Diane--

I hope someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I understood the
pacifier issue came out of SIDS studies from OZ and the Netherlands, not
from US studies.

Melinda

Diane Wiessinger wrote:
>
> >[Pacifiers]have occasional theraputic
> >usefulness, and the new SIDS info is provocative...
>
> Mightn't the SIDS connection with pacifiers be that babies who are
> allowed a normal amount of sucking are less prone to this abnormal
> illness - that American babies are generally suck-deprived unless they
> have a pacifier, because so few are breastfed and most of the
> breastfed ones are at breast infrequently?  I'd sure want to look at
> *total sucking times* and SIDS, not just pacifiers and SIDS.
>
> Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
>
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