ABSTRACT
Sucking can be nutritive or non nutritive type. The current research focus was more on the non nutritive sucking habits of the children who were breast feed from birth. The current study was carried out to analyze the influence of thumb sucking and pacifier use on breastfeeding patterns in breast feed children. The result concluded that there was a relationship between the breastfeeding pattern and pacifier use where as it was not there in case of thumb sucking.
Key words: Breast Feeding, Thumb Sucking, Pacifier Use etc.