Nipple confusion- is this a thing?

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My DH wants to try our 3 week old little girl with a dummy to settle her. I'm currently breastfeeding and last time was scared to death by a health visitor who said no to a dummy until 12 weeks as baby won't feed properly due to nipple confusion

Is this a real thing or just some waffle you get told to scare you to avoid the dummy to keep breastfeeding

Thanks

Hi I am breastfeeding my 4 week old and have just recently started giving her a dummy sometimes she takes it other time she’s doesnt . But it hasn’t had any ill effect on feeding.

So if you want you could give it a try but you might have to try different dummies

I found that baby sucked differently after using a bottle or dummy so it can interfere with the latch.

Why does your DH think she needs a dummy? It's better for your supply to just feed on demand, especially in these early days. There's a growth spurt around 3-4 weeks where baby will cluster feed. It's a big exhausting but will help to establish your supply.

9 out of 10 mums I know breastfed, and 8 out of those 9 babies had a dummy from the day they were born! None of them had nipple confusion.
Dummies make life much easier.

Breast fed my 3 kids and they also had a dummy from birth. Never had a problem! She might not like the dummy anyway but worth a try. Atb x

My ds is 12 weeks, he's had a dummy from about a week old. He has no trouble latching on to breastfeed and there's no confusion as far as I can tell.

My Ds2 was exclusively breastfed and had a dummy from day 2. No nipped confusion. Was fed the same bollocks with ds1 who consequently refused to entertain a dummy or bottle!
Both were very sucky babies and liked to comfort suck. Ds1 was latched on almost constantly! It was exhausting. Ds2 got into a good routine and breastfed very efficiently. Then popped dummy in, off to sleep. He would spit it out when he wanted an extra feed. He also naturally stopped using it at 10months old although breastfed until 15months.
Midwife also clocked it on the 3day checkup and scaremongering me that he had lost 6percent birthweight and would need additional help. I gave him loads of extra feeds and he had regained his birthweight overnight! A lot of conflicting advice and guilt to wade through from all sorts when you have a baby.