That is the question! Ahhhh…pacifiers…the great debate. Do they enable? Do they cause bad teeth? Are they evil? We have made our decision… It’s hogwash! (what does that word mean?) God bless them!
To suck or not to suck
Published by December 18th, 2006 in Adventures in Pregnancy and Uncategorized.14 Responses to “To suck or not to suck”
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YEAH!
Suck it!
I have three children. Soothers (or numnums as we always call them) have saved my life all three times.
First son gave it up voluntarily at 10 months.
Second had his two years until the dentist said he had to give them up (he had many) because he had an “open bite” which means he sucked it so much the top teeth wouldn’t meet the bottom. They grew in properly within weeks.
Third son gave up voluntarily at 6 months.
I say GO for it.
We honestly could not have survived without them. (I would have had to nurse 150 times a day instead. Not my idea of a life!).
I only just started reading when your daughter was born (via Babes in Blogland). Your daughter is a such a doll.
Congrats!
Praise the LORD for pacifiers was my motto!
I was dead set against them - that is until Avi was born. How is it that what you said you totally won’t do changes as soon as your child is born? I hate to watch him cry and cry when all he really needs is to suck.
So Michael give him a paci if he needs it at night or when he is crying non-stop. That is -when he really needs to suck and Michael doesn’t have a boob to give him.
Avi won’t take the paci from me - he knows already that I have the boobs that are perfect for sucking AND he gets something out of them.
So the paci with us is just every now again… and we are waiting for him to be able to open his hand and suck his fingers/thumb…. which of course I am perfectly ok with… go figure!
What a timely post! We just had the pacifier issue come up last night - Bridget wouldn’t stop crying and I think she is having a growth spurt, but she’d stay on the boob forever just suckling. We gave her a paci but I felt so bad about it, that I took it away. I guess I was being silly - if nothing else works, and the baby just wants to suck, what’s the harm?
Thanks for posting this!
Hey, I think they are just fine, though I have a thumb sucker over here, I tried to get him on the “binkie” he just wanted his thumb.
Hey Kelly, I have been reading your post ever since the scare you had at the beginning of your pregnancy. God has truly blessed you and Ryan with a beautiful baby. Here’s my thing on pacifiers… I was super happy when my daughter took one, we could pretty much calm the infant storms that would occasionally arrive with it. And for the perfect weaning we simply cut the bulb. However, when my first son was born he wouldn’t take one. We tried and tried. He sucks his thumb.. grr, I can’t cut that, now what do I do? haha Yeah and then guess what. Here comes baby #3. He won’t take a pacifier either. They sure are cute sucking their thumbs BUT, it’s a whole lot easier weaning them off of a “binky”!
Yup, your kid sucks. *giggle*
I was against “binkies” (as we call them) until Elizabeth was 2 weeks old and nothing would calm her. It worked the first time, and I was in love with them.
Then when we did Ferberizing with her, she started sucking her thumb, prefers that and hasn’t taken a binkie since she was 3.5 months.
Its a personal decision, and I wouldn’t worry about it at all!
GO FOR IT!! They are lifesavers. All my kids have had them. The first two boys had them for at least two years and they have beautiful teeth. Okay, the didn’t suck on it 24/7 though. More like when they needed comfort or for going to sleep
As for whether they are good for them or not…dunno.
As for whether they are good for us or not…YES!!
Chloe’s so beautiful!
I call them “the talk” you know it’s that talk you have with a friend that has just been thru a crisis, that says: Everything is going to be ok, we will make it thru this together. I mean it’s not the talk you have with your friend all the time but you can use it when you need it and it encourages them.
It never lets me down.. I try all else first and then i just give it to her and it works.. Let me encourage you to relax right now and fall asleep, let me encourage you to forget that you are cold..and let me warm you, let me encourage you to forget about your gas for a second and let me pat you.. Let me encourage you to enjoy your car seat..
Ahh it encourages ME TO ENJOY MOTHERHOOD.. I’m soo thankful for the Pacifier.. it truly does Pacify.. ahhh I mean she’s not still going to be sucking on it when she’s 3 but for now it works. We can always take it away you know?
i sucked my thumb till i was in preschool and my teeth are fine. pacifiers are no different, right? yeah. hogwash. you tell ‘um kel. and by “‘um” i mean THEM…..those people……uhhhhhh.