May 2011 Moms

For NON-paci users

DS just won't take one, I never liked the idea of a paci to begin with but I did try since he was just days old, for those moments when he would freak out, or when he freaks out in the car. He "eats" his hands but it seems more of out play then to soothe himself. I tried different brands and nothing, he spits it out and makes the funniest faces lol. Is your LOs not using a paci at all? Did you not want to LO to use one or LO just won't take it?

Re: For NON-paci users

  • Our boys don't really use one. If they are overtired and full but still want to suck, I can sometimes rock them with a paci and they'll fall asleep. Noah has started sucking his thumb though and I don't mind it.
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  • DD has only taken a pacifier maybe 3 or 4 times ever. We have tried giving them to her (after she was about a month old), but she never took to them. She has found her hands, and more recently, her feet, and they seem to soothe her just fine Smile

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  • ds just wont use one or will take it if you have the finger in the middle of the soothie
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  • Both of my kids just refused them.  I'm not anti-paci.
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  • DD will sometimes take one if she is really sleepy but other than that she would rather just suck on her fingers. Like Iris, I am not anti-paci
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  • Both my girls wouldn't take them.  A refused rather angrily every time we tried, and K just kept spitting it out.  They both refused bottles too.
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  • I side eye my sister in law for using the paci as a plug (her words) so the baby has it in her mouth constantly. I've never been a fan of that.  But generally speaking I am not anti paci.  I didn't want to use one right away -- much like I didn't want to introduce a bottle right away.  DD just didn't like it.  She takes it briefly every once in a while but she seems perfectly fine without it, so I'm ok with that. 

    Sometimes at night when if she falls asleep nursing, I unlatch her and put the pacifier in her mouth and she continues to sleep that way.  It pops out in a couple minutes but she's fast asleep by then  :)

  • It's a very rare occasion if DD takes a pacifier. She just isn't that interested in it. She did start sucking her thumb a few weeks ago, which is a-o-k with me! Dh and I were both thumb suckers.
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  • I'm not anti-paci, and DS took one ok for settling him in the car or in his PnP when he was a couple of months old. He won't take one now, though, and I'm ok with that too. He gnaws on his hands a lot and seems ok with those, and he's only sucked his thumb twice, when it accidentally fell out of his fist. 
  • Will had a pacifier when he was in the hospital, but when we took him home we weaned him off of it because he'd freak out every time it fell out of his mouth. I've tried a few times to get him to take it so my boob could have a break, but he mostly just chews on it and gives me this "are you joking?" look.

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    DD will sometimes take one if she is really sleepy but other than that she would rather just suck on her fingers. Like Iris, I am not anti-paci

    This exactly.  

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  • i didnt want him to use one but one night i was desperate so i gave it to him. it worked for all of 5 minutes. he never uses it now, he just isnt into it. 

  • My daughter refuses any kind of paci....and I really did try to get her to take one too!
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