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Not sure that the pacifiers are a good idea, do they have them in the Finland box?
by gbog 13y ago
Not sure that the pacifiers are a good idea, do they have them in the Finland box?
- rayiner 13y agoWhat do you have against pacifiers?
- tptacek 13y agoNipple confusion.
- gbog 13y agoIt's inconvenient and better avoided. Toddlers cry, that's the normal thing. Some are unbearable and then a pacifier is ok but they become addicted and you're easily in deep shit if you travel and forget them or lose them (I had one in each pocket when taking a plane). I guess most kid don't really need it, parents need it, when they can't bear the cries. But even then I think you just postpone the annoyance. I have a friend whose pacifier story would make a good tv show, with the kid solemnly taking the thing in the dustbin and the father frantically searching the bin at 2am.
- rayiner 13y ago> Toddlers cry, that's the normal thing. Right, but toddlers also normally nurse to comfort themselves. If you're not breastfeeding (or if you're like me and you're the night-time parent but have no breasts) then a bink can be pretty clutch in terms of getting the kid to sleep so you can go to work in the morning.
- gbog 13y agoWhy, I don't mind your kid or any other using pacifier. I mind a bit the "pacifier by default" implied by its presence in the US baby box. Also, if you can get a kid to control emotions early, it is all the better, and pacifier may postpone this a bit.
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- therandomguy 13y agoIt is a self comforting device and recommended by AAP: http://goo.gl/ZnR17 http://goo.gl/ZnR17
- anigbrowl 13y agoMost babies come with perfectly serviceable thumbs for this purpose.
- rayiner 13y agoBabies can't figure out how to suck their thumbs right off the bat. Mine took months to master it.
- anigbrowl 13y agoTrue, though some start in the womb; it is a semi-instinctual behavior. I favor it because I think it promotes cognitive development, whereas a pacifier does not. Admittedly the calculus of this looks a bit different when the baby wakes up at 4am, after finally going to sleep at 2am.
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- ufo 13y agoAccording to the article, Finland remover pacifiers from the box in 2006 in order to promote breastfeeding.
- nawitus 13y agoThere's a 'biting toy' in the package, but I'm not sure if that's exactly the same thing as a pacifier. http://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage http://www.kela.fi/web/en/maternitypackage
- gbog 13y agoYou mean the circle shaped plastic toy at the bottom? That's not the same purpose, it will not block the crying orifice as do the pacifier.