Contents:
- Medical Video: Is it bad to give my baby a binky if I'm breastfeeding?
- Benefits of baby pacifiers
- Also consider the disadvantages of baby pacifiers
- So do babies need pacifiers?
Medical Video: Is it bad to give my baby a binky if I'm breastfeeding?
Did you know that one of the habits that a baby likes is when he or she is ngempeng or suck dot? Sucking (sucking) is a normal reflex from a baby that can make him feel calm. Every child is different, there are those who like to suck pacifiers or pacifiers to calm themselves but there are also those who can calm down without needing a pacifier. Then is it really necessary to use baby pacifiers? If you are confused, here are things that can be taken into consideration in choosing a baby pacifier.
Benefits of baby pacifiers
Baby pacifiers can make your child more calm and distract when needed, for example when being injected or other medical measures that can make the baby fussy.
Sucking pacifiers can also make the baby fall asleep easily and quickly. This is certainly very helpful for parents, especially when traveling far using aircraft. Baby pacifiers can reduce ear pain due to air pressure and make it calmer.
In addition, sucking pacifiers can also reduce the risk of occurrence Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and reduce the baby's bad habit of sucking fingers.
Also consider the disadvantages of baby pacifiers
In addition to the benefits already mentioned, it turns out the use of pacifiers in infants has several disadvantages. If you give your baby a pacifier too early, for example when he is still breastfeeding with breast milk, it can cause nipple confusion or confused nipples and also causes dependence on the pacifier.
In addition, there are studies that say that babies are frequent ngempeng turned out to suffer from recurrent ear infections more often than babies who did not use baby pacifiers.
Use dot for ngempeng in the long term it can also cause problems in the baby's teeth. This can result in jawbones (jawbone) pushed forward followed by tooth growth.
It is best not to let your baby slump if he is 2 years old. Before the age of 2 years, tooth growth can still be repaired and returned to normal on its own for 6 months to stop the pacifier.
So do babies need pacifiers?
The use of pacifiers in infants is still controversial due to differences of opinion between the pros and cons of using the pacifier.
On the one hand, pacifiers can calm babies but on the other hand pacifiers can also have adverse effects on the health of the baby later, especially if given for a long time. In addition, in terms of breastfeeding a baby, the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) says that breastfeeding a baby naturally is much better than using pacifiers.
If you have doubts about giving the baby a pacifier or not, you should discuss this with your pediatrician. Ask clearly what might happen when your child uses a pacifier, whether it really will affect the growth and development or not.
Again, each child has a different growth process, so of course the needs will vary.
