How to persuade baby to take a dummy

[Daphnedown]

How the hell can I convince my 3 month old to take a dummy? He loves to suck (on the breast) and I'm convinced that a dummy would help him sleep somewhere other than on me. But whenever I offer it to him, he makes a face and out it pops! He doesn't seem to know how to keep it in his mouth.

I've tried different brands but no luck so far.

Any tips?

bringme don't be offended about the "don't have a clue" comment, I doubt she was saying it like that. Otherwise, SS probably would have stepped in months ago when you took your baby for check ups and HV/GP noticed your baby was neglected. That hasn't happened.
That comment has probably been said to half of all parents at some point, especially when they have a very young one or are a first time parent. I agree it's patronising to hear it though. But it's probably similar to your comments about hating dummies, so you can see where people are coming from. Patronising or offensive to others if they want to take it that way.
That's why I was saying earlier about literally any choice you make will be judged by some. Whatever you do for your child, somebody will agree and somebody else will disagree and somebody else will judge. Personally, I try not to judge for that reason, even if it's something I wouldn't do for my own, because I know somebody else's kid isn't my kid and what works for mine won't work with theirs.
Dummies aren't bad. You can't use one to trick your baby into not knowing it's hungry or tired or needs a change, because it will just carry on crying whether there's a dummy in its mouth or not. It's literally just a comforter, it's not going to be able to replace feeding or changing, the baby won't have it!

Babies often have a need to comfort suck, which is as strong as the need to feed, sleep, be held etc. If they don't suck on a dummy they might be sucking on a bottle, breast, fingers and so on. My DS also likes to suck a muslin, but I don't let him because I worry about the suffocation risk.

So I'll persevere with the dummy and accept I might be on a hiding to nowhere

Old fashioned cherry latex dummies just to get them into the idea and the tapping thing worked for us

BringMeTea123 - I got the sex of your child wrong. I help hundreds of people on baby sleep issues, day in and day out. Forgive me for not carrying the sex of them all in my mind when replying across different threads. I do my best.

I replied to your other thread. So frankly, it would be nice if you could your unhelpful comments off this one.

OP asked for support for dummy use - it's being given.

You asked for support for your night waking issue, that support is being given (by me!) on your own thread.

Generally supportive place this. Usually

bringme you sound really judgmental and quite horrible. Also, the use of kisses at the end of posts on here really is not needed.

As somebody who has finally won the battle of getting my child to give up the dummy I would say don't give your baby one, but otherwise there is some good advice on here.

Don't listen to sanctimonious parenting advice from an idiot who thinks dummies can be orthopaedic not to mention her misuse of apostrophes

My DS comfort sucks a lot and was always sucking his finger, and having family members who have dental issues due to prolonged thumb sucking we decided to try a dummy, took ages to find one he'd take but he seems to really like the Nuk Genious silicone orthodontic ones