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Jo-Anne & Carlos Elder-Gomes <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:04:13 -0500
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In case any of you have read or given suggestions that twins may use
pacifiers more often than singletons, I treat pacifiers with the same
caution as I do scheduling. Multiples are more vulnerable to both
because even with the most responsive, attentive parenting they do end
up having to wait occasionally to be picked up, fed, touched... Anything
that makes it easier to have them wait can lead to the usual
difficulties, for which multiples are at greater risk.
(I admit, though, that for a thousand-mile car trip with my four-day-old
twins, I *did* use pacifiers... at least I tried to. I restricted them
to the car (the soothers didn't even leave the car, in fact). I don't
think that helped as much as having a devoted driver stop the car every
hour and a half to fetch juice and rest while I nursed them.
Incidentally, I have often noticed that strangers check to see what a
mother is doing about a fussy baby in a public place. With my
higher-need babies, I have often looked for ways to look like I was
doing something about it! A pacifier often pacifies onlookers,
regardless of how it affects the baby!
This falls into the category of ways to raise a baby so he won't
inconvenience others.
The subversives among us choose, instead, to make public statements by
openly asking the non-verbal baby if he wants to breastfeed and finding
as public a place as possible to do it, during which time we make sure
we interact abundantly with the child.
Jo-Anne

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