The First Years Soothie Pacifier Review

I work in the newborn intensive care unit as a nurse, and Soothie Pacifiers are the pacifiers we use in the hospital. I've always thought they were ugly, and never planned on using them with my own babies- until lactation recommended it because of the straight nipple shape which is more like a breast for nursing babies and helps avoid nipple confusion, according to the lactation consultant at the hospital. So I ended up buying these as well as the cute Gerber ones- and guess which ones my baby prefers? Yep, my son won't take the cute Gerber pacifiers, he spits them across the room, but he will go to town with the soothie pacifier! We ended up getting thrush after my son was at the children's hospital on antibiotics and oxygen for an infection- and the pediatrician told us we had to throw all pacifiers away EXCEPT the soothies. The way other pacifiers are made, there is a pocket inside the nipple, and you can't sterilize it. The soothies have no pocket and you can boil them and completely sterilize them. Another bonus, and probably why hospitals use these- they can't trap infection as easily!