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My baby doesn't like them either. I just figured some babies just don't.

@Loren same here

We couldn’t get our little boy to take one until he was on bottles x

Persevere 😊 we had to hold it pressed up against their palate, not just in their mouth if that makes sense

Thank you everyone!! She is ebf but thinking of expressing/formula feeding so maybe she’ll have one when on bottles!x

Does she take it into her mouth then spit it out? Or just not take it at all? If not at all then make sure it's positioned just above her tongue and aim for the roof of her mouth. Mine does take them but sometimes if he's kicking off he's blocked his mouth with his tongue so I have to gently push past that and then he sucks once he realises what it is!

@Sally this is probably your problem. My ebf girl would never take a dummy or a bottle no matter what we tried. My ebf boy was born first and i introduced dummy and expressed right away and he was fine. So now with my third I’ve learned my lesson to get them used to it early xx

My boys the same he won’t take any brand we’ve tried. He’s mostly breastfed but he does have 2-3 bottles a day but think he realises there is no milk in the dummy he spits it out. I don’t want him to be reliant on one but when he’s super upset and stressed I think it would help soothe him but he’s having none of it

I breast feed until I can feel she’s fallen asleep and just using the boob for comfort. Then I make the switch to keep her asleep. I suck on the dummy first to get it slippery and slide it right in

Put the dummy in their mouth and tap on the middle of the dummy gently until they start sucking xx