Using a dummy for a bf baby?

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Ds is now 8 weeks old, he's has been a colicy refluxy baby but this has improved after a cmpi diagnosis. I am dairy, soy and egg free.
In the early evening ds takes a feed, he then will be awake for s few hours. This time would usually be spent with him showing all the signs he wanted to feed but then when I put him to the breast he takes a few sucks before pulling of, crying etc. I do have a fast let down so take him of for that before putting him back on.
This week in desperation I tried a dummy and he settled instantly, no fussiness, no crying for hours. Just lying on me or in his sidecar cot suckling and dozing.
I don't particularly like dummys and never used one for my first son. I'm worried that I will miss feeding cues, I do offer the breast every half hour or so when he's using the dummy but he doesn't want it. He does take a feed around 10,30 and then sleep until 3 ish.
Am I worrying unnecessarily? Is it possible just to use a dummy for fussy evenings?

If he wanted to feed he would spit the dummy out and cry til you fed him, don't worry!

That sounds a bit like my 6 week old DD. When she gets tired she gets really fussy, wants to be latched on for comfort but doesn't want the milk. She took a dummy for the first time yesterday and settled but wouldn't take it when she was hungry which put my fears of missing feeding cues to rest.

It sounds like it's working well for you I wouldn't worry.

My DS was the most sucky baby in the world. A dummy settled him instantly. I BF him for a year and he seemed ok on it! He was very colicky too and that sucking settled him.

I only used it in the car and for sleep times though. And only ever when he needed it. If he was settled, he didn't have it.

Don't worry about it. A dummy saved my sanity for my ebf baby (now 9 weeks). We were both against them until I spent the first 3 weeks barely being able to walk down the street without DS1 latching on. Now we use it mainly when we're out and about and to settle him to sleep. Works wonders. If he's hungry he doesn't take it though.

I also have forceful let down,so DD has never liked comfort feeding - dummy has been a god send! I offer breast first to rule out hunger then dummy if she refuses breast. When hungry she won't accept dummy.

Likewise! As I have a forceful letdown and an oversupply DS never really was able to comfort suck because he would always get milk! He loved his dummy at those times, but as pp have said would spit it out if he was actually hungry so don't worry. He's 6 months now and has started to self-wean off the dummy - only wanting it when he's very tired or teething.

sounds like I've nothing to worry about. I had him weighed today and hes stuck to the 91st centile
How often do you sterilise dummy's?

We use the mini Milton dummy carrier for when we're out and about. I have 4 and they just get chucked in the microwave steriliser with bottles etc.

We introduced a dummy for our BF DD at 8 weeks. It really helped to settle her and was amazing during those evenings!!