Regret dummy/pacifier use?

I did. I was really against using a paci at first but I caved fir those reasons. Now he uses it all the time. But I don’t regret it. It’s a soothing method for him and I don’t regret giving my baby a tool for calming himself

Nothing wrong with dummies (age-dependent). In the womb they had their little wrinkly thumbs to use as soothers. Dummies are a safe Earth-side alternative. Have a strategy in place for taking them away when they're at an age they don't need them anymore. My mum told us we would be exchanging them for gifts so had to give them to Santa, another one I've seen is involving them in doing a good deed and telling them they need to be donated to other little babies because they're a big girl/boy now. I'm a big fan of those and they worked. May take some kids a little longer and would try to soothe in other ways first if possible, but in a roundabout way, use the dummy. There's absolutely nothing wrong with needing them to help calm an inconsolable bab!

My baby started sucking her thumb or trying to by around 3 weeks and getting a bit frustrated when she couldn't. I introduced a dummy then and I think it's a great thing. She's nearly 6 months and doesn't need it all the time but when she's upset it does help her calm down and is a good soothing tool and as she gets older there's different ways to remove the dummy but at the end of the day if she'd got more attached to her thumb its a much harder habbit to to stop. At night if she wakes and gets a little upset but isn't hungry or needing changing if I out her dummy back in she goes back to sleep most times. I have no regrets and as she gets older we'll tackle removing it by making it exciting to go to other babies, going in a stuffed toy, sending to santa ect 🥰

i introduced a dummy at the hospital… i was so nervous being in a room with other new mums and she was born at 9pm so we didn’t get settled into the ward until around 11:30pm, so i did give her a dummy to soothe her a few hours after she was born 😅 she does love it now and it soothes her really well. it may be difficult to take away when she’s older but i just think that it’s better then her sucking her thumb… i can take away the dummy eventually, i can’t take away her thumb 😂