I'm 37 weeks with my fifth child and wondering what the official rules are at the moment regarding dummies. My older children are all 8 or over, so obviously things have changed.
What are health visitors saying at the moment? None of my children ever used a dummy and I think they're horrible (I'm not trying to offend anyone and of course if a dummy is the only way to comfort your child you'd use it! But none of mine ever got colic.) but in those days no one thought they were a cot death preventative.
What are these studies that say dummies reduce the risk of cot death, where did they take place, did they involve exclusively breastfed children?
I'm not going to let my dislike of dummies put my child at risk! But I want to avoid a situation where I reluctantly use dummies, wince every time I look at my child with a big hunk of plastic blotting out half of her face, and then when she's 2 or so a new study comes out saying dummies didn't do any good after all!
If you've had a child recently, what did your health visitor say? Is not using a dummy considered as negligent as smoking around a baby or lying her on her tummy to sleep, or is it something they're still in two minds about?
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Cot death prevention and dummies
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l39 · 27/09/2009 09:16
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27/09/2009 12:43
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