Pacifiers are bought by more and more young mothers for their babies. What are pacifiers and why can they pacify their babies? Let's find out:
Pacifier is a substitute for the mother's nipple. It is a tool to suck the baby when the baby is crying and sleeping to help the baby be quiet. And it is the safest and best tool to relieve gum itching when the baby grows teeth.
Sucking is the only expression that the baby is born with except crying. Parents often see the baby sucking the nipple but not sucking or sucking the fingers. This is actually the baby's perception and understanding of the world.
Sucking the thumb will put a lot of pressure on the jaw and incisor teeth, which is easy to lead to incorrect occlusion of teeth and easy to breed bacteria.
The greatest function of pacifier is to satisfy the baby's non nutritional sucking and soothe the baby's mood.
Pacifier is a substitute for mother's nipple, so eating mother's nipple is the best way. The international breast milk Association recommends breast milk for 2-3 years. During this period, it can not only fully meet the baby's sucking needs, but also obtain necessary nutrition from breast milk, but also enhance the communication between mother and baby and promote the baby's physical and mental health.
Pacifier is a necessary baby product for almost every baby, accompanying the baby to spend the most precious baby time, but the pros and cons of pacifier are always a controversial issue. Many parents have a strong reaction to the use of pacifiers, think that pacifiers are harmful to the baby, or think that pacifiers are easy for the baby to form habits and dependence, and it is not easy to quit.
In fact, when the baby enters the oral period from birth to about 2 years old, the baby will be satisfied by oral activities. In addition to eating by sucking to maintain growth and development, it can also promote the touch near the lips and tongue through sucking, so as to get a happy feeling of satisfaction. Babies whose sucking feeling is not fully satisfied like sucking their fingers, which is particularly easy to cause skin damage and finger deformation, which is very unsightly. If they have such a habit, it may affect their dental development. Therefore, on the one hand, the pacifier can make the baby feel very secure after getting a sense of sucking, or when the baby wants to sleep and is upset, insert the pacifier and go to sleep with a smile. At this time, any baby's caregiver should applaud the pacifier, because its pacifying function allows adults to rest temporarily and not too tired.
Of course, advocating pacifiers also has other advantages: easy cleaning, satisfying oral desire and increasing sense of security. Some studies even pointed out that pacifiers can reduce the incidence of sudden infant death. As an artifact used to coax the baby to sleep, the emergence of pacifier has brought good news to adults taking care of the baby, but remember that the pacifier is for the benefit of the baby, not for the convenience of adults.