A Park By Any Other Name

I could not understand why Australians suddenly thought it was a good idea to have your baby sleep with a dummy. It even seemed mildly perverted to me, but hey, who am I to judge.

Parents who give their sleeping babies dummies during their first year of life cut the risk of cot death by more than 90 per cent.

The findings suggest dummies provide a much bigger protective effect than previously thought. However, dummies remain controversial.

Having read the article, I suppose the British and Australians are just as mystified why we would call a dummy a pacifier.