Kathy says,

<< parents give babies pacifiers because that's how babies live in the US >>

The bottom line is that parents get addicted to pacifiers long before the
babies do.  Most new parents start out trying to use them judiciously -- when
the baby is crying a lot, or the mother is "nursed out."  (That lasts about
three days, when someone says to her, "You mean you are nursing that baby
AGAIN??")  Then they begin to feed the baby -- and if he is fussy after the
feed, they put the pacifier in.  Then they begin popping the pacifier in
immediately after the feed to PREVENT fussiness -- and then to lengthen the
time between the feeds, because "everyone knows", especially Ezzo
afficianados, that babies aren't really hungry, and we don't want to
breastfeed any more than every 3 hours, and we certainly don't want to use
mom as a pacifier, and we don't want to disturb other adults/people/children
w/ a crying baby, and ..... why then it is just easier to pin the pacifier on
it's cute little ribbon to baby's clothes so it doesn't get lost...and then
we can't bear to see baby without the colorful little whatever it is called
stuffed in his mouth.

I've had way to many moms come over to pick up a pump try to give the baby a
pacifier when he's perfectly content....

Who is addicted?  Hmmmmm

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Wheaton, IL
www.bsccenter.org
"Further up and further in."  -- C.S. Lewis

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