Limited use of pacifiers: < 10 % of healthy, full - term, breastfed infants are given pacifiers by maternity care staff members.
For six of these steps, substantial improvement in reported hospital implementation occurred from 2007 to 2013, including having a model breastfeeding policy (11.7 % to 26.3 %), assessment of staff competency (44.6 % to 60.2 %), early initiation of breastfeeding (43.5 % to 64.8 %), rooming - in (30.8 % to 44.8 %), teaching feeding cues (77.0 % to 87.3 %), and
limiting use of pacifiers (25.3 % to 45.0 %).
Not exact matches
Limiting pacifier use is one effective way
of increasing milk supply if needed.
You can
limit the
use of baby
pacifier as she grows older.
Comparators included, but were not
limited to, oral administration
of water, sweet - tasting solutions, expressed breast or formula milk, no intervention,
use of pacifiers, positioning, cuddling, distraction, topical anaesthetics, and skin - to - skin care.
Extra safety steps should be taken to ensure that the risks
of using a
pacifier are
limited.
The American Academy
of Pediatrics and American Academy
of Family Physicians recommend
limiting or stopping
pacifier use after your baby is 6 months old to reduce the risk
of ear infections.
Limiting pacifier use is one effective way
of increasing milk supply if needed.