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Subject:	Re: Pacifiers - do they have any benefits?
From:	Holly McSpadden <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:10:52 -0400
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Hi Brenda,
If skin-to-skin, feeding and swaddling don't work, why would a pacifier? (and I'd be asking what might be wrong with the baby).
Warmly,
Holly McSpadden, IBCLC

Holly McSpadden IBCLC
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>>> Brenda Phipps <[log in to unmask]> 6/19/2014 12:01 PM >>>
Hi all,

We have recently gone to no pacifiers on our unit in the hospital. This was a huge step for us. We do have about 4 pacifiers at any given time stowed away for infants whose pediatrician requests one for the patient. As far as I know, this hasn't happened yet. But yesterday I was approached by our speech therapist, who is a big breastfeeding supporter, who questioned this policy of ours. She says that pacifiers can help organize and calm an infant when skin to skin, feeding and swaddling techniques do not work. She also believes they can be a tool for the infant who cannot organize a sucking response. I must say that I have seen pacifiers help in these situations in the past, but I also believe that we were giving way too many "casual" pacifiers out before our policy went into place.

So I am wondering under what circumstances your hospitals provide pacifiers to the infants. Thank you for helping me fine tune this policy of ours!!

Brenda Phipps, BS, IBCLC

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