Give in to a Dummy???

Hannah suckled her fingers, Briona was on a dummy from 3mos, Krystiana neither so far lol... This is my personal opinion on it. Fingers are better than dummies cause you don't have to pick them up off the floor, go find it in the middle of the night when they cry cause they lost it, and you don't have to wean them off it later. But if a baby won't take to her fingers either, then I think it's best to do nought unless she's particularly grizzly or refluxy.

I personally wouldn't get a dummy before 6 weeks, most of the early weeks are growth spurts and getting the milk up, and even though it's so constant and draining (literally lol) and exhausting, it does pass in the first couple of months and your milk does it's job and settles down. The feeds get further apart too. But most of the early week suckling is to boost your milk so using a dummy would hinder that.

That's just my personal opinion, on a personal note I would just say that didn't you have some difficulties early on with getting your milk in? And with Gabriella putting on weight? So that would make me inclined to delay the dummy thing all the more.

I guess you really need to know for sure, is she suckling just for the sake of it (comfort) or is she trying to fill up?

I put Ella on a dummy as i rathered a dummy than a thumb.
Best thing i could have done and shes weaning herself off it now aswell she has it mainly at night now She sleeps soooo well with one

I'm a dummy fan too, MW and plunket suggested it to me and we haven't looked back.

PS for information to Paeds swear by them as godsends as they help prevent reflux, coz when babies suck they produce more salvia which goes into the gut and helps nuetralise the acid in the tum.

So if anyone says anything just say your paed highly recommends them!

Jess - yep everyone I know who has had a reflux baby swears by them!

We tried to get Joshua to take one, but he didn't want a bar of it - he then started sucking his thumb at about 6 weeks old, and now only sucks his thumb when very tired (like this week, getting used to the end of daylight saving). I don't see a problem with them at all, and you can always take it off her before she turns 3 months, which is apparently when habits start to form.

thankyou def given me options...luckily she doesnt have reflux and is not a spiller at all....so dont need it for that reason...

but even mum who is anti dummies told me last night she is buying a dummy for her!!! LMAO....

oh well an excuse to go to botany tonight me thinks...and she is fooling me today by pretending to sleep pretty damn well too!!! little blighter...

I was so anti dummy, but gave in to it on about the second week,  my boy was just a sucky baby and he loved it, still does, but only at sleep time, i did find it helped when he was tiny as he didnt really want to feed he just wanted to suck

we were anti-dummies until Caitlin was *FINALLY* diagnosed with colic. My MW said that the sucking helps to strengthen the oesophegous (sp?) and helps them to bring up wind better.

Caitlin was a big feeder in the beginning too (when I was BFing her) and also loved to comfort suckle and would fall asleep at the breast. I'm not sure what you are doing but if you are BFing I would be very careful of nipple confusion, she might forget which nipple has the food in. This is just something I was told a while ago and so I stuck with Avent for everything, but you can't do that when BFing.

Caitlin had a stage of thumb sucking, which I personally didn't like as you can't take that away from them and I know someone who still sucks his thumb and he's 25!

It's not often I have to go to her at night to put her dummy in as she usually finds it herself.

Like with most things it's personal choice and if it gives you a couple of hours of much needed sleep than can it really be a bad thing?

i was so anti dummies, but i think the important thing to remember is.. people say they interfere with breastfeeding - but that is ONLY if they are used INSTEAD of feeding baby, because your milk supply isn't stimulated and maintained. If you KNOW that baby has had a huge huge great feed, and they are just unsettled and sucking for comfort.. then go for it, use them, everyone needs some sanity and sleep!, better to have a baby that goes off to sleep and sleeps well - they are gonna wake up so much nicer later on and feed well again cos they aren't ratty and overtired.   

I thought Paris's one interfered with her feeding - really, we had problems with feeding from the start, it was nothing to do with the dummy, but being stubborn, i didn't use one with Ayja, and sometimes i wish i had, by that time she was 10 months old and it was just silly to even think of it.