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    aliceinwonderland Guest

    Default How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    We have bough about 4, maybe more later...How do you keep them clean and where would you store them?? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I was just wondering what the paci protocol is!!

    thanks,

    eri

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    ericajosh Guest

    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    I place them in boiling water when I first get the pacis. Every so often I put them in the dishwasher in a dishwasher basket that I clean the bottle's nipples in too (buy this at any baby store). Occasionally I will boil them again. If it drops, I will just wash it off with hot water. Just check them every so often to see if they have holes, etc. I store mine in an open tupperware container or sometimes leave them in his crib for easy access. :)

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    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    I boil them once a week, rinse them everyday with warm sudsy water and store them in a cabinet in a tupperware.
    Mom to R and R

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    toomanystrollers Guest

    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    1st baby: boiled daily, kept in ziploc baggies
    2nd baby: rinsed in hot water, kept about 6 in conviently located places
    3rd baby: you don't want to know LOL

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    aliceinwonderland Guest

    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    LOL!!!

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    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    i boiled them whenever i thought about it.

    snack sized ziploc bags are super!!!!

    but day to day... i was the ol' rinse it off with hot water and hand it right back kinda gal!

    oh- and get a "binker leash!!!" something to clip it to baby's tee. SO helpful. wow.

    ETA:
    i bet the take and toss style rubbermaid/ziploc/glad/ containers would be great, too. they make a really little size that i love for schuyler's food.
    Liza has been hangin' around this board for six years.

    My sons are 4 and 6. And they are very loud.

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    papal Guest

    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    When you buy them they usually come in these little cases. That is what i use to store the spare binky in my diaper bag.
    I rinse it off a couple of times in warm water. Once it fell on the floor in the mall parking lot.... Leela was crying... there was no water in sight.... i wiped it with my shirt and gave it back to her... she probably ingested a ton of germs but she sucks on the carpet fibres so i figure it couldn't be that bad. bad mom! bad mom!

    oh.. once you find THE ONE... the paci that the baby accepts.. i would suggest going running to the store and getting several backups. Unfortunately for us, the ONLY one Leela liked was one sent by my dh's brother as part of a baby basket. Needless to say we could not find that one anywhere else and she rejected ALL the other ones (i have spent a small fortune on binkys). We finally found one with the same shape and size of nipple but it is ugly as hell.. looks like something from outer space.
    I am totally rambling...!

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    amp Guest

    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    We just washed in warm/hot water when it dropped in an icky place, otherwise, a rinse or wipe was sufficient. Every couple of weeks, I put them in the basket and ran through the dishwasher and let them dry sufficiently (they do collect a bit of water in the nipple, but it dries) and gave back to him. We had some pacis that had covers and others we just stored in a snack ziploc type bag.

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    Default RE: How do you clean/store pacifiers??

    At its height we probably had about 10 pacis in total. I initially sterilized all of them (as per the package instructions). I usually kept a couple in her room in a small plastic container and some downstairs in a similar container. At the end of the day, I would wash the ones that she had used with soap and water with the dishes (no dishwasher for us, =(. I have a bunch of small Glad containers that would fit two of them perfectly, so I used that to keep a spare in the diaperbag.
    Esther

    2 March girls (2003 and 2005)

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