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Is my baby using me as a pacifier?
I can see why. You are warmer, sweeter and taste better than a pacifier.
I’m serious! How can I tell if that’s why she’s always up at night?
Babies like to suck. You are warmer than any plastic binky, and Mommy is much cuddlier
than a pacifier, no matter what stuffed animals you safety pin to the end of it.
I can’t tell if I’m nursing badly or she’s pacifying badly.
One way you can tell is if she tries to keep sucking on you after she’s full. For example,
she sucks once and stops but cries when pulled away.
She always cries when I pull her away.
You ought to train her to use a pacifier.
How do I do that?
After you breast feed and burp her, give her a pacifier while you rock her. Then she doesn’t
associate a pacifier with being left cold and alone in her crib.
How can I tell when it switches from breastfeeding to pacifying?
When she’s full, you can burp her and she doesn’t scream in hungry protest. Pop in
the pacifier and keep holding her so she’ll feel warm and loved.
Sometimes she occasionally sucks from time to time.
And it really sucks! Sorry, my bad.
And it seems like she’s still swallowing from time to time.
Of course she is, with a mouth full of milk. But there’s another reason to put at end
to it, your sleep schedule.
I’m up every hour or two to feed her.
If she uses you as a pacifier, she uses up the full stomach of milk before getting a
few swallows over another half hour. You get no sleep while she wakes up on schedule for
food.
I heard that it is normal to breastfeed babies every hour or two.
Babies should sleep at least two hours between feedings as newborns and grow to four hours
of sleep for both of you.
Sounds like she needs to get accustomed to a pacifier for both our sakes.