Dummies Reduce SIDS

[LilMissy]

Have a look at this

Thoughts?

Aw! I knew there was a reason why we found DD so cute when she was sleeping sucking away on her precious 'dubeet', as she calls it.

She was a VERY 'sucky' newborn and one day when she was crying her head off and making these sad sucking motions, I caved and gave her the dummy.

She never looked back.

Ooh, get Aloha on this. This has apparantly been known for quite some time.

Mine would never countenance one though. The first one is a militant thumb sucker and the second just wasn't that kind of girl.

BUMP

Ha! I really shouldn't be here - this is definitely one of my PARP threads!
But yes, I did know about this. My son who is just four still has his for sleeping (but it falls out quite early on I think so he's definitely less dependent) but my dd - 8months - just won't have one. And now she's refusing naps and wanting to suck herself to sleep on ME a couple of times a night, I'm actually quite frustrated about it!
But yes, it's certainly something to say when people wrinkle their nose and say that dummies are 'disgusting' and the like.

very interesting - I'd like to know more

is it a substitute for bf to sleep for example? because the dummy doesn't have to be put back in if it falls out, so the beneficial effect occurs as the baby is falling to sleep?why do they recommend using a dummy for the first year? are the other measures against sids also to be taken for the first year?

great to see all the research and constant improvements in advice to prevent sids anyhow

Yes, the dummy is recommended in conjunction with the other stuff - feet to foot, sleep on back etc.

I think they say don't put it back because they don't want to turn parents into sleepless obsessed wrecks.

I am rather alarmed that they say don't use home monitors because there is no evidence that they reduce the risk of SIDS. I believe our home breathing detector monitor saved ds's life. It went off when he was a couple of months old. When I got to him, he was blue from having stopped breathing. He may well have started up on his own again, but I am sure glad that I never had to find out the hard way. (He had none of the other risk factors, and did use a dummy to get off to sleep). We only got the monitor because DH felt very strongly that we should (needless to say that I was VERY pleased with DH for getting it, even though at the time I thought that he was nuts to want to get it)