Beyond the Pacifier
Fun & Soothing teethers for babies. No Latex, Lead, PVC, BPA, or Phthalates.
Recommended by Speech Pathologists for healthy mouth development.
Chewy Q Benefits
Pacifier Use
○ Encourages up/down jaw motion – Practice needed for developing biting and chewing skills, and important for later speech production.
Pacifier Use
○ Does not allow up/down jaw motion to practice biting and chewing skills – In fact, if baby opens her mouth it will fall out!
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Encourages side-to-side tongue movement – Skill needed to move food side to side in chewing.
Pacifier Use
○ Does not permit side-to-side tongue movement - The tongue must stay positioned in midline to hold it in place.
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Allows proper and natural growth of the hard palate – Does not indent baby’s malleable palate.
Pacifier Use
○ Can potentially indent baby’s hard palate especially with strong sucking, permanently changing its shape.
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Promotes proper alignment of the upper and lower dentition as teeth erupt.
Pacifier Use
○ Can inhibit proper dental growth and impair alignment promoting an overbite as well as a cross bite as teeth erupt.
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Encourages sound production – The mouth is open and available for sound exploration.
Pacifier Use
○ Baby’s sounds are limited - a pacifier does not allow mouth opening and closing, a skill needed for sound play.
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Allows an open mouth for breathing – Helpful when baby is congested with a cold and the nose is stuffed up.
Pacifier Use
○ Pacifier use keeps baby’s mouth predominantly closed and unavailable for oral breathing.
Chewy Q Benefits
○ Encourages tiny hands to grasp the Chewy Q and place it in baby's mouth - Supports hand to mouth coordination and self regulation of biting by baby.
Pacifier Use
○ Typically cannot be grasped by a young infant and placed in the mouth independently when biting is desired.
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