Dummies

My oldest never had a dummy, my baby has taken to it really surprisingly well! He’s 16 weeks and ebf, we started giving it to him in the car and buggy if he was getting upset but we were on the go and I also use it to help him fall asleep in the day when I’ve got both kids and can’t rock him or soothe him. I’m new to this and I have questions for dummy parents…

How many do you have? How often do you wash? How do you store them? When do you or don’t you offer it? When do you stop? How do you stop?! Help!!!

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We also have 4, yet to get glow in the dark ones but I had them for my first and they were fab. When he was a baby baby we’d use Milton wipes to give it a quick wipe if it was dropped and then gave them a proper wash at the end of the day. Mam dummies come with a case so we used the case they came with however you can buy dummy cases online. We offer it to our 3 month old for naps mostly but not each nap. With our 3 year old we stopped around 9 months as for us the main thing was how it helps reduce the risk of SIDS so he really didn’t need it longer than that, we got lucky and he got a bad cold and was so congested that he couldn’t use the dummy- used that as my opportunity to go cold turkey

Thanks ladies. We are only using it for naps not for night time, and to calm him down when I can’t get to him another way (car, nursery drop off) but I think he is now wanting it in other moments and trying to figure out what the right balance is!

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