For babies who love the soothie pacifier

twinmama2b

My babies will only take the soothie pacifier due to being in nicu for 4 1/2 weeks. I went online to find a clip/holder thingy and came across Hawaii Medical who sells the soothie along with the gumdrop which is awesome!! The gumdrop is made by soothie and has the same nipple, but is smaller, lighter weight, cute and it has a hole to attach a clip to it. I got them in yesterday and my babies love them and they look sooo much cuter then the soothie! You can get them in a few different colors and natural scent or vanilla and if you order 7 or more they are only $1.50. The soothie is heavy and I was consistantly putting it back in their mouths and when it would hit the floor it would bounce away and drive me crazy and now I don't have that problem...well, not as often  just wanted to share!

Jen

jlc071903

The gumdrop paci is the one my girls used in the NICU and still use today...they love love love them! I wish they made them in larger sizes.

macchiatto

The lack of a pacifier clip attachment has been bugging me, so that's great to know! Thanks!

ncsubride

You can buy a paci attachment for the soothies at Target and BRU one is a flower (girl) and the other is a penguin (boy)

Kerri

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i got soothie paci clips at BRU the other day. Still doesn't keep it in their mouth- but no paci really does stay in their mouth when they are that little - the nice thing about the soothie is you can stick your pinkie in the hole and feel when they have a good latch on it and know when you can move your hand away - this was invaluable in the middle of the night when DS was in the cosleeper bassinet - i could just reach over and feel and know he had it in

we didn't use soothies during the day - we used Mam pacis then - and saved the soothies for bedtime only.  Our dogs chewed up way too many of the soothies- something about them made the dogs go nutty and think they were their toys

jlc071903

the gumdrop paci also has a hole in it that you can stick your finger in as well! I love that feature...we've never used the soothies before so I didn't know there was a hole as well.

twinmama2b

the thing about the clips for the soothies is they are ugly and big and heavy..imo. Maybe it wouldn't seem big and heavy on an older child but it does for my little peanuts. The gumdrops have a hole so you can use any kind of cute clip. I got the crystal mam clip and I am also going to make some with some really cute ribbon.

pea-kay

yeah, i ordered a dozen of the gumdrop ones too, when the boys were about 6 months old. they used them in the NICU too and they still do. (still use the NICU ones, even!) love those things!

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i just looked up the gumdrop - cute thanks!

the soothies also have holes in them (maybe not all but the ones i'm seeing online) so any thin ribbon clip would work with those, too- but they are bigger/heavier.

twinmama2b

Oh that's cool, I have never seen a soothie with a hole for a paci clip.

pea-kay

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the soothies also have holes in them (maybe not all but the ones i'm seeing online) so any thin ribbon clip would work with those, too- but they are bigger/heavier.

i do use the ribbon clips with our soothies. it's not as easy as with the gumdrops, but you can get ribbon clips through those holes.