Dummy for breastfed newborn?

[Lilliput]

My ds is 10 days old and feeding well though does not always settle very easily and a dummy with my dd always helped especially at night. But will giving him a dummy too early put him off feeding?

I agree that the "nipple confusion" thing is a load of tosh.
We gave a dummy to DS when he was 4 weeks old and he liked it but when we went on to bottles at 6 weeks he ditched the dummy as he knew he wasn't getting any milk from it.
With DD I breastfed her for 9.5 months and she had a dummy from 3 weeks. It had no detrimental affect on my milk or her feeding patterns.
The main thing to remember is to give the dummy AFTER feeds if you are sure they have had a good feed and are just comfort sucking. DD would feed and then want to suckle but get very upset as there was still milk coming and she didn't want it. As soon as I popped the dummy in she would look at me gratefully before closing her eyes and dozing off.
I never used the dummy to 'tide her over' between feeds, to be honest if she was hungry she would spit the dummy out and cry until she got her feed.
The downside of dummies is that in the first few months I had to get up quite a lot in the night to re-plug the dummy if she lost it but wasn't hungry. It wasn't until she was 9 months that she was able to find the dummy herself.
She now (13.5 months) goes to bed with no less than 3 dummies, one in her mouth and one in each hand ... she plays with them and swaps them around from her mouth to her hands .... and that is how she goes off to sleep! Quite sweet really!