[sugarbabysmommy]

Interesting. I wonder though, is it the pacifier it's self or is the baby who prefers the pacifier. I have to agree that I see no cause and effect, only an association.

My distinction between pacifier and baby is this, my babe only liked the pacifier so long as there was an adult hand attached to it and babe loved "pop it in pop it out" games, or to suck on it for a minute at a time, never long periods. Babe thought they were great teethers and chewed on them rather than suck. Whereas I know other kids who the minute it's popped in that's that, it aint coming out. So is it the baby who sucks in a particular way that has the reduced risk, rather than the pacifier alone that has the protective effect?

I wonder if there was a certain amount of sucking time associated with the findings that's missing from the article. It's hard to imagine that the few times I put the pacifier in babe's mouth before bedtime and it was promptly ejected that so little pacy time reduced babe's risk of SIDS.

By the way, it may not be clear from my ponderings, but I'm not anti pacy, or anti any sort of lovey. What a waste of energy in my mind to be anti lovey.