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• n  someone who tries to bring peace
• n  anything that serves to pacify
• n  device used for an infant to suck or bite on

• PACIFYING PACIFIER USERS Contrary to a view held by many pediatricians, pacifiers do not lead to premature weaning from the breast, according to a study of 258 breast-feeding.
• To reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends giving Baby a pacifier at bedtime--but not before 1 month of age, when breast .
• Lying in her crib with a pacifier close at hand, she gave a couple of gaping yawns.

• conciliator
• make-peace
• peacemaker
• reconciler
• comforter
• baby's dummy
• teething ring

News & Articles

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• Germ-free pacifiers may mean sicker kids
  A group of Swedish scientists found that if parents cleaned their child's pacifier by sucking on it before placing it back in the child's mouth, the child was significantly less likely to have allergies at 18 and 36 months.
  June 20, 2013 - Ashland City Times

Quotes

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• Brian Cashman in Newsday
  It's almost like doing what we used to do has become people's binky, their pacifier, their security blanket,Cashman said with a mix of derision and weariness Saturday.
• Victoria Beckham in Sky Showbiz
  Posh Spice told the Daily Express: "I watched the film that Vin Diesel starred in as a male nanny [The Pacifier] and just loved it and thought that men can be just as good a nanny as women. I would not mind having a man as a nanny."