Barbara Latterner wrote:  In view of the recent findings regarding lowering the
risk of
> SIDS, it may not be appropriate to routinely discourage the use of pacifiers
> in young infants."
> I quote directly from this short article.

Barbara, you might want to point out to them that pacifier use is a substitute
to breastfeeding, which also has proven to be a factor in decreasing SIDS risk
and that the routine use of pacifiers is part of a pattern of more health and
lifethreatening ''habits'' like the use of ABM, leaving baby in it's own crib in
it's own room, propping baby up with a bottle, etc.

snip
> Besides aren't they called dummies in England and europe-I think that's quite
> appropriate.

In Dutch they are called ''fopspeen'', which means litarally ''fooling
artificial nipple'', so it is artificial and it doen't give you anything either!

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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