Anyone just occasionally give baby pacifier?

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Baby is a month old. She has been fussy the last couple of days. I have heard lots of things about pacifiers being bad for teeth development or baby becoming addicted to them and hard to give up.
Does anyone just give their baby a pacifier only occasionally? Maybe not every day, but only when baby is extra fussy after all their needs are met or only in the car, etc? I’m thinking of trying this but I am afraid of the cons of pacifier use, but I’m thinking those problems probably come up if pacifier use is excessive. Ive been doing a lot of research on this, and my plan would be to try to give the pacifier up at 6 months when her need to suck isn’t so strong. 
Wondering others thoughts on this? Anyone else do this?

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We give our daughter a paci because it’s supposed to reduce the risk of sids and we’d rather have to break her if a paci than her finger.

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My daughter sucks on one and she is a year old, trust me when I say if they are determined to suck and go for the fingers it is a thousand times harder to break. Some kids need it some don’t. My son had a pacifier and I broke him of it too early. He switched to his fingers and let me tell you it is a battle I was not prepared for.

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You can try one but she may not even take it. The teeth thing isn’t a problem until way later on.

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I was hell bent on no paci and then I gave birth and quickly decided I’d give her one. It helped soothe her, gave my husband and I a break and I’ve heard it helps with SIDS. We stopped using it at almost 2. I stressed over the transition, but it wasn’t that bad. We snipped the tops off the pacis and she said they were “broken”. Then, after about 3 days of her refusing them, we said the “bubby fairy” was coming to collect them to fix them for little babies. That was that. Her teeth are absolutely fine. Now we’re expecting a baby next week and she’s seen the baby’s new pacis...she pays them no mind.

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We did this with both our boys and by 3 months we didn't need it anymore. We only gave it to them while we were in the middle of the fussy weeks and we only gave it to them when we tried everything else. Using a pacifier is a personal decision and I didn't really want to depend on it as soothing tool because I didn't want to have to deal with taking it away.

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We didnt give our daughter a pacifer for 3 months. When we did try she refused it. She refused until 6 months when she started accepting it. From that point to now we only give her paci when she is in her crib (naps and bedtime). She never wants her paci outside the crib and she even hands it to me when I go in her room to get her (shes 16 months this week). I like how it turned out for us. I dont worry about her teeth because she has her paci so little and we dont go through many because they never leave her room. Plus she never cares if she doesnt have it.

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Should start weaning from pacifiers between 6 and 10 months. You want them off of it by 12 months. It's perfectly fine to use though. It only does damage to teeth if you let them keep it at like 2 and 3 years old.

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My kids took pacifier since birth 🤷🏻‍♀️ I definitely wanted them to take it, makes things so easy for US. And it was super easy to take away anyways.

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My son wouldn’t take binkies at first but I really tired to get him to at least at night to reduce the risk of sids. He take them now to fall asleep or if he’s fussy during the day but he always spit them out.

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It's not bad when they are small.  They help reduce the risk of SIDS. We broke our child of it at 12 months. She was really good getting rid of them. 
We slowly started fading them away and by the time she turned a year old, she didn't mind.

Anyone just occasionally give baby pacifier?

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