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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: What supplies do I need for newborn?
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 12:59:54 EST
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>> What about pacifiers?
>I thought that pacifiers were a bad idea, but now I wonder if my
>daughter would be less of a thumb sucker if I had them in the house.

My first child loved her pacifier, went at it like crazy (you could
hear her slurp all over the house), spit it out at 3 months--refusing
to take it from then on, and never sucked her thumb.  The second
refused it from the first and sucked her thumb until she was 7.
So it seems pretty variable.  Part of the difference may have been
that the second was breastfed (totally, she refused a bottle for water
or juice, too), and the first was bottlefed.  Anyway, based on that 
experience, I'd use a pacifier if the baby is interested. 

>> Something you wished you'd thought about having at home before the
>> kid arrived there.
>A rocking chair in the baby's room.

The best mommy/baby type chair I had was a sort-of beanbag.  But it was
stuffed with foam instead of hard little things.  And it was very big--like
6 feet across.  It was great, because when you sank down in it your arms
were perfectly supported and it was no effort to hold the baby for hours.
Wonderful for breastfeeding.  My second baby and I fell asleep together 
in that chair during many night feedings.  It was great.  Don't know if 
you can find such a thing, but try.  (It's nice for kids, too, several
can share it.)

-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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