Baby won't accept dummy- worth persevering??

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My DD is 5MO and won't hasn't accepted a dummy at all really except a few sucks early on. She loves to suck her sleeves, her thumbs and fingers (and mine!), and any toy that's roughly the right shape. But dummies are either chewed or spat out.

If at all possible I would LOVE her to have a dummy, and have tried her on a few standard brands without success.

Parents with experience of this, it worth persevering? Any tips or advice, or brands that you could recommend?

*because you think they will sleep better.
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There's your answer then. And I hardly think occasionally offering (and accepting her choice) and asking advice on a parenting forum counts as 'forcing' 🤔

And our nighttime routine is fine, it's a soothing aid for a very overtired baby at (non existent) nap times I'm looking for

Never bothered with them with any of mine, none of them wanted one. It’s more of a hassle further down the line when you try to take it away.

Winky face there Jessy you seem to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder 😂

I’ve just started giving my DS who is six months a dummy for the first time recently to help with weaning him off falling asleep on the boob and to start self settling. He has never taken one before, but it has been really helpful as he now knows that he can’t have the boob so will accept the dummy. He is napping for longer whilst using it.

I would keep offering it at every feed and they may eventually catch on. I’ve tried two types and he gladly accepted both.

Winky face there Jessy you seem to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder

No, not really. Just quite a low tolerance for rudeness, particularly of the ‘if people don’t say things that confirm my preconceptions, I’ll assume they’re liars’ variety.

As you say, wasn’t aimed at me. Rudeness nonetheless, and I have no issue pointing it out.

Get her a comfort blanket toy.

Dummies can have consequences on babies teeth when they begin to come through. Pointless really, the amount of parents we see that are struggling to wean their kids off of them but their poor teeth are suffering because of it.

A dummy worked for my DS, in fact I kind of had no choice in the matter, the nurses in SCBU gave him one, he was there for a week.
His dummy became a great source of comfort, if he hurt himself his dummy would instantly stop him crying. He went to bed with one, but spat it out as soon as he was asleep and we never had to get up to give it back to him.
Maybe we were lucky, but he gave it up really easily, we went on holiday and told him we had forgotten them, that was it he never had another dummy.
He is 16 now and never had any problems with his teeth, his cousins who both sucked their thumb have not been as lucky. They have both had to endure years of braces because they were both still sucking their thumbs at 12 years old.
I don't know what to suggest if they don't like it though, maybe try a few different brands.

@Myfoolishboatisleaning DD 7.5 months; tried dummy to help with silent reflux but she was never keen. Self settles very well at night in cot and nap times in buggy, BUT still wakes once or twice at night to shout/sing/play teddy Olympics/do stomach crunches so would be quite nice to just pop dummy in instead of rocking her to sleep in her cot at 4am after putting up with it for an hour or more 🤦🏽‍♀️

She also still only naps for three 30 minute slots a day. Who knows if a dummy might have helped that 🤔