The Top Reasons Moms Use Pacifiers

My son does use a pacifier when he's ready to go to sleep. I think he just needs it to soothe him into it. During the day, he doesnt suck it. (Which, I think, is a good thing)

My daughter just spits it out. She is 5 months old and her two bottom teeth just pierced through the gums. I have started to give her a soother and she will use it for about 3 minutes and spit it out.

my daughter did. it helped soothe her when she wasn't using me as a pacifier. then she grew tired of having it and only played with it, but would take it on car rides. now, she could care less about it. i'm sort of glad, i don't have to worry about introducing some kind of binky fairy one day, but it sure would be nice if she'd take it in the car instead of screaming after 5 minutes. it's impossible to go anywhere without her screeching!

My son never used one, he would just spit it out and I was convinced that people give them to babies just to shut them up, out of laziness basically.

Then my daughter was born almost two months ago. She has such an intense need to suck constantly that she could not sleep if she didnt have something. I am breastfeeding and she was constantly crying to nurse, only half the time she didn't suck hard enough to get any milk out, she was just using my nipple to soothe herself to sleep. I gave her a paci for the first time when she was about a week old, just to give my nipples a break and she slept wonderfully!! She looked so peaceful and so happy to have it. I am a believer now that some babies just NEED them, others dont.

w/my 1st DD (now 19 mo) i gave it to her here & there in the begining but she was about a month old & was fussy & didn't want it i just took it away for good (i didn't want the hassle & she was totally fine.)

now my 2mo DD has just lately seemed more fussy & nothing i did would really soothe her aside from walking around w/her so i tried a paci & it seems to help. i only use as needed b/c as soon as she DOESN'T seem to need it it's GONE.  

I tried to use one with my BF babies, for while we were driving in the car, to help soothe them and they both wanted NOTING to do with them! it is true that it is ok to use for soothing purposes, until they are about 3-6 months old, then THROW IT AWAY!! I have a freind with a 2 & 3 year old, and she still uses them !!! it drives me CRAZY!!!!! but any way  but used the right way it should be ok.

i never wante my daughter to use one but i eventally gave her one brcause nthing would help sooth her. she is now six months and she uses it to go to sleep and when shes fussy

Ok i have 3 kids... Only my daughters have used pacifiers...  My middle daughter is 2 and i cant get rid of that stupid thing...  She will be 3 in February..  Anyone have any advice??

My daughter, who is a year old now, has been using them from day one. First of all I didn't know that they reduce SIDS until after I started giving her one. She's slowy growing out of it though. As of right now, she only wants it when she's tired or she's feeling overwhelmed. It's pretty much a comfort thing for her, at least that's what it seems like as far as I can tell. She's been doing pretty dang good about growing out things, so I'm worried about how long she'll be using it. I figure if she hasn't completely wheened herself off of it by the time she's two I'll have to step in. I don't see anything wrong with it though. And hoenstly I'm not going to call someone a bad parent because they don't give their kid one. It's everyone's personal choice.