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Using Pacifier during pat/shh?
« on: May 17, 2006, 20:43:26 pm »
Hi Everyone - Hopefully this hasn't been covered already - if it has - I apologize in advance for duplication!
I am attempting the pat/shh on my 7 week old for the first time this week, and am finding that he responds well when I give him his pacifier.  Is this horrible? I've read that infants have an inate need to suck and that it is a way that they soothe themselves - so I would think that denying him the pacifier would not be beneficial...

Any advice would be fantastic.
thanks,

Frankie's mom