pacifier tip

I had the problem of my son not wanting a dummy and prefered my finger, I tried 4 different shaped dummies over a 10 week period before someone in a shopping centre saw him attached to my finger and suggested a 'Happy Baby' brand dummy. The cheepest one in the supermarket. Since then he has loved it and my finger is mine again.

Dummies are the best inventiom and worth their weight in gold I recon.

My daughter would never take a dummy, and I did try occasionally just to see. I was pleased she didn't and I have to say that I cannot see that she needed one - she fed on demand, which was sometimes as often as every couple of hours, and I felt like I was her pacifier. A friend then commented in reply that I was the real thing and a pacifier is the replacement. So, I guess what I mean is that she sucked as often as she needed, but on me. My son, however, was a completely different story. He would become miserable for no apparent reason and I found that if I put a finger in his mouth, he would become calm again. I then tried a dummy and he took to it straight away. They were absolutely vital to us getting through the first few months, and seemed the only thing that would make him happy if there was nothing else wrong. I mentioned to another friend that I didn't really want a baby sucking on a dummy but she predicted that he would grow out of it around age six months, as her son and another friend's son did. And she was exactly right. As he aged, he became less and less dependent until he rejected it completely around the six month mark. He now has no interest in it and no need for it, being able to self-comfort.

My first genuinely did not want to suck as often as my second - I felt like I was constantly being chewed by my son and the dummy saved both my sanity and my nipples... I was also told that boys tend to be more "sucky" than girls. I am relieved that my lad grew out of his dummy so that I did not need to take it from him at some point. However, I have also read that if a baby gets used to a dummy at night, they ought to keep it for their first year as an added precaution against SIDS. Good article and not something I have heard recommended before.

I read this earlier, I just forgot to comment on it.. My daughter hates her pacifier, and I dont know why. She would rather chew on her hands. I tired giving her a pacifier the other day and she started to cry, mind you she was happy before that.

I always thought that too, if she dont want it then thats good. Then I won't have to try and take it off of her when she's older. But after I read this, I was shocked(in a good way)

Thanks for the advice!!!