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How did you combine breastfeeding and dummy?

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SecondhandTable · 13/01/2022 10:10

If you breastfeed but your baby also had a dummy, how did you combine them to aid your baby's sleep? My DS is 3m old and although he's my second child, I feel clueless with his nighttime sleep as it's do different to what DD's was like - she was bottle fed by now. DS sleeps roughly 10-8 with a feed before bed and then at least two breastfeeds in the middle, but can be as many as 5. He usually feeds for between 10 and 20 mins and he falls asleep feeding. I then put him back in his next to me, 9/10 times he'd transfer fine, the odd occasion he'd stirr he'd go back off with the dummy. However the last few nights he has woke every time I've put him in his bed so I've had to use the dummy every time. I'm just wondering what other people do and how do you know when to start offering dummy first instead of a feed?

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Fizzl · 13/01/2022 10:15

I breastfeed and use a dummy. What I tend to do is offer the dummy first if she wakes and it's fallen out her mouth. I'll see if she settles with her dummy and a quick pat and shh. If she's hungry she won't go back off to sleep until she's been fed. If not the dummy usually settles her back to sleep. I know roughly what time she normally feeds so if it's quite a way off that time I assume she just needs resettling but she will let me know if she's hungry

NW2021 · 16/01/2022 20:59

Breast feeding and dummy and pretty much the same as @Fizzl above. I put the dummy in first and sometimes it takes a few times to put back in but normally settles but if after a few minutes she’s not settling I’ll feed. I know now when she normal wakes for fed as well.

I was just putting in the boob every time she woke but realised that she was just using it to settle herself so stopped and used the dummy

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