Linda said:
I've found no GOOD reason to separate sucking from food intake. I've found
no evidence that "the urge to suck" exists in isolation, separate from the
need for simultaneous food intake and a degree of human touch.

Hmm, not even from those babies who suck their fingers or thumbs?

Seems to me some mothers use dummies (pacifiers) instead of letting their babies suck
their thumbs or fingers. Which is something, as we know, that some babies do - and some
don't, even when they are fed to need. Why give them the artificial thing when the natural
one is already there and available when they want(?!) Please no flames/lectures about
teeth!

cheers
Querida

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Querida David IBCLC
Alyangula NT. Australia
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