are you going to let your DC have a pacifier?

stacymartz

If so when will you start giving it to them, if not at all how come. Just trying to get different perspectives.

TIA

pivey

Only when they ask for it. J.k. yes, probably...after BFing is established...

MrsGMRMartin

Yes, I guess at the hospital. Never really thought about when.

Miss.Modular

yes, after bf'ing is down with no problems.....but NOT when they are over a year no way no how

alicatt79

Once he's got BFing down.  I heard somewhere you shouldn't give a baby a paci or a bottle until they are good at BFing b/c they're easier to suck on than a real nipple.

merr818

No it seems like a pain to get them to stop. If they never start then they won't ever miss it.

stacymartz

I have heard also that it's not a good idea to let them take it to bed, due to the fact that you will constantly be going in to get it when it falls out of their mouth and they start crying?? Sounds like a pain.......

pixiedustie

I really don't like pacifers, probably because my nephew had one until he was 4 and his shirt was constantly soaked from the drooling it caused.  I do think babies need to suck so once bfing is established I will offer one, hopefully I will be able to take it away at 1 year...

sobe4625

we gave dd a paci on her 1 month bday-we waited 4 weeks so we could establish a bf'ing schedule.

I will do the same with the next one!

Jim&Jaime

I have no problem giving one, or taking it away.  I think my brothers had theirs taken when them were 2 or 3, and it wasn't a big deal at all.  They were just told that was the way it was, and moved on. 

mrskadams

Oh yeah, I will be doing it again.  I refuse to let baby cry when she simply needs soothing.  Last time I started using them pretty early.  Also I remember when there were 3 of them in my son's bed so he could find them in the middle of the night.  Also, I'm one of those terrible mothers who let her child use them until he was 2, but it was primarily for sleeping.  he rarely had it in the middle of the day after he was about 15 months.

MikeysNattie

yuppers... I also read that pacifier use reduces the risk of SIDS (somewhere... can't recall)

lily225

We will do the same as we did with dd: not offer one unless baby REALLY seems to just want to suck.

With DD, she went a month without a "need" for it. Then one day she cried non-stop for over an hour. NOTHING worked to calm her down so I offered her a nuk and she stopped immediately. She had it until she was 1 1/2. 

Reason I didn't want to offer it was because I didn't want to have to go through the weaning off process down the line.  In the end, ittook her 2-3 days to get over it when we did take it away - not bad at all.

I have friends whose babies DIDN'T want to take and they wished they would have - it's just nice in some situations to have an automatic soother on hand, you know?

A friend did say that having a nuk can actually lower the risk of SIDS. Never looked into it, but maybe you could. 

lily225

I should also say that I wanted to establish BFing before she got one. I felt like she was good at 1 month.

lily225

To answer your second question, yes, there was a period of about a month (maybe less) where we were going in during the night to "re-nuk" her. That lasted until she could figure out how to put it back in herself. We just kept a few sprinkled around her in the crib so she could always find one.

SuperSuz

We plan on it.  Probably 3-4 weeks, once bf-ing is established.

divakat

Yes.  We did with dd right around 4 weeks because it really helped get her to sleep.  As of about 6 mos. old, she only was allowed to have it for sleeping.  Now at 18 mos. she uses it to fall asleep still.  We will probably take it away at about 2 1/2 years old. Mainly because we are expecting another baby right before her 2nd b-day, and we don't want to make her have too many traumatic events all at once:( With this baby, I'll probably give it to him starting at 4 weeks as well, but again, only for sleep purposes if possible.  If you do use one, make sure you introduce it before they are 6 wks old or they are likely not to accept it.  I know many mothers who didn't and they wished they did, because they ended up having to nurse their babies to sleep, or the baby gained a lot of extra weight because they would use the bottle to soothe.

HarrietNJMommy

No, not if they don't need it. I don't like the habit. DD#1 never took one, and DD#2 had one only for naps and bed until she turned 5 months old, and then I took it away.

IF #3 takes one, I'll get rid of it at 6 months old.....I'm just not a paci mom. I don't like to carry a bunch of them around, I don't like to clean them, etc.?

Eric's True LoVe

I also read that pacifier use reduces the risk of SIDS. But after bf is established.

hj_1235

I don't know what I'd do in public without one. When your DC starts screaming...sometimes its the only thing that will help. Especially in the very beginning. When they are super young sucking is one of the only things that will soothe them.

I believe that sucking on a paci is one of the things that helped DD learn to breastfeed.