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<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/880009.asp?0si=-">Pacifiers may derail breastfeeding</A>
Reuters
March 3
MSNBC.com
"Breastfeeding mothers risk creating “nipple confusion” and other problems
for their infant if they provide a pacifier or formula from a bottle, which
can derail healthy breastfeeding, a study said Monday. BABIES PROVIDED with
pacifiers a few days after birth were at 50 percent higher risk of no longer
exclusively breastfeeding a month later, the study published in the journal
Pediatrics said.
Study author Cynthia Howard of the University of Rochester, New York, said it
was unclear from her study of 700 infants whether the “artificial nipples”
presented by pacifiers and bottles made a baby’s mouth no longer conform to
mother’s nipple — resulting in pain for the mother and frustration for the
baby — or whether mothers of pacified babies expressed less milk." [ This
article has a free abstract online: Cynthia R. Howard, Fred M. Howard, Bruce
Lanphear, Shirley Eberly, Elisabeth A. deBlieck, David Oakes, and Ruth A.
Lawrence
Randomized Clinical Trial of Pacifier Use and Bottle-Feeding or Cupfeeding
and Their Effect on Breastfeeding
Pediatrics 2003; 111: 511-518
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