How can I get my breastfed baby to take a dummy?

[buffythebarbieslayer]

Dc3 is 5 weeks and breastfed.

She's a Velcro baby and very sucky. I feel a dummy now and then will help but she refuses it.

Ive just bought the ones shaped more like a nipple but any tips to help her take it?

It may be she's just working on your milk supply and so needs to feed what feels like constantly, this is normal and does greatly improve soon if you persevere (easier said than done!)

My DD wasn't interested in a dummy as a little baby but took one when she was quite a bit older in a moment of sleep deprived silliness on my part - can't get rid of dam thing now! my son took one straight away.

Try offering it to her at the end of a feed when she's sucking/sleepy and protests if nipple comes out of her mouth because she's almost asleep, I found this worked.

Have you tried the mam ones? I think you are just going to have to keep on trying with different dummies.

My daughter was like this. Absolutely nothing could persuade her to take a dummy, although there were odd occasions when she would. I don't totally buy into the whole business of a baby trying to build your supply, although I know it's more likely at the start. My daughter wanted to suck constantly until she was five months and I had absolutely no problems with supply. She's still a very sucky child now and she's nearly 2, except it's bottles bearing the brunt rather than my nipples! I stopped bf at 7.5 months.

I found the nipple shaped dummies were the least likely to get sucked, but old fashioned cherry ones were more popular on the few occasions she accepted one. Good alternative was to let her suck on my little finger. It was often enough to get her off to sleep.

My 3 breastfed babies all got on well with the MAM dummies (flattened sort of teat). I would simply pop in hold for a few seconds and then gently pull it away, which seems to encourage them to suck it back in. They soon seemed to get the hang of it. All my 3 were v v sucky. DD1 cried non stop from birth (except when feeding) until at about 2 weeks DH went and bought some dummies, it was a revelation! With the other two we had dummies on hand from birth. None of mine stuck with the dummies though, by about 3 or 4 months when they had the necessary motor skills they all swapped to their thumbs which then remained almost permanently rammed in their mouths for the next 5 yrs..... (and counting with DS who is the most persistent). At least you can take dummies away!!

Yes I had this problem and my dd would only accept cherry style dummy xxx

My first two wouldn't take a dummy at all; it just fell out of their mouths.

With my third I stroked her cheek and put the dummy in her mouth when she started rooting (she was about 4 months).

Hope this helps and congratulations x

I introduced a dummy at 4 weeks and it took a while for DS to accept it. He's 10 weeks now and sometimes he will take it no problems but other times he point blank refuses - he clamps his mouth shut and no matter how much tempting we do he just refuses it. He really only takes it if he's really tired.

He will not take the cherry/bulbous type dummies but is ok with the flattened end teats.

Neither of my sucky breastfed babies ever took a dummy despite my best attempts with multiple types.