Truth Set Free

Parents use dummies in a regular basis and we all like when the baby don’t cry too much specially when we are at the mall or shopping but really do dummies have a good impact in the baby development ?

I have two kids and the old one is about 3 1/2 years old now and it took him very long to talk .

He started babling when he was like 8-12 month which we (the parents) didn’t like at all .
The main reason i think of it now is the use of dummy on a daily basis.We gave him dummy once and he loved it so fast , then he get hooked to it .
He won’t sleep without it , he will cry out all night long if he doesn’t get it and most of all he preferred it over the breast milk which he eventually stop before 4 month old.

Now the 2nd baby is about 4 month old and we decided to not use dummy anymore and i have to say although is a slow process to peace when it comes to baby cry and noise we just enjoying it.
The baby cry lot that’s for sure but the most amazing is that the baby babbling already since he was like 1 month 1/2.
We were very surprise at how fast the speech are going just by not using dummy and how he stuck to the breast milk and do the opposite of its big brother , he doesn’t want the bottle milk , only breastfeed, and you have to keep reading and talking to him all the time he is babbling otherwise he will just keep crying.

- Now i can never say its fun because is not if you have to wake up the next morning  7 am for work , but it’s good for the baby speech learning.
There are tons of researches and studies about it and i wish i did check them first as there more problems can occur like using a dummy prevents babies from babbling, link to stomach and other infections, dental infections, ear infections, and can lead to   breastfeeding crisis, but again there is another study which revealed dummy can be good sometimes as they may help prevent cot death and the evidence was so compelling that in 2007 the Foundation for the Study of Sudden Infant Death (FSID) changed its guidelines to include dummy use.

But for us and if we ever have another kid ( hopefully in our next life ) will not use dummy or any sort like again as we see how not using it improved our new baby speech greatly.

Yes there always a good side of everything bad but if you think you can find the balance i guess then you are in the right zone .

Remember this is our own observations of our own kid behaviour using dummy and we are not a scientist (that mean can be wrong too) , so if you have a baby and thinking of using or not , do yourself a favor and Google it or research a bit instead of just taking what you read here as fact as even different environment can lead to different results.

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 affect you or your baby. thanks

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