Refusing the Pacifier. Need Help.

I have tried 3 different types (tommee tippe, Avent and NUK) but I can not get my 12 week old to get the hang of taking a pacifier. Am I missing something? Is there a trick to it?

He is BF ...... do BF babies always have a hard time with a pacifier?

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Is there a reason you are insisting that your LO use one? DS never took one and he was formula fed. He just never liked it. Just figure it was one less habit I had to break later on.

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DS took it rarely and by six months wanted nothing to do with it. I didn't push it and he has no interest in them now.
I wouldn't make a big deal of it.

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I agree...sounds like your DC doesn't need it. I did the same thing, I thought it was strange that Ds didn't want it, so I tried a few different types, but then it hit me...he doesn't like it..lol...and now at 9 months, he has never once used one :)

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My dd never took a pacifier and I never pressed the issue.

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Both my kids never took the pacifier. My first took nothing, my DD - I still can't get rid of the thumb

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Neither of my kids ever used one. And honestly I would be relieved if I were you. One less thing to wean them off later.

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If they don't want it, I wouldn't push it. It's not necessary and doesn't sound like your LO likes it. Look at it this way....one less habit to break when they are older.

DS took one but I was warned by a lactation consultant that it may cause nipple confusion, but that didn't ring true for me. However, may want to consider that especially if you run into any nursing difficulties, especially if DC becomes satisfied by sucking on the paci vs you.

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I was on here asking for sugestions to the same thing for my newborn.

Why push it?
Less risk of sids
They can learn to soothe themselves
Taking away pacifier is easier than the thumb
Its great to have something sanitary to stick in their mouths when you are not in the cleanest place and they are trying to put things in mouth


I pushed when ds started sucking thumb(2m), I was not going to put up with it, I would slip hand out, paci in, equiped with toy for the offending hand. After a week, it worked to keep his hand out. But he never really would take it for naps or anything.

One day he came back from walk with MIL, with a paci in his mouth(3m), she said he was teething and it helped him. From that day on, he takes it to soothe teething pain, to nap, sleep, and I don't care if he uses it till he's 5.

He only takes avent pacifiers, tmi but they are very much the way my nipples flatten out when he bf. Anyway I tried all of them till I found Avent. Just have to find what he likes best.

You can encourage them to hold on to it, by putting in, and slightly pulling out as f to kind of teese them, it will train them to hold the paci even when they aren't sucking.

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my dd only takes the soothie brand (the ones of which you can see up the middle). she rejected 4 other kinds. we use tommee tippee bottles.

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DS is breastfed. We tried everything (because he was always using ME as a pacifier).

He takes them now - it is sooooooooooo much easier to get him to take naps (especially when someone other than me is putting him down).

DS is only 3 months. We had tried everything. I was looking at the nipple and I thought they may be too small for him (he is a big boy). We had 6+ month MAMs and we just started giving them to him at 12 weeks and he LOVES it - it worked! He still isn't crazy about the pacifier though, he is certainly no addict. We just give it when he needs a nap or is a bit cranky - such a lifesaver.