dummy help

Neither of my babies have taken a dummy, I tried but they wouldn't have a bar of it. Feeding to sleep is our current method with our little one, and we are comfortable with that - so if you think it will be useful, keep giving her the dummy... if not, don't

We have a dummy loving baby here that we have managed to keep not addicted to it. It's great to use when you need it and personally i'd rather he had a dummy to sleep than fed to sleep, because anyone can do the dummy, whereas if you're bf then it's always you.

I just find being the only one who can do something too much for me. I think stopping those night feeds and having others be able to be involved was why bf worked so well for us, otherwise i would have flipped out i reckon.

You can use the dummy but not have your child addicted to it, but we had an easy baby who loved to sleep anyway.

I agree that it's up to the individual. My two had dummies from 5 days old until I took them away at 1 year. I decided from the start that I didn't want them to have a dummy past one year as it would just get harder to take away the longer we left it. So I guess you just have to keep in mind that a dummy is kind of like an addiction for babies so if you give it to them you probably want some kind of goal in mind for when you will take it away. Personally if you've come this far without one I wouldn't introduce it.

But I can't talk as I'm up for usually anything and everything that makes life easier lol. So hey, if it gives you a goodnights sleep then go for it just keep in mind it can be a very tricky habit to break later on.

If it was me, I would go with the dummy. Tom took a dummy and still has it for night time sleeps. I'd love him not to have it but it has been invaluable for settling him anywhere. James WONT take a dummy and its a real pain. He is so hard to settle as like you I dont like CIO (although we are having to do a little of that right now as he is no longer falling asleep on the boob...gets to the end and still awake!!).

I would recommend always trying without it first and then using it when you need to. That's how we managed to keep him used to sleeping without it regularly. Most of the time he is fine but if you need it can use it. Some times we will also rock him sleep in our arms just to mix things up a bit.

Erynn loved the Dummy from the start but Violette took a while to warm to it. We have decided to let the girls have the Dummy all the time they are breast feeding. We will probably take them away at one. I know that we will probably be in for a few hard yards when we do but its gotta be better than all the hard yards we would have done to date with out the Dummy. They are great for the middle of the night when they just wake up a little, we pop the dummy in and generally they go back to sleep unless they really are hungry.

I thought about talking the dummies away as they do seem to have become rather addicted but Violette still has reflux so yeah, it does help with keeping the milk down.

My boy didn't have a dummy but I did get him in to the habbit of 'sucking to sleep' by giving him a bottle of milk to go to bed with. Kind of bit us in the butt at about 18 months of age when he was still waking in the night and I had to give him a bottle to go back to sleep. We managed to break him of it but stopping the bed time bottle. Took about a week and half, lots of tears but worth it in the long run.

Don't suppose that helps much though =op