{"id":33641,"date":"2013-05-07T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/suck-on-this.html"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:09:16","slug":"suck-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/suck-on-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Suck on this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">As best as I recall (it was a decade or more ago and I was very tired then), we occasionally used our mouths to &quot;clean&quot; Kay&#39;s pacifier. (We also used water and the occasional dishwashing, too.) \u00a0We never thought raising her in a sterile environment was either possible or healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Like all things, moderation seems the appropriate rule. But doses of parental spit might be a good thing for your baby.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/05\/04\/health\/04well_pacifier\/04well_pacifier-superJumbo.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/06\/why-dirty-pacifiers-may-be-your-childs-friend\/?src=me&#038;ref=general'>Sucking Your Child&#8217;s Pacifier Clean May Have Benefits<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Children whose parents had no problems sucking their pacifiers to clean them had fewer allergies, lower rates of eczema and fewer signs of asthma than those whose parents typically rinsed or boiled th&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/iL2oJLpWgfB' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As best as I recall (it was a decade or more ago and I was very tired then), we occasionally used our mouths to &quot;clean&quot; Kay&#39;s pacifier. (We also used water and the occasional dishwashing, too.) \u00a0We never thought raising her in a sterile environment was either possible or healthy. Like all things, moderation seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/suck-on-this.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suck on this!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33670,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions\/33670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}