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Sharin Ullah1, Peter Griffiths
1City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, London, UK. sharinu@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Breastfeeding has a number of benefits for both mother and baby, which appear to increase with longer duration of breastfeeding. The use of pacifiers has been negatively associated with shortened breastfeeding duration. The aim of this review was to determine whether the use of pacifiers actually shortens breastfeeding duration in infants. The Cochrane library, Medline, CINAHL and Embase databases were searched for systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and cohort studies examining the effect of pacifier use on breastfeeding duration. After applying appropriate inclusion criteria only two cohort studies were identified. In one the overall breastfeeding duration was longer in non pacifier-using infants compared to those given pacifiers (10 months vs. 7.5 months). The mean breastfeeding duration in children who were given pacifiers before 6 weeks of age was 168.5 days compared to 196.0 days for children who had a pacifier introduced later or never. However, there is no evidence to suggest any effect from occasional pacifier use, and it remains unclear whether pacifiers are an independent causal factor for reducing breastfeeding duration in infants.
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