Use of a dummy

mildred1978

hngrymummy wrote: »

Thanks Elle I was hospitalised with my last pregnancy due to MS, so they've taken it seriously this time and I'm on tablets already. I could only eat potatoes and apple juice last time. This time it's cheesecake and orange juice.

I'll try the mints, as I'm getting heartburn too, and a really horrid taste in my mouth all the time

It's juice and sugar that are likely to cause the heartburn!!

Ellejmorgan

hngrymummy wrote: »

Thanks Elle I was hospitalised with my last pregnancy due to MS, so they've taken it seriously this time and I'm on tablets already. I could only eat potatoes and apple juice last time. This time it's cheesecake and orange juice.

I'll try the mints, as I'm getting heartburn too, and a really horrid taste in my mouth all the time

It's not the juice that cause heartburn, it's the sickness that causes heartburn, the two are related and anything you eat or drink will cause the problem...

I tried everything and only Trebor xtra one's work, nothing else did it.Try the £1 shops as it's about 5 rolls for £1...

Make sure you take extra care with your teeth though as quite sugary..

hngrymummy

mildred1978 wrote: »

It's juice and sugar that are likely to cause the heartburn!!

Unfortunately, not much else stays put in my stomach, so I'll have to keep with my cheesecake diet for now.

Elle - I owe you! I'm chewing a mint and at last that taste has gone. I feel so much better :T

mildred1978

Ellejmorgan wrote: »

It's not the juice that cause heartburn, it's the sickness that causes heartburn, the two are related and anything you eat or drink will cause the problem...

I tried everything and only Trebor xtra one's work, nothing else did it.Try the £1 shops as it's about 5 rolls for £1...

Make sure you take extra care with your teeth though as quite sugary..

What works for you won't necessarily work for everyone.

When pregnant I could eat anything but sugary foods, fruit juices and raw onions. I had horrific heartburn the whole pregnancy, but I wasn't sick once.

My son is now 2 and I still can't eat those things without getting awful heartburn.

So sometimes you're wrong.

thorsoak

DD was born sucking her fingers! In fact I tore quite badly because of the way that her arm was positioned as she sucked! She continued to suck her fingers (2nd & 3rd on left hand) until she was over 3 ....after all, you can take a dummy away, but you cannot take fingers away! DSs 1-3 all sucked thumbs - could never get them to accept dummies - but there again, 60s/70s dummies were not really approved of.

They have never had any dental/jaw alignment problems ...we were concerned about DD's speech when she was between 3-4 - no-one apart from DS1 (2 years older) could understand her - but once he started school and she had to make herself understood it became as clear as a bell.

Grandchildren have all had dummies/pacifiers but by the age of 2-3 years, all had stopped using them - in the case of DGS1, the "passyfairy" took it away and left him a bike :eek: - in the cases of DGDs - they all stopped at about the same age - and by that time it was bedtime only in any case.

It is a subject that is all too easy to become stressed about - and it really isn't worth worrying over imo!

tiamai_d

faerie~spangles wrote: »

Why, why, why are those things plugged into babies mouths?

Why, why, why do you care if it's not your baby?

vickynleon

if you read alot of baby books they recommend using a dummy, firstly because it can reduce cot death and also because you can take a dummy away where as if a baby gets attatched to a thumb you cant. i wasnt planning on using a dummy with my first child but when you've got a screaming baby that won't settle you will try anything.

the thing with kids people judge without knowing the situation, my 4 year old son broke his foot a few months back and he was to small to use crutches so i went out and bought a pushchair to get him about and a woman passed us in the street and looked at me in disgust and said he's old enough to be pushing that himself, she soon changed her tune when she seen his foot in plaster and said...oh...he's got a bad foot, yes he flipping did and i think i was being a very good mum by letting him use a pram rather than struggling because he was still getting fresh air rather than being stuck inside.

i would love to know if the op has kids, because being a parent isnt easy.

ska_lover

Parents give their children dummies, for the same reasons other parents sit children in front of the tele for hours on end.

Cos they want an easy life.


You can disect it any way you want, it always comes out the same.


Yes I know being a parent is not easy - I am one.

Ellejmorgan

mildred1978 wrote: »

What works for you won't necessarily work for everyone.

When pregnant I could eat anything but sugary foods, fruit juices and raw onions. I had horrific heartburn the whole pregnancy, but I wasn't sick once.

My son is now 2 and I still can't eat those things without getting awful heartburn.

So sometimes you're wrong.

She's having sickness and heartburn the two are related, read what she said, it's helping her...

I'm the first to admit i'm wrong on this occassion i'm not, so read what's written..;)

thorsoak

ska_lover wrote: »

Parents give their children dummies, for the same reasons other parents sit children in front of the tele for hours on end.

Cos they want an easy life.


You can disect it any way you want, it always comes out the same.


Yes I know being a parent is not easy - I am one.

Be careful .....it can get lonely up on the Moral High Ground!

Every family, every child is different. It is too easy to make sweeping statements. I could make the sweeping statement that parents who go to work, leaving children with childminders/nurseries are taking the option for an easy life ...........

(but I'm not!)