LilSisShelly

With an infant who is already nursing, and who takes a bottle of breast milk well too, would there be a problem at this point introducing a paci? We are thinking it might help her to sleep.

alexis

I have never known a person to give one to an infant that size for helping to go to sleep unless you plan to watch over and make sure its taken away once the little one is asleep. Neither of my kids used them.

mom2only1

My daughter used one, we introduced it around 5 weeks. She never took a bottle, but she loved her pacifier, and it REALLY helped her sleep. She had a very strong suck reflex.

janelle

My daughter would never have a paci. When she was a baby we would try to give her one to calm her while heating her bottle, but to no avail! It just wasn't happening! She would spit it out everytime because she wanted nothing but her bottle that had formula in it. I look back now and am glad she didn't because it's just one less thing to have to break her from.

LoveMaGirl

Why would you want to remove a paci from a sleeping infant? They are designed with a face plate that is large enough that swallowing and choking should not be a risk.

We introduced one at just six days old in our exclusively nursing infant and it was a heaven send. She was very needy, had a strong suck reflex. This gave me a break, and hence reduce the pain I was feeling

bunbun

I agree, if the pacifier can be swallowed its the wrong size. They have many things that allow them to be safe for any age.

I would never use one though as I don't like the idea of using a replacement for comfort and don't want the struggle of weaing from one. I would rather set a sleep schedule and find a way to make it work without a pacifier.

Seattle_mom

My older child took one, from about 4 weeks old. She was also a needy sucker, but would spit up from my over-production of milk. So we introduced the paci. Took it away (the paci faerie came at 2.5 and no problems).

My son did not take one, despite my trying EVERY ONE that is on the market, he chose mama as his pacifier.

Wanting2bMommy

My nephew sucks his thumb. At the hospital they gave him a paci and he loved it, but when it got lost, my sister bought him a new one and he hated it. I guess he just wanted the one from the hospital. But now he is almost 2 and he is still a thumb sucker. He was sucking his thumb on the ultrasound, she said, and even managed to find it shortly after birth. She is worried about his teeth, but otherwise it certainly seems to comfort him.

I read somewhere that allowing a sleeping child to have a binky (or a thumb I would suppose) reduces the chance of SIDS. Has anybody else heard this?

katie

All three of my babies took a pacifier right in the hospital. I really don't know what I would have done with out one. They did all wean themselves within a couple of months, except our youngest, who I finally broke when she was two years old! I didn't think I would ever break her from it.

Seattle_mom

I have read about the negative correlation between pacifier use and SIDS (meaning, it reduces the rates of SIDS). That was certainly something I was glad to read.

We took our daughter's away at 2.5 because her teeth were not straight. Luckily, they later straightened.