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Whether you call them dummies, pacifiers, soothers or binkies, the artificial teats are said to cause a child’s teeth to be misaligned, disrupt breastfeeding and impede speech development. Parents who surf the internet for their pros and cons mainly run across cons. Disapproval of babies’ dummies has come into vogue somewhat in recent years, says parenting advice author Nora Imlau, based in Germany. But need mums and dads really worry if their little one likes to suck on a dummy? After all, generations of parents before them have used dummies to pacify their young children. “Newborns, and olde…

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