What's the best dummy?

[HH171222]

Hello to whoever is reading and hope you are doing well😊 I need to buy some new dummies as baby is 6 months next month and current one is getting battered. Plus I will be buying loads soon to put around him so when he learns to put dummy back in himself he has lots around. He currently uses a tommee tippee but I'm wondering if there are better dummies that don't come out of the mouth easily. I've done some searching and know there are some with different textures to stop it falling but would rather ask here where people can share there experience.

Also I really dislike any dummies that have gaps where you can see baby's lips it just looks weird plus don't think he enjoys the skin exposed. He's not fussy though! Thank you

The best dummy is no dummy. None of mine had a dummy. I don't know why people put them in their babies' mouths. I know my view won't be popular but it's what I believe. In a couple of years time you will be back saying I can't get my child to give up their dummy.

DD2 uses the NUK ones. They do glow in the dark ones - I think they help her find them in the night! They're the Day/Night ones or something.

And to answer PP, I put them in her mouth because she was a very sucky baby and my nipples were too painful to allow it as I got a breast abscess, so in the interests of carrying on being able to feed her, she got a dummy to suck instead of my nipples. She only uses it overnight to fall asleep and sleeps like an absolute dream so I'm not meddling now. I'll deal with taking them away when she's older! For now I am enjoying her 12 hours of unbroken sleep DD1 never took to one.

Also dummies are supposed to come out of the mouth when they fall asleep and relax and aren't actively sucking any more so that's fine. It's normal for them to suck the dummy and it come out when they go into a deep sleep.

@caringcarer would you like a medal for not giving your baby a dummy? FIRSTLY he was using my boob as a dummy at 2 weeks and i didnt mind until one night started choking on the excess milk. SECONDLY dummy can be taken away very easily which is way better than letting them suck there thumbs which causes more damage mentally and physically to teeth. THIRDLY because of the first reason my midwife advised me to do so. FOURTHLY it reduces risk of SIDS, helps teething .. I can go on and on.. as a parent how can you be so judgemental. Actually how can you be such an awful parent to not let your baby be comforted by a dummy.. how could you take a risk with there lives knowing they are actually safer with the dummy. That doesnt sit right with me at all. Don't comment in posts where you're comment is absolutely useless. I'm not even going to bother replying as theres no need to entertain this.

We use the Tommee Tippee anytime, never had any issues with them and can get some fun designs. They also do a night time range in the same shape where the ring glows in the dark, a life saver for middle of the night!

I'll take a month of discomfort getting rid of it for the 13 months of delightful sleep we've had since introducing it at about 8 weeks. She's already given up having one during the day with no fuss whatsoever.

How helpful of you 🙄

I used to be anti-dummy until I actually had a baby. They have been a life saver for us and really help my DD get to sleep. We use the MAM ones as we also use MAM bottles and thought they might be a similar shape. They also have glow in the dark ones.

You didn't want to help prevent SIDS then? Strange choice.

It's funny because your MN name is so often at odds with your posting. Maybe a name change would be good.

OP my DD likes the Mam air ones.

@Hugasauras thankyouu ill look into those :) and I know right. We are the ones who will deal with it when the time comes not that person! Also I know it will fall out when mouth is relaxed but I've realised sometimes it comes out whilst he's sucking on it. Or maybe he needs the bigger size dummy?

Don't have any dummy brand recommendations but just posting in support of giving baby a dummy. Previous poster can piss off, it's not going in her baby's mouth.
Dummies are amazing, vive la dummy!

Just take it away before they get old enough to look silly with it.

Actually I have an accessory recommendation. Dummy clip. They learn to fumble along to the dummy at the end really quickly. Lifesaver!

And I was weirdly anti-dummy before kids and can't really remember why now! DD1 never took one but we didn't really try much. Maybe we should have as we had a much more awkward few months with her sleep where she had to be variously soothed/fed/rocked to sleep and woke more frequently needing to be soothed, whereas DD2 just goes into her cot, puts her dummy in, rubs her comforter on her face, and that's her. If she wakes in the night she just finds a dummy again and goes back to sleep.

It makes me feel slightly better about her starting nursery, knowing that she will have a familiar comfort thing in her dummy (and comforter) in a strange place. I'm hoping it will help settle her at nap times.

@SorryForTheRant oh I didn't know Tommy do glow in the dark ones. Is there a big difference in the 0 to 6 months and 6 months plus? Do you know I know there will be a size difference but just wondering if it can be delayed for a few months. And I know right why would I sacrifice my sleep now when I can worry about it later.

My LO takes the NUK space ones- they're fab! The problem we are currently having is trying to move up to then next size. He won't take the next size up in any brand but I'm worried about him still having the smaller ones. 😬

The MAM ones are good. I am very pro dummy as it has worked beautifully for us (21 month old still has it for sleep), but if you're using it when not sleeping I would start weaning that off now. It is detrimental to their communication development if they are using it too much when awake. We found it quite easy to stop all use in the day around 6 months. Think it would have been a nightmare to reduce it if we'd left it to a year.

Can definitely be delayed, we have some of the 6-18 ones but to be honest they end up mixed in with the 0-6 and she just gets whatever is to hand.

They have to be the ones with the ring though, BEWARE the ultra-light version. They are the ones with the gap you mention and the clear one makes her look like Hannibal Lecter 😂

O do pipe down.
I am team dummy. My DD loved hers, was obsessed, and it was an absolute godsend when it came to sleep! But she only ever had it in her cot or the car, and didn't blink when we got rid of them just before her 3rd birthday. Teeth totally fine, no speech issues.
I fail to see a downside here.

No. They’re grim

Always one 🙄

@WineIsMyCarb thank you.. thats what I said. Even if I didn't want to give it I still would so I can sleep better at night knowing they are at least risk of SIDS. I was abit iffy at first buy my midwife said give it and explained to me the benefits. She also mentioned before she became a midwife she lost her daughter to SIDS as she didn't know about dummy being associated with reducing SIDS and tells everyone she can now. And I have always put dummy on a baby clip for past few months it's so easy for me aswell to find plus it doesn't drop on the floor. Thank you for you're support again. It's hard as it is being a mother last thing u need are these self entitled people.

The mam ones. My first child didn't use one but second child did and it was so good for her and us. She's got great teeth too. Have it up easily at 1 years old.

I agree. they're grim and unnecessary

I’ve always loved mam. The perfect is amazing but super expensive. The night are great, the air is a bit unusual as you can see their lips which is strange but great for air circulation!
two of my dc were in nicu and we were actually told to give them dummies by the paediatric team. It decreases the risk of sids as pp mentioned. Maybe it’s an older poster who doesn’t know current advice? (No whisky in bottles to help sleep either! FYI)

@Theos @ExcusesExcuses omg you guys give the best advice. Did I ask you if I should start giving the dummy? Did I ask a yes or no question. No I didn't. Stop posting useless shit. I actually judge whoever doesn't give a dummy. Unless the baby doesn't take one at all you are saving there lives and helping them. Get a life please