Dear Friends:

In a breastfeeding course for health workers, a participant asked a fabulous
question about pacifiers. She wanted to know what the plan was for their
use. In other words, what recommendations do we health professionals make?

The only answer I could give to her was, "There aren't any." (I have no
personal experience with them, having nursed my babies whenever they wanted.
Not that personal experience is any basis for recommendations, but it
explains why my mind went totally blank when I heard the question.)

How DO you use a pacifier? How do you teach mothers to use them?  Are
mothers and families  taught about the risks (ear infections, missing
breastfeeds)?

What do you all think?

warmly, ( and very disturbed to see pacifier abuse, where 2 adults overcome
a baby's resistance: one holds the baby's head so it can't wiggle away, and
the other holds the pacifier in the baby's mouth. I never saw such a thing
until recently, and now I see it often.)

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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