pacifier
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Prior studies have shown that non-nutritive suckling on a pacifier produces data that can be used to evaluate breastfeeding.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
As a counterpoint, Tiny alleged in the footage that that’s where King was allowed to use a pacifier until he was 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as a pacifier.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
She called herself a "human pacifier" and reluctantly started co-sleeping before realizing she needed to make changes before going back to work.
From Salon ● May 12, 2023
As I bounced the baby on my lap, Kiki listened to me, patiently catching a dropped pacifier and offering it back to the baby.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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On one of the days in court, she brought the couple's two young children, who were both dressed in suits with pacifiers in their mouths.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
Plastic is used in all kinds of things, and it is not controversial at all to say that the amount of mercury in, say, pacifiers for babies should be none.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2024
They held clocks, baby pacifiers, napkins and other cleaning equipment, as well as chains they said symbolized the challenges that domestic servants face in Indonesia.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Babies "R" Us was the go-to destination for parents looking for cribs, pacifiers and diaper bags until stores were shut in June 2018.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023
He said games as if he’d said pacifiers or tricycles.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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