Fox News' Dr. Manny
took the time to point out that babies who suck pacifiers have a 50% higher rate of ear infection. He recommended taking away the pacifiers or keeping them cleaner. The one thing he did not mention was breastfeeding. Not once. I find that odd. I wonder how the group of non-pacifier babies satisfies their urge to suck. Could it be that some of them are breastfeeding instead? And could those babies be getting secretory IgA antibodies in their mother's milk along with macrophages that engulf and attack germs? It saddens me that he missed this opportunity to promote breastfeeding, only lamenting the dirtiness of the pacifiers, but failing to mention the "scrubbing bubbles" in mother's milk.
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