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Contributed by: Katrina Causey on 8/15/2007

Everything in parenting truly comes down to what you believe. Your beliefs are what determine what new information you will accept. Hence such statements as, "that sounds logical to me," and "that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard."

I believe in peace, so of course anything termed a "pacifier" is going to appeal to me. For instance, the movie with Vin Deisel seemed very appealing, but turned out to be proof that the movie industry will do anything to make money.

Based on my beliefs, I allowed all of my babies the opportunity to have a pacifier. I was told several times over that this was bad. My first daughter sparked some interesting comments. I was told that pacifiers would ruin her mouth and that they were from the Devil. My pediatrician told me to take her off of the pacifier before she was three months old, and I accpeted his counsel and did just so. My daughter replaced said pacifier with her thumb. Since then, I have learned a lot (not to age myself, but she is a teenager now).

My second child never wanted the pacifier because she preferred her thumb. I saw no reason to fight her on this (she would not have understood anyway). But, the next baby wanted only her pacifier. It wasn't an actual headache, but it caused a few. We had to buy pacifiers every month, two at a time, and they are not cheap.

But, as it turns out, the last three children who all had pacifiers, gave up their habit at age four and have not returned. The first two, who had the finger-sucking habit, still have it. They have done battle trying to break the habit because they have heard all of the negative things that thumb-sucking brings with it.

The pacifier was a pain when we were dealing with them because we were always losing them, (in the middle of the night) leaving them (in another state while visiting relatives) or lying on them (for which I have no explanation).

If you choose to use a pacifier, set some rules as the child gets older. (1) Try to allow the pacifier only when the child is going to nap or is having an issue that requires extra soothing. (2) Do not allow the child to talk with the pacifier in his/her mouth. (3) Do not allow the pacifier when eating (it makes them wear out faster when they are chewed).

Because I believe that moments of peace in parenting are hard to come by, I accept that the (small assumption here) mom who invented pacifiers is a genius.

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