Why suckling is so important for babies

Babies don't learn to suckle once they're born. The sucking instinct is a congenital reflex that is supposed to ensure food intake and thus survival. Even in the womb you can see on ultrasound images that many babies suck on their thumbs and fingers. However, early suckling is not only an exercise for later breastfeeding. It also helps to calm down, reduce stress and, last but not least, to entertain.

In the first weeks and months after birth, the sucking need of babies is the strongest. The baby clearly distinguishes between eating and "soul cosmetics": Sucking or sucking can help when falling asleep, because it is quite exhausting.

The more a baby can satisfy its sucking needs during drinking, the less it needs thumbs or pacifiers in addition. It is therefore ideal if a baby is breastfed as needed: i.e. can drink on the breast as often and for as long as it wishes. Children who are not breastfed or only partially breastfed have a stronger need to satisfy their sucking instinct outside meals than breastfed children. The reason for this is that the bottle usually fills them up faster and they do not have enough time to suckle.

Today you have a large selection of pacifiers to choose from. Above all, one should make sure that the pacifiers were produced without harmful plasticizers and colorants / plastics. Like the pacifiers from HEVEA, for example, which are made of 100% natural rubber.

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