To not know why some people are anti dummies?

[TaliZorah]

Had a couple of comments about using them. I get everyone has different opinions but I can't see a reason to be against them? At least the bf vs ff argument has advantages and disadvantages to either whereas this seems to have no issues?

Something I've been thinking about after a few "MY child didn't need a dummy" (do you want a medal..?)

Yes it is disputed. The only concrete evidence is the antibodies in colostrum.

A happy mum = a happy child. a mum being made miserable by her feeding choice will not be good for a child at all

Keep telling yourself that

I'm happy with my choices as you are with yours. I couldn't give a flying fuck about your kids.

It's true you know, formula is known to lack the vital nutrient SMuG which is exclusively found in the breastmilk of the types of mothers who take to the internet to tell other mothers they don't have their babies' best interests at heart.

You're not happy ispi that's why you feel the need to preach and try to belittle other people.

You keep telling yourself that you're so superior, you're really, really not.

Okay ispy you pretend you're a perfect parent the rest of us plebs can only dream of.

ispyfispi The evidence of dummies reducing effectiveness and duration of breastfeeding is weak. I read an article in the NCT magazine which summarised the research (mainly done in Mexico, so I presume different attitudes to dummy use). The summary was really quite shrill, stating that dummies would DOOM your breastfeeding. I then went and read the original research which showed no such thing - dummy use resulted in something like a difference of two weeks in breastfeeding g duration at a year....hardly legions of babies doomed to FF by dummies. But the NCT has an adgenda too.

For all those saying that mothers should be a human pacifier - would you have cared to pop round and explain to my 18m DD why her mother couldn't do anything except remain on the sofa with DS glued to a boob?

I don't care if any other child has a dummy but dummies are artificial nipples after all and I just put mine to the boob for comfort.

Mrsmugoo, that isn't always possible.

No you should only have your babies best interests at heart, sod your other children.

I can't think of any reason why I couldn't have the baby attached to my boob in the car driving my son to his own activities.

I think using dummies is fairly cultural, I grew up somewhere (old fashioned and rural) where people didn't use them and so I didn't use them. TBH, (and to show smug parenting can work both ways) I remember a 'friend' coming round and DD2 (who was a very easy baby who could be put down for a nap awake and she'd happily drift off to sleep. Freaky child, she still falls asleep very easily even with her little brother having a tantrum in the same room.) was crying and wouldn't settle and was clearly very upset and this 'friend' gave me a lecture about how I should use a dummy to get her to settle and how I was a snob to not use one. Whereas even if I had used a dummy normally it was a situation where presumably it wouldn't have worked anyway because she wasn't settling as normal.

I don't judge people who do use them (Aren't they recommended for SIDS?) so would like to same in return. Less of the lentil weaving insults please.