When did you start using a pacifier?

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My 2 week old has really bad colic and only settles on the boob so ends up eating so much she vomits...or she screams. So want to use a dummy she settles with my husbands pinky in her mouth but this isn’t ideal as you can always wash your hands out!

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girrrl day 1 both babies.

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The nurses at the hospital gave our daughter a pacifier at about 2 hours old. They are proven to reduce the risk of SIDS, so I don’t know why anyone avoids them. We used the nipple shaped ones (philips avent soothies), and It never causes any nipple confusion for our daughter. She was easily able to go between breast and bottle and pacifier. We only used them at naptime and bedtime and it’s never been an issue for us. She still falls asleep with one now, but I’m personally not in any rush to wean her from it, as I see no reason to; it provides her comfort during a vulnerable moment every evening and that’s about it

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My son started using the soothie pacifier at 2 days old for my sanity lol he wanted to nurse all night long and my nipples were bleeding so we gave it to him for bed and he’s been great ever since

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My son refused to take one. Hospital tried day 1 and just like I saw another girl mention, the nurse also said it reduces the chances of sids cause they are always sucking. I think you have to worry more about when to take it away not so much start it 😊

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From day one we've been using them.

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I waiting until 6 weeks as I was struggling with breastfeeding and wanted to make sure I got it all sortes etc in case of any issues

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At a week😊 I wanted him to have the hang of breastfeeding. no shame he didn’t take it at first but I didn’t always want to be a human pacifier.

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The nurses in the hospital gave one to my son after he was circumsized to help calm him down.  We had some issues the day after with getting him to latch doe breastfeeding so we stopped it.  At around 1 week there was a night where he was just so inconsolable that I gave in and gave it to him and it helped...

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Even with breast feeding I gave a pacifier from birth. My breastfed babies rejected them after a week but my formula fed baby used hers up to a year

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We started using a paci in the hospital and my son latches fine still.

When did you start using a pacifier?

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