The baby pacifier
If you chose to give a pacifier to your baby, here are our tips to good use with baby.
Why the pacifier?
For baby to suckle the baby is a real pleasure and even a physiological need that reassurance.
This stage lasts up to 3 years. During this period, some babies are discovering for themselves how to calm down with the thumb, but not always.
The first few months, give your baby a pacifier to calm thus allows many tears.
To you identify what your baby needs: he does not his thumb, the pacifier but not why it’s a good thing baby also learns to calm himself with a familiar security blanket.
Note: if you are breastfeeding, the nipple may, especially in the first weeks of life, disrupt sucking reflexes and make breastfeeding more difficult.
Choose a pacifier
Choose a teat of a new quality mark (Bébisol ®, Remond ®, Chicco ®, etc..) Teats poor quality can be dismantled and become dangerous to baby.
Check the absolute strength of the nipple and change it when in doubt.
There are different sizes of nipple: choose the right one! In fact, too big nipple can cause the heart to high infant.
The hygiene of the teat
A pacifier, it often falls to the ground … and so it becomes dirty. The pacifier, not to carry germs, should be regularly washed with water and dishwashing liquid and rinsed. You can also sterilize.
The loss of the nipple
Baby fell asleep the pacifier in his mouth but was lost. When he awoke, he cries for the return.
If baby is big enough, put several pacifiers in the bed to be sure he found at least one. If baby is too small, no choice: he must get up!
Attach the nipple to the baby’s pajamas with a short chain (about 10 cm) that will not wrap around baby’s neck. There are such strings in all stores childcare or in supermarkets.
Do not tie the pacifier around his neck so it does not fall: this dangerous system could strangle your baby.
When removing the nipple?
Ideally, for his 3 years, your little no longer use the pacifier (or thumb) elsewhere than in his bed. The risk is to curb his language development.
It may be that your baby is dependent on its tototte, especially if used early. Few children who only decide to part with their pacifier.
Namely especially do not worry if your child still sucks his pacifier and do not make a drama. Help him by asking him to pose while you tell him a story, for example, or walk.
Pacifier or thumb?
The pacifier has several advantages over the thumb can be washed when dirty and discarded when the child is ready. It deforms under the palace baby because it keeps the shorter the thumb.
The thumb’s many other cheaper, we will not lose!