Odile wrote about the pacifier article. Dr Kramer and Barr. You can find it at http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n3/abs/joc10204.html Here's another abstract of one of the authors' articles. A medline search suggests his research is not limited to the course of normal breastfeeding: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9251974&dopt=Abstract Yummy, yummy. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html