Let’s start with pacifiers!
Dummies, soothies, binkies, or however you like to call those little miracle workers have been soothing babies since the early 1900′s.
Wikipedia gave me a bit of pacifier history. Corn cobs were used as pacifiers in England in the 1680′s and sugar rags – a square of linen gathered in a ball with a spoonful of sugar, lump of meat or fat, or sweetened bread in the middle- were used in Europe from as early as the 1500′s. By the 1900′s, rubber pacifiers similar to the design we know today were introduced. The word Binky actually comes from a baby around 1935.
I once heard that some cultures soothe babies by letting them suck on a small chunk of lard. Have you seen any alternative pacifiers used? Please share!
