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To use a dummy or not?

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  • I have three grandsons....the eldest just used to push it out with his tongue, so he never had one. The middle one had a dummy and towards the latter stages just asked for it for bed and then one day he just seemed to forget about it all together and stopped. The youngest one is now 10+ weeks and he just seems to push it out with his tongue, so looks like he is not bothered about having one.
  • pigpen
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    I really am beginning to worry about your DS1, Piggers!


    :rotfl:

    you, me and his counsellor!!! lol
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  • Mics_chick
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    I didn't use dummies with either of mine but in some ways wish I had coz they both sucked their thumb instead which is cute when they're babes but not so much now they're 7.5 & 6.
    I don't know where to start to try to get them to stop - I understand it can be a nightmare to get a dummy from a child but at least you can take it off them - you can't do that with their thumb!!!
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  • Both mine have had dummies, my son is 2.5 and still has his at nap/bed time or if he gets upset. He also has a blankie that he loves! He had a dummy from about 5 days old and i bf him for a year so it in no way interferred with bf. My dd gave hers up when my son was a few months old, she was almost 3 and she gave them to santa, i decided not to take it away before then because i didnt want her to associate her new brother with her dummy going. She never bothered at all then. I dont care what anyone thinks to me using dummies, theyre my kids and theyre both fantastic. :)
    Each to their own
  • Both mine have had dummies, my son is 2.5 and still has his at nap/bed time or if he gets upset. He also has a blankie that he loves! He had a dummy from about 5 days old and i bf him for a year so it in no way interferred with bf. My dd gave hers up when my son was a few months old, she was almost 3 and she gave them to santa, i decided not to take it away before then because i didnt want her to associate her new brother with her dummy going. She never bothered at all then. I dont care what anyone thinks to me using dummies, theyre my kids and theyre both fantastic. :)
    Each to their own
  • "DS1 clipped his to his willy!! :eek: "
    Oh my goodness, that made me laugh, but I can't let on to my husband why I am laughing, and he must never read this or he will take away our son's dummy clip! He once read something about a baby boy becoming distressed because there was a hair wrapped round his penis and he went on and on about it for ages! (He's a very anxious daddy)
  • pollypenny
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    I thought my tiny baby girl was so sweet and clever as she traced her thumb down her nose to find her mouth.

    She didn't look so sweet, sucking her thumb at 11.

    You can take a dummy away. You can't take a thumb away.
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  • pigpen
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    "DS1 clipped his to his willy!! :eek: "
    Oh my goodness, that made me laugh, but I can't let on to my husband why I am laughing, and he must never read this or he will take away our son's dummy clip! He once read something about a baby boy becoming distressed because there was a hair wrapped round his penis and he went on and on about it for ages! (He's a very anxious daddy)

    he is 19 now and it was not harmed in any way by the dummy clip.. he has always been a very special child! :mad::p:eek::o;):D

    My neice almost lost a toe when a hair got wrapped around it when she was very very tiny
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  • Oh shhhh Pigpen! :rotfl:
  • Oh shhhh Pigpen! :rotfl:


    Hide this thread - or he'll be wanting you to have a grade 2!
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