I resisted giving S the pacifier initially because I think these artificial rubbery things would spoil her baby palette. Later on, I succumbed to it in a bid to preserve my sanity. I even used it quite a bit on the long two hour car ride back from Monterey. However she resisted her feeds after, refusing breast, SNS and bottle. She only gained one ounce that week. So I refused to give her any pacifier after that (to dd's dismay) even if it made cr rides so unbearable.
Nowadays she has mastered the art of sucking her fingers. It kind of coincided with the time we tried the Ferber method on her, so she sucks her fingers to sleep now. S doesn't have any favourite fingers, she just randomly stuffs them into her mouth, which I think it's cute actually. But some people warn that it might be difficult to wean her off finger sucking later on so they use pacifier. But some people say they have to wean off the pacifier later on as well. Well, can't please everyone of course. For now, I'm sticking to the finger sucking because when a baby needs to suck, she needs to suck! It saves us the trouble of always having to remember to pack the pacifier too.
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