Finally! We finally got Anthony to take a binky.*
Though granted, he’s still somewhat…indifferent.
I don’t understand why some babies refuse to take a pacifier. Our Jem, for example, stood (or rather, lay there) on principle and never once gave into the transitory pleasures of the plastic plug. I realize it probably tastes funny at first and that it’s a disappointingly dry tap in terms of milk. It’s that whole “I’m gnawing on something and it’s not Momma” experience. This is really weird, they’re thinking. I’m sucking and sucking and NOTHING IS HAPPENING. This is scary. The well’s run dry.
Still.
Given the choice between…oh, I don’t know…having a nice, comforting oral fix and wailing long & loud & inconsolably because Mommy is driving and can’t pick me up just yet…
I’d choose the oral fix every time.
But that’s just me.
Now where was that drive-through Starbucks again?
AMDG,
Ed. Note: I grew up hearing my sisters refer to the pacifier as a suss or sometimes su-suss. (We’re French-Canadian and suss has its roots in the French word sucer which means “to suck.” Go figure.) Later, though, much later when I was expecting my firstborn, I stayed with a dear friend in Kansas who called her daughter’s pacifier a binky. Binky? Binky? The word sounded so odd and, yes, even foreign to my ears and yet…somehow…
…it stuck.
Binky. Nukkie. Paci. Plug. What do you call the pacifier in your part of the country?
I'm from western Canada, and here the common term for a soother is "soosy" or "suzy". Must be from the same French Canadian roots! Most of my babies have hated soothers as well, but my latest loves it. The irony is that she is a great traveller and rarely requires the o'ol suzy then…go figure!
We always called them nukkies. I later realized that Nuk is a brand of pacifier, so it must be like using the term "Kleenex" for all facial tissue.
Yay! We had the same problem with my son – he was 4 months old and so SCREECHY when I finally forced him into it. We call it "oshy" because that's what my daughter named it. ?
I'm from California. My parents always referred to the pacifier as a "my my". I have no idea why. My oldest son called it his "eesh". Again, I have no idea how this started or why that was the name, though perhaps I said something liked "eesh!" when looking around for a pacifier to quiet a screaming baby. 🙂 In any case, I just think both names are kind of funny.
I call it a binky, my in-laws call it a "paci".
Bobo. I think it means "little fool" maybe in Italian or Spanish. It's a family word and I have no idea who started it because we're all German.
And thanks goodness all my kids took one.
I'm in your neck of the woods but we call it Nuk or pacifier. My MIL calls it a pug. When I was a kid, we always called it "poto" and I have no idea why. I probably made it up and it stuck. I didn't know until I was an adult that it wasn't a real word!
We call it a Nukkie (noookie)!
Bridget will only take it if she is not crying, only if Clare gives it to her…Clare is the one who, then, naturally sits by her in the van!!
So, we have to catch her right when she starts to fuss, but not crying yet for it to work.
It's tricky!
Only one other child took a nukkie, the others refused, I don't understand either!
We call it a nukkie. Michael did not take one but the older boys loved theirs! Alexandra does take one (Thank goodness!), but it is the green one from the hospital (a soothie?). I still want her to take a MAM-boy am I picky, huh?
Since I am a country to myself (ha ha ha) I called them BEEP BEEPs.
I'm partial to Binkie…when #1 daughter was fussy we would rush to find it and when she had taken it we would say, "Bink-i-fication complete".
Praise the Lord for that Binkie. Daughter #2 never liked it …she sucked on her middle and ring fingers while playing with someone's ear…difficult, but it worked. Anyones ear would do, even her own.
Unfortunately, she will need braces…though she is rather fond of her buck teeth! Snorkie was a binkie man for a little while, but never needed much…he's a tough guy. Hoping new bwby will like the binky, too…you can eventually get it away from them…unlike fingers 🙂
Had to say that my word verification is gyntusive….definition: intrusive gynecology???
We called it a "pappy" for my brother and sister. When people say "binky", I go, what?
Anthony's eyes are FANTASTIC. So big and shiny! Love him!
Oh, forgot to mention: with my sister, she loved her so much, we had to hide them all over the house, in random places. We were still finding them years later, when she was about 10, in with the Christmas cake molds and things like that.
When we were little my mom and grandma called it a cigar… I win for the weirdest, plus ADULTS gave it that name.
Yep, we called them a "pac" (pronounced "pass") after my first daughter who ADORED her pac and only gave them up at the ripe old age of 4 (!) when she traded them for a Barbie!
Glad Momma gets a little coffee break in the car (and an auditory break, too!)
Binky. And Momma's milk was "This" LOL. When my daughter was 18 months she started saying: "I want my THIS!" everytime she wanted to nurse. It was hysterical at times. Use your imagination. When people didn't know what she meant it used to drive them bonkers.
I hear you! My little guy is 3 months old and is just now finding his fingers and thumb but has refused to take a nuk all this time. The car is difficult for us too for the same reason. 2 drive through Starbucks that I know of, one in Edina (50th and vernon) and St. Louis Park on highway 7. . .
Here in Australia, pacifiers are known as 'dummies'. That really doesn't sound so good, does it? I like the name binky better.
Joolz – South Australia
i hear it called a paci or binky here pretty often. i just call it a pacifier. *shrug*
When I was a baby, my parents called them a nukkie.
But I've also heard them called paci's over here. I'm in Wisconsin, so it's not like I'm in a different culture than you 😉
In our family, we've called them "choo-chee's". I have no idea where that came from though. I'm hoping our baby to be will take them willingly! They are a God-send in Church!
We've always called it a pacifer, guess we're not too fun here. But, I'm thinking that my dd who can say it plain as day probably doesn't need it?! Although she did point out that her older brother still uses his thumb sometimes and it's pretty much the same thing.
Dummy here in the UK too.
My boys liked them, my girls not.
Maybe Anthony wasn't so keen on the pink ;o)
Well, our crew ranges from 15 months to 22 years, and we have always called it a binky! I never knew in all the years I have been a mommy that there were so many different names for a pacifier! 🙂 JMJ
DH called them Nukki's for the longest time. I use the term plug. After all, it's a noun aaaand a verb. Both of which are very appropriate. 😉
A lifesaver. Hahahah!! Actually we called them bubba's. I don't remember how it got started but it stuck for all 3 kids.
My parents are from Ireland and many aunts/uncles older cousins spent time living in England before they came here … the pacifier was alway called "a dummy."
We basically forced our eldest to take the dummy because I feared she was developing a thumb sucking habit and I had cousins who sucked their thumbs til they were WAY past toddlerhood. I didn't want that. She was the only one. The others refused any artificial nipple of any kind and went from nursing to sippy cups.
Yep. We were nukkie people and we had them in every drawer and pocket we could put one in case one dropped or got lost. My youngest didn't give up her nuk till she was 4 and the dentist yelled at her!
Haha, my mother insists on calling it a binky, but my daughter (an early motormouth) named it Pacer and it stuck. If someone calls it anything else she corrects them. "that's not ____, it's my pacer!" one exception: when she patooeies it it calls it "that stinky binky"
Enjoy! My second wouldn't touch it until she discovered the joy of tormenting her sister.
We always called it a "noonie" 🙂
Here in TX I usually hear binky or paci but I do have one friend who calls it a dummy and another who calls it a pie.
Binkie.
I've only had three that took them readily. #1, #2 and #6. #3 had nothing, no thumb, to binkie, no lovey and he hit the nipple off the first bottle I ever tried at 9 months.
#4,#5 and #8 were/all thumb suckers.
#7, well she didn have a pacifier or suck her thumb until she was past two. I had to wean her suddenly and when the new baby was born she was stealing his binkies and when we stopped that she started sucking her thumb 😛
I'm enjoying all the names for what we call a paci in this house. Gemma will only take it if she is half asleep already, Dominic never took one and the others were all quite addicted to it.
Num-num here … that came from our neighbours' youngest daughter's attempts to say dummy. The name num-num stuck in their family and then transferred to ours. Our littlest was the only dummy user. Eldest DD was a thumb sucker who didn't manage to kick the habit until she was 11, and we didn't want to go down that route again! Middle DD wasn't interested in either thumb or dummy, but Naomi loved her num-num. So much so that even though the dummies are history her pet name is still Nomi Num-Nums ;).
We're a binky family. No idea why.
In our family, we call it Pacie or pacifier.
But lots of people say Binky or plug.
God bless!
My dad calls it the plug. Unfortunately, my son never took to it (nor any other form of self comfort) – he'd take a few drags and when he realized that nothing was coming out of it, he shoot me a nasty look then spit it out.
We call it Binky, but I had an au pair from Sweden who called it a paci. Only one of my four children took to it, the other three have (guess what?) a tongue thrust!
On my side of the family, all spanish speakers, we call it "el chupon" which means "to suck". Sounds like a wrestler's name to me though.
In our area of Alberta, we commonly call it a "sucky" or "soother". In our house it can also be referred to as "plug" or "cork".
For whatever reason Daniel started calling it a "butters." I have no idea. Anyway, long past the time he could actually call it the proper name, we still call it a butters. Oh wait, does it sound like my nearly 3 year old still has a pacifier? Oh! Um . . . ha . . .
My earthy Irish brother-in-law called it a "dummy tit". And I've never used one because of it (that, I'm a La Leche League fascist).