if you breasfeed do you still use a paci?

gisellems · April 2010

or you dont use one? i'm hoping i can bf this time and this might be a stupid question but i didnt bf ds so i have no clue if you can give them a paci or not...

acppa · April 2010

I did with DS. I never noticed that it made a difference with him latching or anything. It came in handy when there were times he just wanted to suck.

Sept17.05Bride · April 2010

acppa:
I did with DS. I never noticed that it made a difference with him latching or anything. It came in handy when there were times he just wanted to suck.

Ditto.

ebb7 · April 2010

I did with DD. No issues with breastfeeding at all.

gisellems · April 2010

thanks for the replies ladies!!!!:D

kada626 · April 2010

I bf my 1st dd for 13 months, she used a paci & I had no problems at all. My 2nd dd never took a paci but I wish she did b/c she sucks her fingers now.

Mama Jan · April 2010

Both my kids are/were breastfed and both have had a paci since day 1.

Mrs.Hubbard · April 2010

I did with ds but dd won't take one.

shopgirl78 · April 2010

I BF both my sons. DS1 didn't take one but DS2 does and BF just fine. He is also great with the bottle.

dnagal · April 2010

It took a few weeks for DD to use a paci, but once she did I was soooo grateful for it! She would stay on the breast just to pacify, not really eating....for ever! The paci saved my poor nips!!

CD+AL · April 2010

With DS, I waited until he was about 4wks old to introduce the plug, as we called it, and then he gave it up on his own at about 5/6mos old. I would try to stick it in, and he'd spit it out. I just didn't force the issue, and we never looked back. I'll do the same thing with DD. Pacifiers are great tools, and we didn't have any trouble with BF'ing and using one with DS (obviously as he still BFs 2x/day).

mrs.aaguilar · April 2010

acppa:
I did with DS. I never noticed that it made a difference with him latching or anything. It came in handy when there were times he just wanted to suck.

ditto. but of course change ds to dd, lol!

pinksweetpea2 · April 2010

I offered around 6 weeks (after BF was fully established), but Lily wasn't interested, but she then started sucking her thumb around 3 months, so I think she was just waiting it out.

Lily loves pacis now- she steals from all the babies she knows. LOL

JulieandBen · April 2010

Yes. I used a pacifier from the beginning both time. I didn't introduce a bottle until almost a month though. I wasn't willing to hold out on a pacifier. Jett needed to sooth and I needed to sleep.

Pesky · April 2010

I did with both. Never made a real difference. I will say that when DD switched to the Nuk pacifiers, her latch and sucking changed a little but nothing to alter BFing success.

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