What made you introduce a dummy?

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As the title says... what made you feel a dummy was necessary?

This is not a judgement post! Or a dummy bashing thread! I'm just trying to suss with my PFB if they need one or not.. yes I'm overthinking it but I always thought 'I will avoid them if I can as saves me removing it later down the line / one less thing to make sure I've got and have sterilised etc'

Does PFB need one / will it help with sleep etc?

Reflux. Sucking seemed to soothe him. But he found his thumb in the first few weeks, ditched the dummy and is still sucking his thumb 10 yrs later. I wish he'd stuck to the dummy, it would have been in the bin years ago. Can't chop his thumb off though

I've just this evening given one to DD2 who is 9 days old. She's a really sucky baby in the evenings, but she's been taking in too much milk with all the sucking and then doing big pukes that wake her up and then she needs to feed again as her tummy is empty, so I tried her with the dummy after a feed and she was asleep in about 30 seconds. And I am all about maximising sleep!

Genuinely think the dummy hand-wringing is so silly. Babies need to suck - they are generally happier with a dummy. Removing it was not a big deal for either of my dc. Did it a 2.5yrs, lots of song and dance about how grown up they were, 2 or 3 days or slightly disturbed sleep and that was it. Maybe I'm a cold-hearted bitch, but I didn't find it a big deal.