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Pacifier use has other issues, too.  Elsie Mobbs, who spoke at the VELB/ILCA
Conference in Vienna in 2008, has studied imprinting in mammals, including
humans.  She has a small book on imprinting and the effect of the dummy
(pacifier) through imprinting on this oral tactile object.

Mobbs, Elsie. Thumb-sucking and Dummy-sucking: Evidence for Human Imprinting
(Sydney: G.T. Crarf, 2007).  Available from publisher: [log in to unmask]

I have no financial or other interest in this book.



Virginia



Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA

Brisbane, Qld, Australia

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Ingrid Tilstra wrote:

There's also lots of evidence that the use of pacifiers in those early years
also carried risk - extremely high death rates correlating with periods of
increased pacifier use, for example.  And one area in which lots of
pacifier-use evidence is found is also noted to have been a very difficult
place in which to successfully breastfeed, probably for many of the same
reasons moms struggle now - a lack of support and information in the wider
society.

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