From the Mouths of Babes

I have actually had nightmares about product recalls.  May I suggest, especially if you are pregnant, that you do NOT Google “pacifier” plus “recall”.  You have been been duly warned.

Luckily, mums now have many safe pacifier choices available to them that were not available just 3 years ago. And with every passing quarter, as a result of market demand, and better legislation, companies are phasing out pacifiers and bottle nipples that contain lead, PVC, latex, BPA (Bisphenol A), phthalates and other dangerous chemicals. (A subject for another blog, but do know that you are passing BPA to your child via your placenta or breast milk, if you drink or eat anything out of a can. Anything. Any can.)

I know it isn’t the most attractive pacifier in the world, but I bought several Natursutten pacifiers for our son, which are made, and I do not jest, of %100 natural rubber from the Hevea Brasiliensi tree.  Hopefully the tree is slightly more attractive than it’s progeny.

If you want something slightly more “fashionable”, you may consider this teething bracelet, that is also free of all the vile initials mentioned above. This cuff, which comes in various colours, may also be used as a reminder as to which side your baby last nursed on. Practical.

(It does seem a shame that the Whiskey gum rub has fallen out of favour. My grandmother swore by it, but now it leads to arrest. Except in Scotland.)

Please be vigilant choosing pacifiers, they are one of the most recalled of baby products as well as one of the most dangerous.

a) Choose pacifiers that do NOT have a nipple separate from the base. They can separate and pose a choking hazard.

b) Do not attach anything to the pacifier, it can strangle the baby

c) KNOW what the pacifier is made of, as you don’t want to regret it two years later while watching the 10 o’clock news

d) Move to Scotland