Pacis can hurt your boys emotional development?
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Pacis can hurt your boys emotional development?
| Fri, 09-21-2012 - 4:17pm |
What are your thoughts on pacifier use? A new study found that prolonged use in boys (not girls) can hurt their emotional development, because it limits the ability to mimic the facial expressions of others so you don't learn how to read them. Here is an article talking about the findings: http://www.ivillage.com/study-pacifiers-stunt-emotional-growth-boys/6-a-488198
What I never understand about studies like these is how they can correlate your emotional well being as an adult to one thing from your childhood. When it comes to my boys, my one that used his paci the longest is probably the most empathetic!
Do studies like these make you rethink pacifiers? How long has your child used them for?
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As for pacifiers...we don't use them. Jonah had one for about 10 minutes in the hospital just so they could do his newborn hearing screening. I'm not exactly anti-pasi, but I struggled with my milk supply quite a bit with all three kids, so I wanted absolutely all sucking (non-nutritional and feeding) to happen at the breast. Plus, I never trusted myself to be able to take the paci away!
David Nicholas 12/5/09
Expecting a GIRL 3/23/13
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Thank you Dedi and Kelly for my
It does make sense, Ruby. I still hear people telling their little boys to stop fussing because "boys don't cry." I hate that!
I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but this reminded me of something. The other day my mom called to tell me about a baby boy she was flirting with in line at the supermarket. He had a paci in his mouth and every time she smiled or cooed at him he would shove it over to the side of his mouth and clamp down on it with his gums to beam back at her and then juuuuuuuust as it was about to fall out, he'd suck it back in real quick. And then start over again to smile at her or chuckle when she made faces.
Seems like that particular little boy figured out how to mimic facial expressions just fine!
As far as this baby goes, we'll see. I'm open to using a paci with him, but if he doesn't seem interested, I won't push it and if it seems like it'll impede breastfeeding for any reason, I won't use it. I'm not of the mindset that every single suck of his life needs to be on my boob, but also think comfort nursing is fine/natural/normal. So, we'll see how it goes.
Teddy takes one... boarderline addicted. We had been able to cut him back to just in his crib, but he's teething his molars now and likes chewing on them.
I think parenting is probably the real issue here.
Jules - Happily married and Momma to DS, DD and expecting our Caboose Baby 11/24/2012
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Exactly - I just don't buy in to research like this because you can find correlations between anything if you look hard enough.
Evan never really liked the soother until much later actually - at about 10 months he started to love it. He's still on it now, but only for naps/bedtime. When he was a bit younger, he would get upset when other babies/kids are upset. He still gets very concerned about them when it happens, and does the same with mommy/daddy - so I'm not too worried about his emotional development.
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