Did you give your baby a dummy? If so at what age?

[Firsttimemummy19]

Just those 2 questions please..

Yes. Lifesavers. Only for sleep. No speech delay or teeth problems. From one week to 3.1 years and one week to 20 months. Got rid of both at the same time, with no tears from either.

DD1 was very sucky, she got one at about a week old. The break my boobs got let me continue to BF for another 6 weeks or so.

They both went to sleep instantly with them. Very handy when you have your children close together.

Even my mum has changed her thinking on the dummy .

Yes! Gave from birth until 2/3. Used for sleep only. Recommended by lullaby trust to reduce he risk of SIDS

My two are adults. I hate dummies with a passion and whilst I can tolerate seeing them in a baby of six months or under I have to look away if I see a child that is walking and has one plunged in their mouth..

Oh the dramatics 🙄

I actually think babies look cute with a dummy I thier mouth.

Dummies are a godsend for colicky babies or getting them to relax and go to sleep.

My only issue with dummy’s is the hygiene. Dummies get dropped on the floor etc and it’s sonetimes difficult when out and about to was them. Or when they fall from their mouths and they pick them back up full of hair and dirt.

Yes. From when they were very small. And thank goodness they did. Had no trouble getting rid of them and no speech or teeth problems.

No. I can't stand them. Sorry, they work for a lot of people, but I wasnt going to give one to mine.
I had 3 DC and none of them had one.
Dd1 sucked her fingers to self soothe, but stopped that around age 1.
Dirty ugly things, and prolonged use can affect speech development. It's well evidenced.
Gobstoppers!

Three days old; she loved it.

She gave it up herself at 6 months old when we bought her a bigger one and she didn't like it. Now at 18 months, she doesn't suck her fingers or thumb, which I am delighted about as I was a thumb sucker as a child myself and used to hide to do it as an 8 year old.

o. I can't stand them. Sorry, they work for a lot of people, but I wasnt going to give one to mine.
I had 3 DC and none of them had one.
Dd1 sucked her fingers to self soothe, but stopped that around age 1.
Dirty ugly things, and prolonged use can affect speech development. It's well evidenced.
Gobstoppers!

Hmm a sterilised dummy or a sucking on fingers.. wonder what's dirtier

3 days for DC1. DC2 wouldn't take a dummy and DC3 couldn't take a dummy (neonate, tube fed and didn't have the energy to suck bless her. Part of her early physio involved a soother but it never happened)

No I didn't because i hate them. No child of mine will ever have one.

That’s something similar to what I thought until I developed a blood blister on my nipple.

My DS didn't. I wouldn't have minded him having one but they just woke him up whenever they fell out so they were worse than going without.

I didn't give DD one because I didn't think she'd be interested. She was never a comfort sucker - even with the breast, it was get in, get a full tummy, don't hang about.

I've nothing at all against them though. I'd probably recommend them to other mums because of the SIDS research. I used to get (silently) annoyed with a couple of the mums at one of our local playgroups because they'd give their three year-old DDs dummies to shut them up at the very first hint of a whimper. The little girls had good speech and understanding so there didn't seem to be any reason to leap straight to the dummy without trying to reassure them in other ways first. Also, the little boys in the class were always left free to run riot, so there seemed to be a bit of a "boys are wee monkeys, girls should be kept quiet with their dummy and their blankie" thing going on.

My issue certainly wasn't with the dummy itself though - I'd have been just as irritated by any other method of fobbing off a small child without checking why they were fretful.