was it successful?
2007-02-21 16:42:45 · 12 answers · asked by Boo Boo 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I didn't use one as a means of maintaining a routine with feeding, I used it as comfort. I tried to hold off using it with my first child, but ended up giving her one before we even left the hospital. Luckily, she was a champion breastfeeder and had no problems with nipple confusion (although I know this can be a problem for a lot of babies!)
I tried desperately to get my second child to take a pacifier but he simply won't take one. He now uses me as his human pacifier at 13 months of age. I often wish he would just take a pacifier instead of my nipple because I think it would help his sleep habits a little (he likes to sleep with my nipple in his mouth).
So I guess each child has their own battle: my daughter has to lose the Nuk pacifier and my son has to learn how to sleep without me to suck on!
2007-02-21 17:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by calliope_13731 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tryed right from the begining to get my kids to take a pacifier (they both were thumb suckers from the begining and figured a pacifier would be easier to wean her from). My first I didn't push too hard until 4 months old when she started on solids, I guess since she wasn't having the bottle so much she wanted more of the sucking and it helped alot, My second started taking a pacifier at about 2 months I was trying to keep her from nursing every 1/2 hour. Didn't work very well, I could only get her to take it to go to sleep which now is ok but when she was a little baby was a pain. just some babies like them and some don't.
2007-02-21 18:12:34 · answer #2 · answered by medleyc1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never used one for my kids. I personally don't see how it helps the child. Sure sucking is comforting but they don't miss what they don't have and they get the same comfort from a hug. I fail to see how it maintains a routine in any way, to give them a dummy. My kids had feeding routine and they were quiet happy babies without a dummy.
Some say dummies cause dental problems, others say they don't also . My experience is my older sister had a dummy, me and my younger brother didn't and she has very bad teeth. My kids also never used a dummy but my sisters did and her daughter has bad teeth, while my kids are perfect. I think they are bad for kids myself but you know whats best for your own child.
2007-02-21 16:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started using one at 6 weeks. Not to replace feeding but for comfort. He was using my nipples as a pacifier. I plan on taking it away by 6 months. My other child took one from birth and was weaned at 5 months.
2007-02-21 17:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since he was born... In fact I decided to use it because the pediatrician told me that the pacifier's use in babies who drink formula, prevents from SIDS. The pacifier now is OK, My baby is 2 months old, and sometimes.. he refuses it... He gets tired of it.. I think that every child is different... I think pacifier is OK in little babies.. and it will be easy to take it away.. instead the finger..or hand.. right?
2007-02-21 17:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by Brizia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did when my babies are new born. They drink too much and tummy get blotted. Who suffer.. The moms.. I gave them water sometimes and if it is really hungry, esp for boys. no choice.. milk and other solid food ( after they have weaned) is necessary.
Pacifcers may help. Disctraction like to play games, watching TV, talks also help them to forget for a while their temptation to eat. EQ guidance & parental particpation/modelling is very much into getting the kids into routine with feeding.
How I know, cos me mom of 2. 4 & 2 and they are very disclipned on a 3-hrly feed.
2007-02-21 18:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by reef1976 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used one on my colicky babies when they wanted one. It wasn't really a tool for creating or maintaining a feeding routine... but did help when they were starting to get hungry and needed something to keep them busy while I got ready to feed them. I think they're more of a security-giving tool than a "scheduling" tool.
Then again, I think babies know their own schedule, and parents can only try to nudge them in one direction or another when it comes to eating and sleeping times. When they change, though, we need to pay attention... clearly something's going on.. either they're ready for solids, or going through a growth spurt, or teething... that schedule, as bothersome as it can be at times, is our best clue that something else may be going on.
2007-02-21 17:11:50 · answer #7 · answered by Amy S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We used a pacifier for about 5months and then quit using it
2007-02-21 16:45:43 · answer #8 · answered by CookFrNW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my baby girl has had her dummy from birth it works until u put something on the dummy then they wont take it unless it hassomething on it
2007-02-21 19:49:38 · answer #9 · answered by skye 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never used one- and glad my baby didn't.
2007-02-21 16:56:44 · answer #10 · answered by beverleekumar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋