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Pacifier Greatly Reduces Risk of SIDS
Take that, you bink snobs!
A new study has found that use of a pacifier during sleep reduced the chances of a baby suffering from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by 90 percent. Furthermore, pacifiers eliminated the increased risk associated with babies who slept on their stomach or in soft bedding--factors that have been shown to increase the risk of SIDS as much as 10-fold.
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And compared to breastfeeding?
because they suck more right? well family bed would work too because they nurse more often in the night, plus they have mama next to them to help regulate their breathing
The AAP released revised SIDS prevention recommendations back in October (which included pacifier use) and the US Breastfeeding Commission issued this response, entitled "Mixed Credibility of the Revised AAP SIDS Prevention Recommendations":
http://www.obgyn.net/displayarticle.asp?
page=/news/pr_AAP-SIDS_recommendations
(Sorry, I can't figure out how to make it a link - delete the hard return between "?" and "page".)
For those babies who are not nursed on cue during the night, SIDS risk reduction seems to be one positive tradeoff of artificial pacifier use, amidst myriad negative tradeoffs.
While this study stands in favor of binky use during infancy, at what point would one consider that the benefits of the binky are outgrown?
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