Tools for Difficult Baby Tasks

These days there are a lot of less invasive options to taking a child's temperature rectally. Exergen Temporal Artery Thermometer ($50) scans the forehead and reports the temperature, while the Braun Thermoscan Ear Thermometer ($40) gives a reading after five seconds in the ear. An overwhelming number of lilsugar readers also said they would try the Pacifier Thermometer from Summer Infant ($8), which rests in the baby's mouth like a traditional pacifier.