The Daily Hailey

Not everyone buys into the whole amber necklaces for babies thing. Some people like hazelwood better. Some people think any necklace on a baby is unsafe. Some people think the whole thing is made up. To each their own, as always. We’ve seen amber necklaces work before our very eyes on our babies, dating back to Dekker. He was a class A drooler, that boy. He was soaking wet down the front of his clothes 100% of the time. That was our motivation to try the amber, not teething. The very next day after putting his necklace on him, the amount of drool he produced was legitimately cut in half. No exaggeration. It was wonderful! Since then, we’ve always used amber necklaces with our kids, regardless of how they drool/teethe/whatever else.

I’ve had this particular kind of amber necklace in mind for Wavy for a while now. I’ve seen them on Etsy, Pinterest, and really all over the internet. Its a basic yellow amber necklace, but it has one small bundle of stones on it that made up a little rainbow. I LOVE this idea for her, for so many reasons! Not only does it follow along with Wavy being our rainbow baby, but she has also added color to our lives like we never could’ve expected. I LOVE this idea!!

We usually get our amber necklaces from the same person, but she doesn’t have the rainbow ones. This is part of the reason I’ve been holding off on buying her one. The ones on Etsy are expensive. I also like going to someone I trust to give me real amber and not the phoney stuff. But over the last little while, Wavy has become just a liiittle bit fussier than usual, and a liiiiittle bit droolier. Placebo or not, I wanted to get this girly an amber necklace.

So I did something I kinda didn’t think I’d do. I gave her the amber necklace we had bought for Jamin.

I’m not sure if it makes me feel warm and cozy, or sad and weird. Still mulling that. However, it does seem to have settled out some of the mad drool action. So I’m thankful. But its different, for sure. I guess Jamin never really had a chance to give tangible gifts, so maybe this is the one time he can 🙂

Lucky little girly she is to get to wear her brother’s necklace. What an honour.