Dummies and Swaddling...

[Minchin]

thanks hope and sorry for hijacking thread pudds!!

 

[Pudds86]

I am glad to read so many varying opinions and practices. I feel more confident in trying to swaddle now and going without a dummy as we wanted to... if it doesnt work it doesnt work and I may have to cave in on some of the things I didnt want to do but good to know its not off the table! xx

 

[Laura_C]

Grace loved to be swaddled for the first couple of weeks and then she settled fine without. I too was well avaunt using a dummy but gave in when she was a week old, she settled easier with it. She liked to comort suck though and my poor boobs couldn't take anymore!! Once she got to around 3 months she just rejected it and never wanted it again - he hasn't had a dummy one day since then! I had stopped giving it to her to settle her to sleep, she found her hands and used to suck her fingers - she prefered this. She grew out of this soon after xx

 

[*Hope*]

i would like to wean belle off of it soon, as i know it will be tough the longer i leave it. she loves it so much though!!

 

[frances2009]

I swaddled my baby boy (now 11 weeks) for about the first month, it was a god-send!! He loved it! Just made sure not over dressed underneath and room not too hot. Had to stop about 6 weeks as started to fight his way out of it so is now in a sleeping bag.

I don't use dummies and don't plan to. Am sure babies have slept for generations without dummies with no problems so I don't see I need to use one. I make sure my little one doesn't overheat and as he is in a cot right next to my bed I don't worry too much about cot death. He's happy without a dummy.

Just do what feels right to you.

 

[titch]

i would like to wean belle off of it soon, as i know it will be tough the longer i leave it. she loves it so much though!!

I tried and he went about 2 weeks without, not hes teething he has it all the bloomin time Im just trying to distract him and give it as alast resort.

 

[titch]

Am sure babies have slept for generations without dummies with no problems so I don't see I need to use one.

I agree but when you have a baby with real bad colic, its either the dummy or cart mummy off to the looney bin!!!

 

[lanny]

well all 3 of mine have had a dummy and dolly still has a 2 terrible I know. Herbie is such a good baby and never crys so I did think should I give him it but he LOVES it think thats why he's so happy lol but every baby is different. and as soon as he is swaddled his eyes close lol

 

[titch]

^^ exactly, every baby really is different, I dont think you can make decisions about these things until theyre born and then just go with the flow.

 

[frances2009]

Ha ha yes have definitely had moments when close to the loony bin..... I just meant not to worry too much about only using dummies to prevent cot death.... am sure babies will be ok sleeping without a dummy. This advice is only recent isn't it? Their advice seems to change all the time, when I talk to my Mum/MIL etc amazing how different they did things back then!

 

[Zazu]

I was really against dummies, but zach had colic and it really helped. Now though, he won't have it and has turned into a thumb sucker (I'd rather him have the dummy, at least I can take a dummy off him!). My mum is over the moon though, she really hated that I gave him a dummy!

 

[karenandbump]

Hey hon, H had a dummy - I didn't want him to tbh but he was such a sucky baby and it helped him calm down and fall asleep. Never woke up when it fell out.

Swaddling wise, H hated it when I tried to do it so I didn't. He loved baby sleeping bags tho - great thing for babies I think!!!

x x x