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When choosing the best and safest pacifier for your child, the first thing you will want to do is find the product that works best with the individual child itself. If the baby keeps throwing the pacifier out and screaming bloody murder chances are it isn't giving the soothing sensation the products are known for. Try a few sizes and brands to match up the babies mouth to the perfect tool.

Pacifiers made of one piece are the safest to be poking into your kids head. If the nipple on the pacifier is not secure to the base then you've got a choking hazard. Also avoid pacifiers with liquids and gels inside the nipple, because what starts out as a cool accessory turns ugly quick when the fluid leaks out.

Pacifiers are recommended to help prevent SIDS at bedtime. Therefore, even with all the horror stories you may have heard from mothers about weening the child from the item might be something to more or less ignore. With that said, if you choose to use a pacifier, actually buy a real one and do not give the kid a bottle nipple or piece of wood to suck on. There are not only splinters to consider, but once again a choking hazard. In case the first two warnings did not sink in: choking is bad. The safest pacifiers to avoid choking are at least 1.5 inches across.

Other considerations are the shield around the pacifier, to avoid rashes you probably want a vented one. On top of that one may also consider brightly colored options to be best, since pacifiers always tend to get dropped and lost in dark vehicle crevices. Of course once a pacifier is dropped into one of those holes where french fries also go to decompose, it i best to clean it because a clean pacifier is a safe pacifier.

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