Alicia Dermer wrote:
>
> Linda:  Peter Fleming, in the same (?infamous in regards to bf) study
> which I recently referred to, found that 52.8% of the control babies had
> used a pacifier on the night before the interview compared with 39.8% of
> the SIDS babies using one on the night they died.  Interestingly, the
> routine use of pacifiers was no different between cases and controls,
> only pacifier use on the night of death (or the night prior to interview for
> the controls).
Alicia,
I would tend to look at this NOT as a protective effect of pacifier use,
but as an early warning that something was not right with the SIDS
babies the night before they died...perhaps they fell asleep quickly
because they were in an autonomic regulation crisis, or were in too much
respiratory distress to suck the pacifier.
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Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  NYC  mailto:[log in to unmask]