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		rayiner on June 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes > Toddlers cry, that's the normal thing. Right, but toddlers also normally nurse to comfort themselves. If you're not breastfeeding (or if you're like me and you're the night-time parent but have no breasts) then a bink can be pretty clutch in terms of getting the kid to sleep so you can go to work in the morning.

gbog on June 4, 2013 [–]

Why, I don't mind your kid or any other using pacifier. I mind a bit the "pacifier by default" implied by its presence in the US baby box.

Also, if you can get a kid to control emotions early, it is all the better, and pacifier may postpone this a bit.

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