Dummy or Soother?

**sligoman** · 03/12/2006, 12:15 PM

Pointless poll but anyway...carrying on from here. What do you call a baby's dummy/pacifier/dodo/soother?

**osarusan** · 03/12/2006, 1:35 PM

This is a poor man's Rice Krispie cake/bun debate.

**strangeirish** · 03/12/2006, 2:07 PM

The way I see it..
Dummy-Dublin
Soother-Country folk
Dodo-Wesht
Pacifier-D4

**GavinZac** · 03/12/2006, 2:13 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

The way I see it..
Dummy-Dublin

quite appropriate actually

**micls** · 03/12/2006, 2:24 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

The way I see it..
Dummy-Dublin
Soother-Country folk
Dodo-Wesht
Pacifier-D4

Nah everyone i know in Cork says dummy

**sligoman** · 03/12/2006, 2:25 PM

Originally Posted by micls

Nah everyone i know in Cork says dummy

You go around asking them do you?

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**micls** · 03/12/2006, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

You go around asking them do you?

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Yes

**GavinZac** · 03/12/2006, 3:35 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

You go around asking them do you?

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she's a teacher, i'd say she hears it enough!

**Maz** · 03/12/2006, 8:11 PM

We call it dummy here

**dahamsta** · 03/12/2006, 9:21 PM

Thumb!

**pete** · 03/12/2006, 10:00 PM

I would call it a Dummy but Soother or Pacifier (americanism) is more grown up term. What the hell is a Dodo??? Never heard that!

**onenilgameover** · 03/12/2006, 11:54 PM

isn't it a dody???

**Magicme** · 04/12/2006, 8:42 AM

Dummy is what I always called it.

**noby** · 04/12/2006, 9:25 AM

A curse, that's what I call them. Never used one so far, and it would be a real last resort to give in and buy one.

**Magicme** · 04/12/2006, 10:05 AM

I think there is no harm in them, better than letting a child suck their thumb or finger coz u can throw away the dummy but not their digits! It is natural for babies to suck so it helps calm them. I hate to see kids over the age of 1 with one tho, I think by 1 yr old they should be drinking out of a cup, eating proper food and able to calm themselves without resorting to sucking.

My eldest had a dummy but my youngest had no interest in it so every kid is different. I suck my thumb still when am stressed coz I didnt have a dummy and resort to the old habit at 33 yrs of age when worried.

**Macy** · 04/12/2006, 10:20 AM

It's a dummy, it's rice krispie cake and it's barm not muffin.

**Magicme** · 04/12/2006, 10:22 AM

Bun and muffin...

**noby** · 04/12/2006, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Magicme

I think there is no harm in them, better than letting a child suck their thumb or finger coz u can throw away the dummy but not their digits! It is natural for babies to suck so it helps calm them. I hate to see kids over the age of 1 with one tho, I think by 1 yr old they should be drinking out of a cup, eating proper food and able to calm themselves without resorting to sucking.

My eldest had a dummy but my youngest had no interest in it so every kid is different. I suck my thumb still when am stressed coz I didnt have a dummy and resort to the old habit at 33 yrs of age when worried.

How exactly is sticking a dummy (or whatever it's called) in a baby's mouth better than a digit?
I agree with you on the issue of 1y/o with dummys, but if you shove one in a new born baby's mouth, they're never going to know any different.

None of my kids had any interest in one, because they never got one. It's not because they're any different, just that their parents didn't give them one. Slight difference there.

**Magicme** · 04/12/2006, 10:46 AM

But would u let them suck their thumb/fingers?

**osarusan** · 04/12/2006, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by noby

How exactly is sticking a dummy (or whatever it's called) in a baby's mouth better than a digit?
I agree with you on the issue of 1y/o with dummys, but if you shove one in a new born baby's mouth, they're never going to know any different.

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I think the idea is that with a pacifier the parent can remove the pacifier at any time and control the amount of time the child can use the pacifier, and the age when they must survive without a pacifier.

Obviously not possible with a digit.