DH and I have always been on the "no pacifier/soothie" belief on how we wanted to raise our LO. We have a lot of friends who never had to use a pacifier or soothie. And others, whose 3 year olds still can't give them up. Either way, we both just really didn't want to ever start with the pacifier.
But I seriously think K would love a paci/soothie and we don't want to succumb to it. She is CONSTANTLY "rooting". I could feed her 20 min. apart for 20 min. each time and in the past few days I can tell that for a good part of each session, she has started just comfort sucking. I don't mind, but she is also not falling asleep. Just sucking, almost falling asleep, fussing, want the boob again, repeat. If anyone else is holding her, they always hand her back to me saying "she's hungry" or "she's looking for a boob!" I don't mind when we are home. But it's really draining in the middle of the night, and makes going out a lot more difficult. I also know she'd probably like a paci on car rides, when half the time she's wailing her little lungs out. Sometimes we've let her suck on our clean finger just to calm her down.
Does anyone have any alternative solution to soothe a newborn without a paci/soothie? Or is resistance futile?
* Sorry if the post is written weird. It's taken me 2 days to finish and I'm a little delirious!