Has anyone successfully introduced a comforter?

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My 11 month old ds has never been interested in teddies or fluffies of any description. I was reading No cry solution about introducing a comforter as a way to help them self-settle, by putting it between yourself and baby when breastfeeding. When I do he pulls it out and flings it away though!

I've seen lots of babies with comfies and wonder whether babies develop attachments to them themselves or whether parents have encouraged it? Has anyone with a particularly uncuddly baby managed to introduce one?

DS has never had a comforter apart from me & his thumb

We NCSS'd and dd (9m) did just as your ds did and chucked it away - only the boob would do!

However, her keyworker at nursery spotted she seemed to want something to cuddle when settling for naps sans boob, and offered her (sequentially over a few days) a muslin, a vest from dd's spare-clothes basket and, eventually, her own sweatshirt.
The sweatshirt seemed to work best so she now has a cotton jersey (ie sweatshirty) blanket as a comforter at nursery, and we have one at home as well that she's getting increasingly more attached to, to the extent that for the last few nights if she's woken up unsettled (ie not actually hungry) she's preferred a cuddle with the blanket to the boob...

[fingers crossed]

We got given a lovely grey elephant (mothercare) when ds was 3mo - gradually introduced more, and when he went into his cot, this was the animal that we encouraged (good size, not too fluffy, can't get tangled up) and bought another one. Now when Nellie can't be found, she can sometimes be found playing hide and seek in the cupboard (that he can't reach) in his bedroom - and very occasionally Nellie's sister comes for a visit - she sometimes even stays a day or two before going back home (!!!)

You can definitely influence - but you also have to go with the flow too! Many a nap time ds won't go to sleep unless he has a book under one arm and Nellie under the other...