Babies are 6 months and they still like using the pacifiers that are meant for 0-3m.
How important is it to switch to the pacifiers for older children? I know we plan (or will try) to stop pacifier use before they turn 2.
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D kept using the nb one till we took it away at a year. He used the wubbanub, mostly, which is a nb soothie, so we figured why use the harder one any other time? I looked for info on the need to upgrade to a later stage one and couldn't find anything. Figured it couldn't be that important.
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I stopped when the newborn ones would fall out of their mouths. Probably closer to six weeks. DD2 like Wubbanubs but she only used them for naps so I didn't worry about switching to a bigger size.
DD3 likes a 6 month Nuk pacifier. She's enormous though so it figures that her big mouth needs a big pacifier. -
No. We used the soothie and there isn't a size difference (that I can detect), the 6 months+ ones are just harder rubber than the 0-3 month ones. LO used both, interchangeably and appeared to have no preference.
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We did not switch - my kids preferred the softer ones (NB)
the 6 months + ones are harder - I don't know the real reason but I always imagined it was because they start to get teeth and would be harder to chew off a piece and choke!
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The 0-3mo ones we had were smaller, so she wound up with deep grooves around her mouth from sucking it in so far. She was much happier once we moved to the next size, and immediately started rejecting the smaller ones. She never cared much for the soothies other than to chomp on.
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We only use wubbanubs so the soothie is attached and as far as my research has shown they don't make wubbanubs with the 6m soothies on them so she will be using those until we wean her off of them (much, much later, haha!)
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T came with one paci, a 0-3 mo one. He has rejected all others, including the same brand in the 6+ mo size. He's 7 months now. Our dog promptly chewed up the one he came with after about 2 days so we had a couple of nights of bad sleep and fussy days while we waited for our emergency Amazon order of backups to arrive!
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We tried to switch, but no dice. She's 2.5 and still using her NB Wubbanub.
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I have no clue what size ours is (we have mam and avent) but we never switched.
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@oliviaoblivia: interesting idea about size of baby affecting the size preference of the pacifier!
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We never switched, although a Nicu nurse friend told me stories of older babies biting the end off the 0-3 month soothie and then choking on them
that made me incredibly nervous but DS refused the 6+month ones!
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Personally, I think that it is a sales gimmick by the pacifier companies to try to convince you that you need to buy new ones. I don't think it's necessary.
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Yes we switched. I've seen stories of older babies getting the smaller pacifiers stuck in their mouth and chocking on them.
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We switched probably around 4 months? I guess I fell for the sales gimmick! I figured it had something to do with their teeth coming in and messing with that? Have no idea if that's true though.
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No LO only likes the smaller ones.
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We were always an age range behind. Partly due to preference, partly because she had a small mouth. She only took NUK brand, and when we eliminated them right at 2, she was still using a 12-18 month paci.
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Its supposedly a choking hazard to use the smaller ones with older babies, though I've never heard a real life story of that happening.
That being said, we switched. But our reasoning was for convenience....the bigger one falls out much less at night than the smaller one. He now rejects the small ones.
that made me incredibly nervous but DS refused the 6+month ones!
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