>[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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