How Do Pacifiers Help Babies?
The Ingy Bingy Band, a pacifier wristband, is great for keeping your baby happy on a walk, in the car, or at the dinner table. You never have to worry about your newborn pacifier falling on the ground or getting lost because your baby will always be attached to it!
By Emily Rogers
Most babies use pacifiers, but why? What’s all the hype? On the surface they seem like tiny objects that will easily get lost, choke your child and/or give them RSV. Truthfully, this could happen, but the Ingy Bingy Band, a pacifier wristband is a new pacifier clip alternative to prevent things like that from happening! More on that later down below!
All three of my kids have used pacifiers for at least a few months. Everything about being born into the world is new and scary and pacifiers have helped make the transition a little easier for our children and us!
If you’re on the fence about offering a pacifier to your baby we’ve provided a few thoughts to consider. Here’s a few ways that pacifiers help babies:
- Nonnutritive Sucking: Infant pacifiers are great sources for nonnutritive sucking. The American Academy of Family Physicians affirms that nonnutritive sucking is a normal part of your newborns behavior. They say, “Nonnutritive sucking is a natural reflex for a fetus and newborn, usually manifested by sucking the hands and fingers. The pacifier has been used as a method for fulfilling this innate desire.”
- SIDS: Giving a baby a newborn pacifier at nap or bedtime helps reduce the risk of SIDS!
- Self-soothing: Infant pacifiers are excellent for comforting babies. As adults we struggle to regulate our emotions so babies shouldn’t be expected to either. However, endless crying will cause any parent to go insane. Newborn pacifiers can help your baby calm down on their own without needing you to pick them up, rock them, or soothe them in any other way. It helps foster independence from the very beginning!
The problem with pacifiers is that the infant pacifier keeps falling out when baby cries, babbles, or moves too much. The Ingy Bingy Band is here to fix that problem! It’s a pacifier wristband that velcros around baby’s wrist to help them self-soothe from as early as 4 months. No more frustration when the infant pacifier keeps falling out because the buttery soft wristband helps keep your baby’s paci right where they need it whenever they need it!
Any pacifier on the market attaches to this sanity saving pacifier bracelet. This pacifier wristband is great for keeping your baby happy on a walk, in the car, or at the dinner table. You never have to worry about your newborn pacifier falling on the ground or getting lost because your baby will always be attached to it! It will also save parents mountains of frustration and money looking for and replacing lost pacifiers!
- Sleep: Infant pacifiers will help your baby to relax and therefore fall asleep easier! That nonnutritive sucking will calm your baby down quickly and help them settle in for bedtime faster!
- Feeding: When babies suck on their infant pacifier they are practicing the sucking motion used during feedings. This can help with breastfeeding and bottle feeding, especially with premature babies!
- Ease Pain: If your baby is getting shots give them that pacifier! Studies have shown that babies had less pain when they were sucking on their newborn pacifier!
The Ingy Bingy Band is not your everyday pacifier clip! This game-changing pacifier wristband helps babies self-soothe at a younger age than ever before! Instinctively, babies gnaw on their hands in an attempt to soothe. The Ingy Bingy pacifier wristband keeps their pacifier right where they’ll find it, allowing your baby to comfort and calm themselves while you do whatever it is you need to do!
Our buttery soft wristband comes in two styles to accommodate every pacifier.
Our Pacific style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Avent, BIBS, Dr. Brown’s, MAM, Nuby, NUK, Medela, FRIGG, Nanobébé, Tommee Tippee, and Chicco pacifiers.
Our Sequoia style should be used when your baby’s pacifier holes are near their nose and chin when in use. It is most commonly used with Itzy Ritzy, Ryan & Rose, and The Dearest Grey pacifiers.
If you are still unsure which pacifier wristband style is right for you, check out our style guide or text the name and/or picture of your preferred paci & we’ll let you know which style is right for you!