Any other "big" kids with pacifiers? - Page 2

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I also needed to add, that I have a day care, and I do NOT let older kid have them to just walk around with. If they want to talk, it goes on the counter. They can go back and get it any time they want, but it stays there.

This is for two reasons.

1. I can't understand a child who is talking through a pacifier.

2. They inevitably put it on the floor, and one of the babies will stick it in his mouths. (ick)

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Originally Posted by nextcommercial

My daughter was getting strep throat over and over. She used the MAM pacifier. The doctor never once suggested that the strep germs were in her pacifiers. I always washed them in the dishwasher, I was young and stupid. If it had even crossed my mind that that is why she was always so sick, I would have at least bought new ones. But, when she was sick, she really needed her pacifiers, and since she was always sick, she always had them. Turned out it was a vicious cycle.

Just Visiting from Toddlers and slightly OT but....

Should I be replacing pacis after an illness? I thought the dishwashing was all I needed.

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Originally Posted by LittleYellow

Just Visiting from Toddlers and slightly OT but....

Should I be replacing pacis after an illness? I thought the dishwashing was all I needed.

I don't know. They are so expensive.

But, Jordyn had the Mam pacifiers, and was getting constant throat infections. She litterally had them every two weeks. She would go off antibioitics, and be sick again.

I would think that cleaning, maybe even boiling them should do the trick. But, if your doctor tells you to throw away his toothbrush, go ahead and throw away the pacifiers too.

Or if he seems to keep getting the same illness back like my daughter was, them throw them away and start over.

But, probably not for the average cold bug.

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Oh geez, I don't even want to tell you where my 3.5-year-old's pacifers have ended up and then back in his mouth...Never had any problems with sickness, though they may have contributed to thrush when he was a baby. I never boil them , just give them a rinse in the sink usually.

My son just stopped nursing about a week ago (maybe?) but he loves his pacifer. I get worried about it now and then, and when I pointed out to him that Daddy, Mommy, the dog, the cat, Grandma all don't sleep with pacifers he was sort of shocked, but he sometimes says that someday he won't sleep with one either. In the meantime I try not to worry about it. I don't care about teeth so much as whatever chemicals he's sucking on by having that fake rubber in his mouth, but. With breast milk he was getting plenty of environmental pollution too, so what the heck.

Even though my mom is a pretty sweet mom, she keeps asking me when I'm going to "break" him of the pacifer. She likes to tell this story about when she left me with a babysitter overnight when I was about 1 (I constantly had the binkie in my mouth). Apparently they forgot to give the babysitter the pacifer, and when they came back she asked how it went with the binkie. The babysitter said "What binkie?" and apparently that was the end of that. It makes me sad because I have a strong feeling this was the night I was left to CIO, and my mom wasn't even there. (Normally she would never let me cry.)