Re: Paci's, yes or no?
I did not use paci's with my son and he started sucking his thumb. The Dr's said he would automatically stop at a certain age. Now he's 4-1/2 and every once in awhile he sucks his thumb. SIGH
So with my daughter we used the soothie paci. She LOVES IT! It's always in her mouth so we bought her an attachment that hangs on her clothes. I said it's easier to take away the pacy than the thumb. Well she loves it at night and sometimes when it falls out she will wake up and whine a bit until we put it back in. Sometimes she sleeps and it falls out and she doesn't wake. It soothes her when she's crying very fast and she's a biter at daycare so they actually requested we bring her pacy for her so she can be discouraged from biting others. Her entire class is full of biters so it happens. She's 15 months old now, but we figure sometime in the future we'll take it away from her. She does love those soothies.
For this one, I think we are going to go the same way with the soothies. I think it does depend on the baby a lot. My son HATED pacys but always prefered his thumb. GO figure.
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