Our one-month old often gets one we think is over-stimulated in the evenings. We have found that a handy way to calm him down is to our pinkie into his mouth. He has a strong desire to suck and seems ready to suck a pinkie any time. We figured that if we could substitute a dummie for a finger we'd get a bit more peace and quiet.
The trouble is that he seems to have issues with working out what to do with it when we put one in his mouth. He opens it quite wide as if he's feeding from a breast or a bottle rather than closing his lips as he does when sucking on a finger. Inevitably the dummie pops out almost immediately. Usually he get upset after a couple of attempts and we give up on it and produce a finger.
We have been persisting in trying as we thought that he just needs to learn what to do with it. Does anyone have any tips on this? Is our assumption that he can learn to use it correct or is it that he simply doesn't like it? How is it that he can learn to suck a finger so easily, without confusing the technique with that for breastfeeding (he's fine feeder) but not be able to deal with a dummie?
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Learn to use dummie
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iamroddo · 12/12/2010 10:51
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