https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:29:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-479980 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:50:11 +0000 jedeve 479980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They reduce the risk of SIDS, I believe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-479851 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:39:08 +0000 cvbee 479851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine used it for a month (from 6 weeks when I introduced). I was picky about when I gave it, like you describe. It was magic and I liked to save it as MY treat (as in, easy get-out-of-helping-baby time). I usually used it in the evening, and when we were out when I didn't want baby to cry. But then a month into that, he rejected the thing. Then I wished he'd take it so I could still have my magic trick. No dice. I tried almost daily for a month and then randomly for weeks and weeks. Now it is a bath toy. He holds the part you are supposed to put in your mouth, and mouths the other side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-479664 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:30:43 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 479664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lala rejected them and never used one, but M. uses it as a self-soothing technique. My girls are night and day :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-479660 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:29:32 +0000 immabeetoo 479660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for the responses! I certainly don't want to deny him something that would make him happy but I don't want to push it in him either. He isn't usually a big comfort nurser so may e he just doesn't need one; he rarely falls asleep nursing even before bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478980 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:46:43 +0000 autumnlove 478980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hope my second LO prefers a paci over her thumb! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478883 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:08:25 +0000 Kemma 478883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm going to be brutally honest but I cannot stand to see older babies sucking on paci's when out and about! </p> <p>I certainly understand using them at sleep times and they can be a godsend for newborn's who just want to suck, but I'm sure that for older babies its just a bad habit.</p> <p>Interestingly enough out of the twelve babies in my coffee group, mine is the only one who doesn't have a paci (although we did sporadically use one in the very early days) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478881 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:07:48 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 478881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some babies have a really high need to suck. We used it because DD would comfort nurse all day if I had let her. Instead, we gave her the pacifier (from day 1) so she could satisfy her need to suck and learn that the boob is for eating only. Some babies don't really need it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478863 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:01:41 +0000 HLK208 478863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a pacifier while we swaddled so she could calm herself. She also knew as soon as she was wrapped up like a burrito and sucking on a paci that it was sleep time. It really helped her to sleep through the night. Once the swaddle was gone, so was the pacifier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478681 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:05:25 +0000 rachiecakes 478681@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS would fall asleep on the breast but wake up if I tried to move him off, so I would use the pacifier to lay him down for naps and bedtime. It was short-lived and he has moved on to his thumb (and he only sucks his thumb when he's tired and ready for bed or a nap).<br /> Pacifiers helped me tremendously in the beginning with the laying down to sleep thing. If I didn't have one I don't think he would've slept away from me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478645 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:51:26 +0000 MamaMoose 478645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also.. We introduced one because I am really against getting into the habit of comfort nursing. I don't want to feel like I am a pacifier and I don't want little lady to be dependent on me and only me being able to calm her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478637 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:49:31 +0000 sarac 478637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I'm with you. I think they're dumb. My baby really never saw the point. Some children like to suck so much that they find them really comforting, and that's a use. But I'd never push one on a child. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478633 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:48:47 +0000 MamaMoose 478633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO mostly only uses her paci to settle down to sleep. Once she's fully asleep she spits it out and doesn't want it back. Usually if she's hysterical it means she's hungry and she absolutely will not take the paci... She wants a boob and she wants it NOW. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478631 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:47:20 +0000 ladyfingers 478631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The way I understand it is babies self-soothe with sucking. Same concept as comfort nursing, sucking thumbs, etc. But I don't think all babies really need them... I've heard of some babies who are inconsolable until you try a pacifier, some who are indifferent, others who hate pacifiers. It doesn't really sound like you need to always offer him one, that it works fine to just have it on the back burner as an option for when he's really nuts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478624 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:45:03 +0000 yoursilverlining 478624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use a pacifier for when LO needs to calm down a bit. She basically only gets a paci to fall asleep with for naps, or if she is crabby for unknown reasons (not hungry, etc.). Sucking on the paci instantly calms her down a few notches. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/explain-pacifiers-to-me#post-478580 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:27:57 +0000 immabeetoo 478580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not anti-pacifier, but I feel like I don't "get" them. We waited till a month to think about using since he is EBF - he sleeps decently without one. We've used it twice when he was really wound up, we knew he'd just eaten, and he was hysterical.</p> <p>When do you use a pacifier? I would rather the pacifier than the thumb if he's going to use one... but don't really want to "push" it on him? </p> <p>Am I overthinking this? </p>