Giving a dummy at 4.5 months for the first time

[greeneone12]

Hi All

My DD has never had a dummy and today has been very whiney. I tried a dummy and she is happily sucking on it! As she is not taking the bottle it has occured to me that maybe if I get her used to sucking on a dummy she might then find it easier to suck on a bottle.

Then I think she has come this far without one so why introduce it now....

What do you reckon?

S

If feeding is established (at 4.5 months it will be) then you wont have any probs with that. Don't stress about it just enjoy the peace and comfort you've offered dd.

We tried a dummy in desperation but dd refused to take it - many times we wish she had!

Nothing wrong with them IMO! If it makes baby happy and Mum happy, then go for it.

Taking a dummy is no guarantee they will take a bottle - or carry on taking a dummy - though. My DD had a dummy from birth after getting one in SCBU but has now pretty much rejected them at 14 weeks and switched to thumb sucking. She's also being fussy about taking a bottle having had one before.

Agreed! Anything which helps, in my opinion!

We introduced a dummy at 4 months, I think, and it was a life saver. DS is EBF and it just gave me a bit of a break, and he really liked the comfort.

At nearly 8 months he has it occasionally at night but is already growing out of it. He has never had a bottle until a week ago, when we threw in an 11pm ff as he was waking up soooo much and we needed to break that habit and get him down to one or two feeds a night. Don't know if it was because it was new and a novelty and it was dark, but he took it fine!

I think all babies will take a bottle eventually, but it can sometimes take a bit of perseverance to find the right combination? But I'm no expert at all!!

x

SharkSkin Thing what bottle was it please? Thanks all for the replies x

Like the other posters we gave a dummy to our BF son, but not until 7 months! I thought it would give him something else to suck rather than just use me for comfort - it was the first night he slept through!

I hate dummies with a passion and was adamant that I wouldn't give him one, but in the end although I felt slightly bad I'd caved, it improved things for the family so was a good thing in the end.

Interesting....so rather than feed he went to sleep with dummy? Were you then not replacing it everytime it fell out?

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