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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re overreacting. She shouldn’t have done it, but it’s not a great insult. Try to move on.

To the person who asked why anybody would use pacifiers—we introduced them because there is evidence they reduce the incidence of SIDS, which was my number one fear as a new mom. But we haven’t gone through the process of getting the kid to give them up yet. Maybe that will be horrible enough that we do things differently in the future![/quote]

The problems usually come when parents wait too long to take them off of it.[/quote]

They’re great when newborns still have that sucking reflex, and there’s a true physical need for that kind of soothing. Once they grow out of that, as long as you stop before it they develop a really strong emotional association, there shouldn’t be any problem.

We dropped down to only in the crib after a few months, then cut it out completely at about a year. One night of yelling that required additional parent soothing, and it was fine after that. [/quote]

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