Are these binkies in good or bad taste? Billy-Bob Pacifiers are the brainchild of a dental student and an entrepreneur who met at a college football game. The dental student was wearing fake buck teeth to win over some college girls and the entrepreneur was impressed. Fast-forward five years and the two expanded their fake teeth line to include these unusual pacifiers.
Would you pop a joke paci in your wee one's mouth?
If you have ever been awakened by a crying baby that can't find her pacifier, you may want to take a look at the Paci Partner ($34). The Paci Partner is a weighted tube that attaches directly to a specially designed binky, making it easy for newborns to find their sucker in the dark of night. Designed by nurses and respiratory therapists, each kit comes with two tubes, two outer sleeves and three pacifiers.
Knowing that parents will do just about anything for their lil one to fall asleep on their own, would you buy a Paci Partner?
Pacifiers seem to vanish when moms and their babies need them the most? The Pacifer Holder from Amy Coe ($7) puts an end to digging through the diaper bag with one hand while bouncing a screaming tot in the other. The cute little pods easily attach to a diaper bag, stroller, belt loop, or anywhere else a new mama might find herself scrambling for a paci. Though my kids didn't have pacifiers, many moms have told me that since this case holds at least two binkies, they found comfort in knowing that they always had a secret weapon tucked away in a safe, clean place — far better than at the bottom of their purse!
If keeping up with pacifier covers isn't your shtick you may want to consider clips, which will keep your lil one's binky attached to her body.
What better way to do it than with an Eco-chic option? Fawn and Finch Handmade Pacifier Clips ($7) securely attach to your child's clothing using a heavy duty metal clip. They are made of fray-resistant linen ribbon from Japan and the plastic teeth prevent any damage to your baby's shirt or onesie.
The themes range from Little Red Riding Hood to sky blue airplanes and robots.
Think about all of the places a pacifier falls and what we do to clean them before giving them back to our babes. Now entertain all of the germs that those suckers gather and you may be running out the door to buy the Pipila ($30), the portable pacifier sanitizer that uses UV and ozone rays to kill 99.9 percent of germs.
Introduced in Australia and about to hit the U.S., the Pipila accommodates most pacifier shapes and does not distort the nipple in its cleansing process. The unit functions on two AA batteries and is lightweight enough to carry on outings with your lil one. The one downfall seems to be that it takes five minutes to fully sterilize a binky, and as anyone with a screaming infant knows, five minutes is a lifetime! It may be wise to simply take a second sucker with you, so you can pop a it in junior's mouth while the first one is cleansing.
Every new parent believes that their lil prince or princess deserves the finest of things, but are posh pacifiers a baby's best friend? Aristabrat thinks so. Outdoing all rhinestone pacifiers we have previously seen, the company has created a line of Swarovski-encrusted soothers for those born with a silver spoon in their mouths. The Princess of Wales sucker above ($120) features 330 crystals and is supposed to remind us of Diana's "humanitarian love for all mankind." Either that, or the jewels that are on display at the Tower of London.
Would you buy one of these soothers for your babe, or even as a gift?
At first glance the Pacifier Thermometer from Summer Infant ($8) seems like a genius invention. The device beeps when your infant's temperature reading is complete and will glow red if the temperature registers at 99.9 degrees or higher. Of course, traditional and ear thermometers usually work just fine for testing a lil one's temperature. Would you buy one for the sake of comfort? 
Pacify your bundle of joy with a WubbaNub. At birth, an infant's sucking reflex is strong and sometimes insatiable. Soothie pacifiers work, but babes have a tough time keeping them in place on their own.
Crafted by a sleep deprived mother, the WubbaNub is a Soothie (latex free silicone) pacifier attached to a plush stuffed animal. The toy helps keep the sucker in place — giving baby satisfaction and mama and papa a break.
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Sure, these Juicy boy and Juicy girl pacifiers are cute, but are they kid friendly? The boy edition features phrases like "Love Metal," "Heir," and "Only after Dark" while the girl set displays "Love love Juicy," "Juicy," and "hello Juicy world." At $48 for a set of three they cost at least four times more than usual pacifiers. My lil one certainly isn't ready for designer duds, let alone designer binkies. Would you give (or gift) one of these to a child?
If your lil one prefers a pacifier to your finger you're probably all too familiar with the "drop it, pick it up, wash it, put it back in and drop it again" routine. My doctor recommended washing new pacifiers with soap and water and soaking old pacifiers in white vinegar and water for a few minutes daily to keep them clean.
This works fine if you're just hanging at home, but once you go outside your babe's binky is susceptible to a whole world of different kinds of germs. I used to think of them as useless pieces of extra plastic, but pacifier covers are a simple and inexpensive solution to a very dirty problem and will keep pacifiers clean when you aren't near a faucet.
The options are many: from the relatively fancy sets like this Vice Versa Binky and Case, $12, to simpler pacifiers with built in covers.
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