My favorite blogger, next to me of course, is Blunderdad (singlefamilyasylum).  Who, by the way, better give me major props for promoting him here.  Anywho, I read a recent post from him about parenting his kids….well you should read if for yourselves.  It got me thinking about my own kids and if I was more uptight raising my first than the next ones.

Here’s the thing.  When my first daughter was born, if her pacifier fell on the clean floor I would sterilize it.  I would think to myself that the diapers (cloth, of course, because they were “better” for her than the disposables…except she got a rash so there went that idea) were difficult to deal with, but sterilizing pacifiers all day was a pain in the neck.  But what a good mother I was.

By the time my second daughter came around, pacifiers were sterilized….occasionally.  I only…