<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/880009.asp?0si=-">Pacifiers may derail breastfeeding</A> 
Reuters
March 3
MSNBC.com
"Breastfeeding mothers risk creating “nipple confusion” and other problems 
for their infant if they provide a pacifier or formula from a bottle, which 
can derail healthy breastfeeding, a study said Monday. BABIES PROVIDED with 
pacifiers a few days after birth were at 50 percent higher risk of no longer 
exclusively breastfeeding a month later, the study published in the journal 
Pediatrics said.
Study author Cynthia Howard of the University of Rochester, New York, said it 
was unclear from her study of 700 infants whether the “artificial nipples” 
presented by pacifiers and bottles made a baby’s mouth no longer conform to 
mother’s nipple — resulting in pain for the mother and frustration for the 
baby — or whether mothers of pacified babies expressed less milk." [ This 
article has a free abstract online: Cynthia R. Howard, Fred M. Howard, Bruce 
Lanphear, Shirley Eberly, Elisabeth A. deBlieck, David Oakes, and Ruth A. 
Lawrence
Randomized Clinical Trial of Pacifier Use and Bottle-Feeding or Cupfeeding 
and Their Effect on Breastfeeding
Pediatrics 2003; 111: 511-518

    


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