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>They're back...vanilla scented pacifiers!!   I was working in the nursery
>this weekend and "smelled" one.  I can't remember WHY thay are so bad I
>just remember that they  ARE!   Can someone please help me out here.  I
>have to address this soon.

I don't have 'scientific reasons', but I think of:

1) Baby is associating some artificial smell with sucking, instead of
his/her mother's scent, which might be confusing and might interfere
with the whole infant/mother bonding thing.

2) Any time a smell is present, it is due to minute particles in the
air, so baby is being exposed to *another* chemical, and I'm sure
it would be *artificial* vanilla. (not that *real* would be any better)

Jane Khondker
LLL Leader
Potsdam NY