help with dummy

i want to hear from mums with kids who refused duummy and how they got there kids on it..........cant afford to purchase another as i have 2 already.........both my kids refused which is fine but mia has been in hospital and since then would happily walk around attached to me for comfort.........and this is a problem as i have to lay down to feed her and i have a ultra active boy........we have tried the dummy but she tends to push it out......she looks like she doesnt know how to suck it in to leave it in there.........but she does want it back in her mouth if you hold it there.........if this makes sence

yeah i tried that first as i saw people doing it i just assumed thats what you did for dummy..............she stops sucking.............obviously i dont have a normal baby :-)

Isabella gags and spits her's out a lot, I sort of wiggle it in her mouth gently and that coaxes her to suck on it,

But some kids just wont take a dummy no matter what you try.

I really had to persevere with my son but we got him there. He would suck it only as long i would hold it in his mouth. So i'd hold it in with one finger while doing other things and eventually (weeks) he just figured it out. I know the advise i was given was to lightly pull it away which is supposed to make them suck it back in but that didn't work for us.

Worth the effort by the way! He has 80% of his sleeps without it but some days he is just attached to the thing, which is better than attached to me all day. And is also great for babysitters - they have an easy solution if he wakes while you are out.