my baby won't hold his pacifier!

meg_2006 · February 2012

LO likes his pacifier to calm him down. When he sucks on his fists he gets super frustrated because he's still learning to control his hands and they keep flying out of his mouth. So I let him gnaw on them a little bit till he gets frustrated (because eventually, I'd rather have him learning to suck on his fist or fingers so I don't have to deal with the pacifier), then give him his pacifier and he calms down right away. Problem is, I can't get him to hold it in himself. He can only keep it in about 10-15 seconds.

Sometimes he just gets distracted by something and stops sucking, so it pops out of his mouth. Sometimes he simply can't keep it in. Either way, he gets mad when it pops out of his mouth. He still wants it, because he's making sucking motions with his mouth and takes it very eagerly when I put it back in.

I feel at this point he should be able to keep it in himself if he's going to. Are there some babies that just can't hold it in themselves? Am I doomed to holding it in for him all the time?

OurJellybean · February 2012

Try a wabbanub? My lo has never taken a pacifier. I was so against them then changed my tune once I had lo but karma bit me on the butt with that one lol. I wish she would!! Good luck

Lhand11 · February 2012

I think it is just something that comes with time. My DS does the same thing. However, he also reaches up and pulls it out then gets mad. Well then silly, don't pull it out!

textbookcase · February 2012

He's only a month old! Babies don't have the control to hold a pacifier in for awhile. It takes time for them to figure it out. I have to put dd's back in all the time.

Mustardseed2007 · February 2012

You need a wubanub. The best place to find them is on amazon.com. It's the most important buy we've made for baby.

authorofdreamz · February 2012

DD is just now starting to keep her pacifier in for long periods of time and she's 3 months old. I still have to put it back in a lot of times. She'd rather suck her thumb but I am trying to get her to use the paci instead. At one month she wouldn't take a paci for more than about 5sec.

xraychick07 · February 2012

I third the wubbanub! That thing is AMAZING!! She spits it out and BAM it's back in her mouth like magic! They are cute too and she loves to hold onto her little zebra's legs while she sucks her paci.

ftm1211 · February 2012

https://www.amazon.com/Playtex-Binky-Mother-Latex-Pacifiers/dp/B000PKTXR6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329869529&sr=8-2

These are the only ones ds likes and will keep in.

KansasFarmMomma · February 2012

textbookcase:
He's only a month old! Babies don't have the control to hold a pacifier in for awhile. It takes time for them to figure it out. I have to put dd's back in all the time.

This... I am still always having to stick it back in.

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · February 2012

DD had this issue and just tonight I bought a new kind of pacifier. We had the soothies and gumdrops but I think they were too heavy for her and it was too small to help her hold it in so it slipped out easily. I bought the other kind Avent makes and she loves it.

MesmrEwe · February 2012

It'll be a few months before your LO will have the muscle control to really hold onto anything consciously let alone pick up something and put it somewhere specifically!

Try a different shape of paci.. We use a nuk and it's easier for DS than the Soothie he started out with.

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