Do you give your baby pacifier??

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MamaC

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Hi everyone,
Do you guys give your baby pacifier??If so when do you start giving it??since my baby is already putting her hands in her mouth(1 month old) and i really don't want her to suck her fingers,especially later when she starts to crawl,I think pacifier is more hygenic.thx alot.
MamaC:yeah2
 
I didn't as I personally don't like them, although I did buy one just in case! I did try to give it to my son after a bad night but he kept pushing it out and got more upset when I tried to put in back in his mouth. So after that i didn't bother. Yes he sucked his fingers early and only does it occasionally now, but I think all babies do that regardless of wether they have a pacifier or not. And I wouldn't worry about the hygeine thing as your bub will probably drop the pacifier on the floor and put it back in her mouth.
 
With my first child we were advised to give him a pacifier as he was born at 28 weeks and did not have the sucking reflex so the pacifier helped him with that. He loved it and he was three before we weaned him off it.

My daughter is now 14 weeks old and I have one in the house but she does not like it, she too sucks her hands quite frequently but will not touch the pacifier.

I am not against them at all and if she did like it I would not have any problems with giving it to her.
 
I didn't want to use one either but bought one just in case. Never needed it which I was pleased about (but every baby is different). My concern with them is that they often act as a sleep prop that is then difficult to get rid of later. We did try it once on the plane but he was not interested.

Even if you do use one for sleep times I am sure that your baby will still put fingers into their mouth at some point - especially when teething. It is not such a bad thing really - that is how they build up their immunity.
 
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i gave after 6 weeks of almost round the clock feeding - i am so glad i gave and pacifier is the best nanny for my son :) i remove it gradually when he turned 1. i offered it to him a few weeks later to try whether he remembers it.. no. he did not know how to suck it at all and he thrown milk bottle on the floor too. so slightly after 1, he is off from pacifier and bottle. No regret of giving, instead, thank the person who invented pacifier! I took a lot of 'pacifier sucking pictures of him. he looked so cute. awwww :D
 
My little girl, now 3 months old, also loves to put her fist in her month, and is now starting to find her fingers haha. My husband prefers giving her the pacifier vs letting her suck her fingers cos we can take the pacifier away, but not her fingers!!

Haven't done that yet though. Only take the pacifier with us when we go out, in case there is a screaming fit, have not needed to use it yet :)

Did our first overseas trip last week, she was peaceful throughout the flight. They also allowed us to carry water with us.
 
my first HATED the pacifier and only ever took it once.

my second LOVED IT! to the point that if we forgot it, we had to buy another one! she used it ONLY for sleeping. when the babies are really little, they do pop them out of the mouth frequently, but for us, it didn't mean that she didn't want it. it merely meant that she didn't yet know how to suck it properly.

we bought the first one for her when she was 5 days old. i spent an entire night trying to feed her when we returned from the hospital and my boobs were SO sore, i sent hubby out as soon as the shops openned. she had one from that day until she turned 21 months. she used it until one day she just said 'NO MUMMY! DON'T WANT!' and threw it on the floor! that was the end of that. we didn't have to worry about weaning her off of it etc. she did it herself. kind of like she is doing toilet training herself.
 
I wasn`t keen to use a pacifier but bought a couple anyway, just in case. At around 4-6 weeks at a few `wit`s end` moments, I gave it to my baby, but it was rejected. Probably since he didn`t drink from a bottle and wasn`t used to a rubber nipple.
He found his hands a few weeks later, my life became a lot easier, as he was able to sooth himself. I have seen my friends constantly having to pop soothers back into their baby`s mouth, wash them, sterilize them and buy them out in public if one is lost, and I was glad not to have to deal with that. And personally, the sight of an older baby with a pacifier in its mouth is just not endearing to me.
I feel the opposite about the finger and thumb sucking and think it`s cute, though I know a lot of people (particularly the Chinese here, don`t know why) are opposed to it. Maybe my son will grow out of it, and maybe he won`t and I`ll deal with that if it comes. But for now, I support his thumbsucking and glad it`s not a pacifier instead.
 
A friend of a friend used to leave about 5 dummies lying around the cot so that when the baby lost one or threw it out of the cot, there would be another one there. She said it was so stressful lying in bed listening and counting how many had been thrown out of the cot so that she knew when she heard all 5 hit the floor, then she'd have to get out of bed and get her!!
 
Bought a few, but didn't get much (proper) use out of them. I think I introduced them too late (~2 weeks)? My first was always very quiet, but the second will play with the pacifier by yanking it with his mouth or chewing it furiously. Both only fell asleep at the breast, so I had to get up plenty of times anyway!
 
My daughter never took it until she was about 2-3 months old, then she loved it! She still loves it at 13 months old, but I don't let her have it unless she's sleeping (or in rare situations, if she's sick or if she hurt herself). I too don't like seeing older kids with them. And I have to admit, starbucks2 - I put two dummies in the cot and listen to hear if they both have fallen (or been thrown!) out of the cot.

I'd like to take the dummy away but I don't think that now is the best time. I'd like to try to somehow stop the 3am feed first! (that's the only time she's still breastfeeding) and I figure let's just take it one step at a time! But I definitely want to take it away by age 2!!
 
My daughter had it when she was about 2 months old. She had natal teeth and sucking her fingers/thumbs cause bleeding. When she was about 1.5 years old we went on a holiday, and I forgot to bring it. She was soooo happy that she forgot about it completely. She didnt ask for it when we came back. That's how we got rid of it :) However, having pacifier actually bad for teeth. Both my nephew's front teeth werent straight because of it. Didnt happen to my daughter as she had teeth from the day she was born.
 
We bought a pacifier just to have one. I was really reluctant to give it to our son, but my husband tried to give it to him once or twice when he was a few weeks old and when he was crying really loudly. But he never really liked it so we don't use it. He does put his hands in his mouth, but when he first started doing that, we would take his hand out of his mouth and tell him not to do it. He still occasionally puts his hands in his mouth, but we leave it most of the time now as he only does it once in awhile. Frankly, I don't think that you can stop them from putting their hands in their mouth. Also, as they get older, they will put EVERYTHING they can get there hands on in their mouth as my 8 month old son is doing now.
 
I read some articles saying that it's not appropriate to give a pacifier for breastfeeding babies until after 6-8 weeks. Is that right?

Also, when is it appropriate to give a baby a pacifier? I have a 2 month old who is usually very calm during the day but sometimes gets fussy in the evenings. When he is fussy, I have to feed him every 1/2 hour to an hour and towards the end, he doesn't really feed but just wants to suck on my breast to go to sleep. He will also usually cry himself to sleep. I am thinking of giving him a pacifier for those times - but how do I know if he's not actually still hungry?
 
i gave my daughter a pacifier when she was 4 days old. she just would not stop sucking. for her it was a comfort thing. she was comfortable, but I was not. i could not handle being her 24 hr/day pacifier. it was the BEST thing i ever did when she was a tiny baby.

she had absolutely no problems whatsoever with breastfeeding. she went from the bottom 2% to 50% in the first 8 weeks.
 
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