Baby dummy

Do they? Interesting! As someone who has spent the week in an nhs special baby care unit with my newborn, they offer dummies 🤷🏻‍♀️ or ask if you have one and these guys are super hot on everything that’s deemed good/bad etc. Ps. I’m a breast feeding mamma🤱

Ah good to know, I saw this on the nhs website about dummies xx

In my experience (2 children so not extensive personal experience, but also feedback from friends etc) baby being unsettled at night is really common but a phase that passes. Both of mine went through it from about week 2-4 where baby was really unsettled and the nights felt so long, neither my partner nor I got much sleep and we both felt we’d never have a good night again haha. But it massively eased up around week 4. That’s not to say it’s plain sailing from there, baby goes through more unsettled periods but I found that week 3 was the peak really and anything afterwards was a bit easier/shorter. Others may have had different experiences though, I’d be really interested to hear from others whether they found the same or different! We didn’t give our first a dummy, and don’t plan to with our second. So I can’t really answer that aspect of your question, but I just wanted to comment to say it does get better!!

We introduced a dummy at about 10 days, the midwife said it was fine, and just to watch that we don’t miss feeding cues x

I gave my baby a dummy at 2 weeks, she will only take it in the car atm but it's a start. We just keep offering when it's obvious shes using me as a dummy and sometimes she takes It for a little.bit sometimes she doesn't, perseverance is key. It hasn't caused any problems with latching which I know is their biggest concern for introducing them early, if anything it's made her latch so much better as she wasn't opening her mouth wide enough but the dummy has helped her to use those muscles better.

We introduced ours on day 2, purely because he wouldn’t settle at night and this helped. He isnt overly interested in it now. I’m breast feeding and it hasn’t affected latch. We took it away for a few days when he dropped birth weight as midwife advised but he then went back above birth weight within 2 days so reintroduced it and it’s not caused any issues. We have the nano Bebe ones, I would suggest getting ‘breastfeeding friendly’ ones x

We have used them but sparingly, just when she is distressed and nothing else has calmed her. I find that if she has just had the dummy she struggles to latch but if i leave it 10 minutes she forgets the difference and is fine!

I stayed in hospital for a week after birth and had no intention of using dummies but my baby needed comfort due to lots of medical tests ect. Anyway her doctor simply said some babies are dummy babies and some are not, so if you feel your baby will benefit, go for it