Refusing pacifer

My 5 week old really does not like taking a pacifer. He will keep it in his mouth for like 5 minutes here and there. I combo feed him so I know he latches well and he doesn't refuse bottles.

I've tried different pacifiers and so far no win. Avent soothie and ultra air models and tommy tipee.

I don't want to necessarily keep buying and wasting money, but I would love for one to keep him settled because he can be quite a mood lol

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No help here, none of my 3 ever accepted a pacifier. My youngest is 7 months and has learned to self soothe without it. Personally, I’m very happy that he never became dependent on one.

My little one liked the pacifier for a month and rejected it. After that ,we tried different brands but he still wasn't interested. We ended up using white noise & that was my go to for soothing when he was young!

I use the Phillips advent pacifiers the same as her bottles and she seems to like them as they are similar to the nipples on the bottle, are you using the same kind as his bottles? Maybe try that, also some babies just don’t take to them!

My baby will only take the Bibs pacifiers. You can find them on Amazon they're great.

Honestly it could just take a lot of practice. My 10 week old still doesn’t keep it in very well. Only when she really wants to and when I rock her she keeps it in the best.
We use the round avent ones.
My fist took the mam (then switched to the other Phillip air ones - the ones that are flatter) best.

Mine would not take a paci for the first 3 months (we dubbed them "paci-fliers", because they just went flying), but one day suddenly decided she liked them. Now she uses them to sleep almost every night. Don't throw them out just yet, they might be needed one day!

The ones my daughter chose were avent, will not take any other kind.

My 5 week old would just let it fall out of his mouth for the longest time, I find if I hold it there for a few minutes while he gets his rhythm down its fine and now he will take it by himself

My baby refused the pacifier when he was a few weeks olds, we didnt push him and it’s worked out well for us till now! I still keep the pacifier and now at 8 months he uses is to bite on it because he’s teething but it’s the last thing he will pick up from his teething toy selections

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