Big Binky Brouhaha; A new study that says pacifiers help prevent crib death reignites an old debate. Parents and doctors take sides.

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 31-OCT-05

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Byline: Claudia Kalb (With Ben Whitford)

It's hard to hate baby pictures, especially your own, but Janna Bosshardt could never stand the ones that showed her as a toddler with a pacifier in her mouth. There she is, 3-1/2 years old, a piece of plastic where the adorable smile should be. So when Bosshardt, now 33, started having her own children, she vowed to avoid the Binkys. "I didn't want to get any of my kids hooked," she says. Her first two, Zach and Brad, did fine without them. Then came Cale, an Olympic-level screamer. "A pacifier was the only thing...

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