Gumdrop Pacifiers
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When you are trying to pick out a good pacifier for your little one, it helps to look at the pacifier through the eyes of your baby. Very often, when we buy things for our newborns, we do so from the perspective of parents. The priorities for you as a parent for what makes a great pacifier is not the same set of criteria your infant might use. You can decide what a good pacifier is based on the information you gather and through discussions with other moms. Your baby only has one way to express her disapproval of the pacifier you give her. She can spit it out.
To your little one, the pacifier has one job. It is something to replace the nipple she nurses on during those times when her nursing instinct is operational but she doesn’t have to eat. So whatever can be done to make that pacifier replicate a natural nipple will be the design that will make that pacifier a success with the one person that matters and that is your baby.
Nothing is more frustrating to a young mom and dad than to have to keep buying more pacifiers only to give them to the baby to see them spat out. Babies are not subtle when they don’t like something. But the outcome is you might end up with a half dozen wasted pacifiers that you have to throw out before you find the one she likes and wants to stick with. Here is where looking at the pacifier through her eyes and making your initial pacifier purchase based on what your baby will use makes all the difference between success the first time and a trash can full of pacifiers that got spat on the floor.
Among the designs of pacifiers that experienced moms have found most closely simulate the nipple, the gumdrop pacifier seems to do the best job of satisfying every baby that uses it time and time again. The gumdrop design coats the pacifier with a soft silicone that babies like and find soothing to suck on. Above all the shape and styling of a gumdrop pacifier is made to simulate a natural nipple so baby takes to it right away. That is why the gumdrop approach to pacifier design is good transition between mom's nipple and beginning to use the bottle eventually. The pacifier gently trains baby to suck on an artificial nipple so the next step to the bottle is easy and smooth.
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These distinctions in pacifier design may seem minute to parents who have such big issues on their minds. But to your baby, that pacifier is a big deal. So give it some thought and get her the right kind of pacifier the first time. Everybody will be happier as a result.
