Breastfeeding and Dummy

Are any breast l feeding Mummas using a dummy yet? Struggling to get any sleep as my little one is cluster feeding and also using me as a dummy wanting comfort every time I put her down in her crib at night. She’s almost constantly latched on overnight and it’s just exhausting 🙈

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We're breastfeeding and using the mam dummys and it hasn't effected baby at all so far and he's 9 days old x

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Breastfeeding and also using MAM dummies ☺️
I tend to break her latch when she falls asleep / stops feeding and pop the dummy straight in.
It definitely seems to help! X

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We're breastfeeding and been using a dummy since day 2. He was struggling to gain weight and I worried it was the dummy, but he actually had a tongue tie. We only really use it for the car and if he's full, but struggling to settle at night. I waited with my daughter, but she refused all dummies and bottles.

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Ok! I tried last night in desperation for some sleep and then the feed after it was like she had forgotten how to latch so now I’m scared to try again 🙈

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I do, 4 weeks old, ebf and had a dummy since 2 weeks c

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I was watching something about BF and dummies and they said to wait til around 6 weeks because the sucking motion could cause them to miss feeds and they swallow salvia xx

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Thanks for this post very helpful information as I too am struggling with decent sleep. But just like the poster my LO seems to forget how to latch after the binky is used. Waiting 6 weeks seems to make sense that way he’ll get the hang of BF but the comfort part idk how to manage

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We have found swaddling really helps at night time for sleeping?

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I had to use the dummy from day 7 because mine was doing the same and my boobs were really suffering because of it

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I’m in exactly the same boat!

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