mia1181
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So DD never really took the pacifier! She was breastfed and a great nurser right from the start so I was never worried about nipple confusion. I do sleep-training though, so I was more worried about getting her to self-sooth as soon as possible. I tried so hard to get her to accept a pacifier. It wasn't so much that she used me as a pacifier, but I just felt like it would make sleep training so much easier if she had some way to help sooth herself. I tried loveys and that sort of thing too, she just wasn't into any of it. It wasn't the way I thought it, would be, but it all worked out in the end. We were able to successfully sleep train her and she was sleeping through the night by 4 months-ish. In the end it wasn't traumatic and as a bonus, we never had to take a pacifier away. We were also lucky that she never sucked her thumb either.
Now that DS is almost here I am kinda thinking about not giving him one. Is that crazy? Would it be cruel to not even try? Does anyone ever do that? I was thinking there are probably some people that take breastfeeding very seriously that never offer one, but I'm not like that. I know tons of kiddos who breastfeed great and also take a paci. I also think about way back when they didn't have pacifiers. Surely babies and their parents survived without them.
But then I know we will sleep train again and pacifiers are a great way to ease baby into soothing himself. And I think thumb-sucking is a much more difficult behavior to stop.
What are your thoughts? Am I crazy for thinking we might be able to skip a pacifier again? I honestly don't know anyone who never offered their kid a pacifier.
Now that DS is almost here I am kinda thinking about not giving him one. Is that crazy? Would it be cruel to not even try? Does anyone ever do that? I was thinking there are probably some people that take breastfeeding very seriously that never offer one, but I'm not like that. I know tons of kiddos who breastfeed great and also take a paci. I also think about way back when they didn't have pacifiers. Surely babies and their parents survived without them.
But then I know we will sleep train again and pacifiers are a great way to ease baby into soothing himself. And I think thumb-sucking is a much more difficult behavior to stop.
What are your thoughts? Am I crazy for thinking we might be able to skip a pacifier again? I honestly don't know anyone who never offered their kid a pacifier.