Preparing for birth of the kid, parents get the mass of things which were not familiar to them up to this point. And they approach their choice with heavy responsibility, being guided not only by expediency of the future purchase, but also by its safety. Among those things there is also a pacifier, opinions about which need are opposite.
Problem of a pacifier
Directly for the kid it is the device allowing to realize the need for sucking and also some kind of demulcent. Imitating a nipple of a female breast, the pacifier for the child becomes replacement of mom in case she does not nurse and also in situations when it is necessary to calm the kid. Materials of which modern nipples are made are various, as well as their forms. There is an opinion that when choosing a pacifier it is necessary to give preference orthodontic, considered as the safest for formation of teeth and not preventing breastfeeding.
The choice of a pacifier in many respects depends also on the child: some children refuse them in principle or prefer some concrete material or a form of execution.
Pacifier: pluses and minuses
Advantages of a pacifier are indisputable, it by no means not only sedative in those situations when it is impossible to receive a mother's breast, but also some kind of barrier between a mouth and what gets to it. The pacifier can become the real rescue from attempt to taste sandbox contents in the yard, garbage from a floor or any other subject which by the size in a mouth is located. But this advantage at the same time is also a shortcoming. For the smallest use of a pacifier are a risk of loss of interest in a mother's breast because how producers of pacifiers tried to imitate a shape of a nipple, after all the difference between artificial and natural is striking. The following danger consists in risk of formation of the wrong bite, that is at emergence in the kid of the first teeth regular use of a pacifier can change the direction of their growth. And one more aspect is a slowing down of development of the speech, to try to talk when something is present at a mouth, just it is impossible.
In everything sense of proportion is important and if parents decided that not to do them without pacifier, you should not drag out process of farewell to it up to the beginning of visit of kindergarten. And then both mother's nerves, and children's teeth will be intact.
Whether it is necessary to the child of a nipple
The universal answer to the matter cannot be in principle, as well as categorical recommendations on this subject till the child's birth. There is a mass of examples when sucking of a pacifier did not affect neither success of breastfeeding, nor on formation of a bite in any way, is equal as it is possible to find not smaller quantity of cases when parents perfectly coped also without this product. Therefore to understand whether to give to the child a pacifier or not, much more expediently after its birth. And if it really helps to appease crying and calms then why and is not present?