies play with the bars in their cots just before
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