dummys and breastfeeding

[angelbabies]

im breastfeeding my daughter she is 2 weeks old and is feeding realy well but she always wants to suckle on something she trys to suck her thum but cant keep it in her mouth and gets realy upset so she will cry for me to latch her on and would stay on my nipple all day if i let her, its not that shes hungrey shes putting on the ounces well so i thought i would try a dummy but i no they say they can make breastfeeding hard. what do you think?

[Hope2OneDay]

I've been giving my baby a pacifier since she was 3 days old and she has no problem with distinguishing it from a boob. She also started taking a bottle when she was two weeks old so that my dh can feed her. Still no problems...
My son had no problem with boob, paci and bottle either. No confusion whatsoever.

I guess it depends on the baby?

[angelbabies]

yea sorry thats what we call them in england, yea i think i have an "evil boob" too lilly likes one more than the outher its strange

[SolusChristus]

When you say dummy, are you talking about a pacifier? I think a pacifier confused Annabelle when she was first learning to breastfeed, but now that she's got it figured out, it doesn't seem to be a problem.
Our only real problem is that she strongly prefers one booby over the other; I have had the HARDEST time getting her to take the "evil boob", as we call it around here.