Introducing a dummy to a breastfed baby

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DS is two and a half weeks old, an enthusiastic feeder and gaining weight well. He often seems to overdo it a bit with the breastfeeding though and throw up afterwards - so I wonder if he sometimes sucks for comfort and takes more milk than he needs? For example, he'll sometimes feed for an hour taking both breasts, fall asleep for 10-15 mins, wake up and go back on the breast but then throw up after 5 minutes. He doesn't sleep a lot compared to what the books suggest a baby of his age needs, and often wakes up after 10-20 minutes of napping and needs either a nipple or finger to suck to get him back to sleep.

I wonder if a dummy would help him sleep longer/better - but understand guidelines suggest waiting til 6 weeks. If he's feeding well, and we haven't really had any problems with breastfeeding, is a dummy really likely to interfere?

I gave my ds a dummy at just under 2 weeks old, and he had given it up voluntarily by 2 months.

obviously it worked for me and was a lifesaver to behonest as I don't know how I would have coped with the early weeks without it. There is a risk of being stuck with it, but it's up to you whether you take that risk.

I'm not really that worried about being stuck with it, it's more the risk of nipple confusion etc.

my little girl was just like that, didn't sleep very much, sucked on me constantly. I waited until a month to give her a dummy, by which point I was absolutely desperate! at first she wasn't keen but soon got the hang of it. She was a little dummy addict for a while but now at 11 months she only has it for sleeping/napping/car journeys or sometimes in shops when she is bored out of her little skull while mummy tries on clothes

We gave DD a dummy at about 2 or 3 weeks and it didn't cause any problems with the bfing. We did it because when she had finished at the breast she would settle really happily if she had a finger to suck on. The only problem we had was getting her to take one, we tried a load of different varieties which she refused, but eventually she took the cherry-shaped ones. Like nubbins DS she gave it up when she was ready, in our case at about 8 months.

I gave DS a dummy quite early, probably about 2-3 weeks, and stopped it again about 3 months. I wouldn't say there was a problem with nipple confusion but I did find clamped down on me a bit more after he'd been on the dummy - I had to sort of remind him to open his jaw more. I got rid of it because of it.

I started offering my DD a dummy at around 3/4 weeks, as at that point she started to look to suck for comfort, and there were times when she would refuse the breast but quite happy suck on my little finger til she dropped off.

I got a bit tired of lying on one side with my arm poking through the bars of her crib so she could suck my finger, so dummy it was.

We never had an issue with dummy/BF confusion - you're happy that he's feeding well so I'd try it in your shoes

Thanks for all your replies :) I might give it a go and see how we get on.