Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Dummies for breastfed babies prevent cot death?

Had DD2s health visitor come over today, for our 1st visit, adn she gave me all the usual paperwork about breastfeeding, weaning and sleeping. She also happened to mention that it was now 'reccomended' that any breastfed baby over 4weeks had a dummy when being put to bed, as it was researched and showed it reduced the risk of cot death... I told her DD2 wasn't having a dummy, and after she'd gone decided to do a little more research in regard to this dummy reccomendation...
I've come up with this links:
http://www.babyexpert.com/Baby/Can-a-dummy-prevent-cot-death%5E/v1


Comments appriciated on this one, as I'm finding it very hard to swallow (excuse the pun), and would love to read research papers which claim this to be the case.

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