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Date: | Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:13:35 -0400 |
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>I can't find a wide based pacifier at the local store.
I suspect that there *are* no wide-based pacifiers, although someone else
may set me straight. A truly wide-based pacifier would require constant
suction on the part of the baby - just as a breast does. When the baby
stops active sucking and releases the partial vacuum that holds the breast
in his mouth, it simply falls out. Mothers don't want a pacifier to do
that. I *think* what makes a pacifier work is the narrow neck that allows a
baby's lips and gums to close on it, holding it in between sucking bursts.
Am I right?
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY
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