>I can't find a wide based pacifier at the local store.

I suspect that there *are* no wide-based pacifiers, although someone else
may set me straight.  A truly wide-based pacifier would require constant
suction on the part of the baby - just as a breast does.  When the baby
stops active sucking and releases the partial vacuum that holds the breast
in his mouth, it simply falls out.  Mothers don't want a pacifier to do
that.  I *think* what makes a pacifier work is the narrow neck that allows a
baby's lips and gums to close on it, holding it in between sucking bursts.
Am I right?

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY

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