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Nope. Cleanliness isn't next to godliness.

It was the same story for polio. Kids whose mothers scrubbed the floor were more likely to get polio later in life (which is more dangerous). 

And the same probably applies to chewing food for toothless infants (pre-mastication) versus feeding them exclusively commercial baby food or grinding it up in a blender.  
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2306-pre-chew-baby-food.html

I was struck, when my children were infants, that when they took an interest in solid food, it was not my plate of food they went after but my mouth. They aggressively put their hands up to my mouth. Silverstone says the same thing, though there's no sign of that in the video. I would be interested to know if this behavior is hard wired.

Jennie Dusheck



On May 6, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Charles Carlson wrote:
> http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/04/30/peds.2012-3345.full.pdf 
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> A fascinating, small study on the benefits of sucking the baby pacifier clean.  Maybe cleanliness isn't next to godliness after all?  Well, at least some forms of cleanliness!

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