We were not giving a pacifier because of hearing about breastfeeding issues and I don't want to deal with breaking the addiction when he is three but we gave him one now and it puts him to sleep pretty quick.
We will just have to try and break it before he is too old
Ha! We did the same thing with the first one! We only lasted a few days. Turns out that once the baby is latching on ok, it's no big deal. That pacifier will save your sanity...pop it in there.
Getting her off it wasn't too big a deal either. At around one year old, we started saying that it was only for nap and night time, and making her leave it in the bed herself. At about 20 months, we took the pacifiers with us to the toy store and had her all excited about trading them for some toys (we talked about it for a few days in advance). Then they were just gone. Now that we have them around again for our second one, we catch her occasionally sneaking one, but it's not really a big deal.
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