PEDIATRICIAN & FAMILY PHYSICIAN RECOMMENDED
SteadyPaci™
Gravity-Resistant Pacifier
Designed to Stay Put

PEDIATRICIAN & FAMILY PHYSICIAN RECOMMENDED
Gravity-Resistant Pacifier
Designed to Stay Put
The First Major Update to Infant Pacifier Design in 120 Years
The pacifier falls out, the baby cries, and parents' sleep is constantly disrupted. This exhausting cycle repeats all night, every night.
An infant's primary tool for self-soothing vanishes the moment they begin to relax, leaving them fussy, frustrated, and unable to calm themselves.
In the NICU, nurses must spend critical time holding pacifiers for distressed infants, pulling them away from other essential, life-saving tasks.
By providing a reliable and constant source of comfort, the SteadyPaci allows infants to self-soothe without interruption, helping them stay calm and content.
The SteadyPaci's design keeps it gently in place. This ends the cycle of night-waking, allowing both baby and parents to get the deep, consolidated sleep they need.
The SteadyPaci offers effective, hands-free soothing for the most vulnerable infants. This liberates nurses' time, allowing them to focus on critical medical care while ensuring the baby remains calm.
SteadyPaci's™ patented stabilizing design harnesses the gentle pressure of an infant's sucking reflex, and redirects it up towards the bottom of the chin. This can reduce the frequency of pacifiers sliding & popping out of an infant's mouth, as well as the need for parents to get up to place a pacifier back in an infant's mouth. SteadyPaci's™ can be helpful in soothing preemies with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, to temporarily calming infants at nights or while driving.
The Counter-Weight Principle: The primary reason pacifiers fall out is a combination of gravity and the infant's natural mouth movements during sleep. As the baby's jaw relaxes, their mouth may open slightly, and a standard round-shield pacifier can easily slip out.
Stabilizing Base: The extended, flatter base of the SteadyPaci is designed to rest against the infant's chin and upper chest area. This creates a gentle counter-leverage. When the baby's mouth relaxes, the weight and shape of the base help to keep the nipple portion seated correctly inside the mouth.
Reduced Rotation: The shape is less likely to rotate and be pushed out by the tongue compared to a pacifier with a simple round or butterfly-shaped shield.
The Sucking Reflex: The fundamental way any pacifier calms an infant is by satisfying their innate sucking reflex. This reflex is naturally soothing and has been shown to lower heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels.
Uninterrupted Soothing: The main benefit of a pacifier that stays in is that the soothing effect is uninterrupted. Many infants wake up not because they are no longer tired, but because the source of their comfort (the pacifier) has fallen out, and they are not yet old enough to find and replace it themselves.
Longer Sleep Stretches: By preventing the pacifier from slipping, the SteadyPaci could directly lead to longer, more consolidated sleep for the infant. This, in turn, is a massive benefit for exhausted parents who are otherwise engaged in the "pacifier-replacement" cycle all night.
SteadyPaci™ is made of BPA-free silicone in the United States, patented by USPTO, and closely regulated by U.S. 16 C.F.R. Part 1511. Its larger surface area than ordinary pacifiers combined with a perforated chin-pad is also reassuring for parents concerned with choking hazards.
SteadyPaci's™ design generates natural stability using simple infant anatomy and natural reflexes, reducing the frequency of a pacifier sliding & popping out, which can help take the edge off when soothing infants.
SteadyPaci's™ stability takes advantage of the first 6 months of life by allowing infants to feel what it's like to keep a pacifier in the mouth, which may teach them to self-soothe quicker. The stable presence of the pacifier could provide consistent oral-motor input, potentially helping the infant practice and develop a more rhythmic, coordinated sucking pattern. This might translate to improved feeding efficiency and reduced frustration during bottle or breastfeeding.
The first line of treatment for NAS is non-pharmacologic care, which includes minimizing stimulation and providing comfort. Non-nutritive sucking (NNS) on a pacifier is a primary method for this. Infants with NAS are often extremely irritable, with high-pitched cries and tremors. A pacifier that constantly falls out interrupts the soothing effect and requires intervention, which can further agitate the infant. By staying in place, it could provide prolonged, uninterrupted soothing, helping to down-regulate the infant's overstimulated nervous system more effectively and for longer periods.
SteadyPaci™: The original one-piece, all-in-one naturally stable pacifier.
SteadyPaci Flip™: With the option to remove the stabilizing chin-pad.
SteadyPaci Convert™: Enhancing ordinary pacifiers infant may already be used to with custom designed stabilizing SteadyPaci™ chin-pad conversion add-ons, licensed to pacifier manufacturers.
Rendition of SteadyPaci Convert™ + Dr. Brown's Silicone Pacifier *
SteadyPaci™ can help! Think of a nurse or a parent having to manually hold a pacifier in an infant's mouth to promote rest and soothing. SteadyPaci™ provides that same gentle stability automatically, freeing up the nursing staff and parents when they most need it.
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* The renditions displayed are for artistic expression only and not final released products, nor have they been approved or endorsed by the pacifier manufacturers which SteadyPaci™ Convert is shown to be added to. The name “Dr. Brown's" as well as related names, marks, emblems and images are registered trademarks of its trademark holders and owners, and not SteadyPaci™. SteadyPaci™ is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way connected with Dr. Brown's products, or Handi-Craft Company, or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates.
Patent No. 10,137,060 B2. Copyright © 2019. Global Patents, Trademarks & Other Rights Reserved. SteadyPaci™ is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.