Okay folks…what’s the verdict on on soothers…???
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sorry,
I dunno.
Muzna..........:)
in my view soothers are bad
its your option to put your baby on soothers or bottles ....but believe me its not easy to switch it off
i really don't like when i see 4 yrs old holding a bottle/soother........n i see it happening quite often
try this link:
From personal experience.... soothers are a blessing! Dunno what we'd have done without 'em.
Plus, when it came time to give 'em up... not really had any problems.
I guess everyone may have a different experience on that.
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*Originally posted by Faisal: *
From personal experience.... soothers are a blessing! Dunno what we'd have done without 'em.
Plus, when it came time to give 'em up... not really had any problems.
I guess everyone may have a different experience on that.
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hmmm, personal experience?. You still use 'em?
Personal experience of a parent. We didn't give pacifiers to our eldest daughter, for similar concerns. We did give it to our two younger kids and it was very helpful. The kids gave up soothers by the time they were 2.
Before the age of 6 they should be rid of as well as the bottle. Soothers are a definate asset to peace of mind :k:
I never gave it to Ishaa and never felt the need for it either.:)
Thanks for the link Shirin. I'll comment once I've read it.
Faisal,
How did you recognize the "need" for a soother? Is it to stop them crying?
There are only three times that Noor cries.....
1 - Hunger
2 - Soiled diaper and
3 - Discomfort from gas which is normally remedied by encouraging a burp or two.
My mother is dead against them. The only time I saw her admonish her six month old grandson (my nephew) was one morning when she took it out of his mouth and said "raatoN ko jagata hai jab tak choosni na do". I asked her why it was a bad thing when it calms him down, her answer was some thing like "because", made perfect sense to me. Women and their logic.
Oh one more thing Muzna, do get your daughter potty trained as soon as possible. My sister on the insistence of my mother had her son trained by the time he was 4/5 months old. Even his night diaper came out dry in the morning. This requires a lot of patience in the bathroom and mother's ability to whistle for long periods but this effort pays out in the end as I am sure changing soiled, smelly diapers is quite a difficult job.
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*Originally posted by Muzna: *
There are only three times that Noor cries.....
1 - Hunger
2 - Soiled diaper and
3 - Discomfort from gas which is normally remedied by encouraging a burp or two.
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I would think there must be a fourth reason for babies to cry... i.e. when they are tired. When babies are tired (which is about 2 hours after they last woke up :)) they'd cry to be put to sleep. At such young age, they can't go to sleep themselves. So if they are already fed and have clean diaper, then giving a pacifier calms them and they go to sleep easily. At the very least its a blessing for fathers. Then again, as I said, not all babies may be the same.
TGD... re: toilet training... The recent research which came out last week suggested that its easier and better to train the children after they are 27 months old. You can probably try to train babies as soon as they start understanding gestures, but its long, its messy and its not recommended. For one of our kids, we started earlier (1 yrs old) and it took 4 months before it was reasonably better. For the other we started late (about 2 yrs old), and she was perfect in about 3 days.
Yes Faisal, you are right. Noor now cries when she is tired....but usually it is around the same time that she is hungry and she falls asleep feeding, so I chalk it up to hunger. Thankfully she never falls asleep in the middle of feeding.....food is too important to her....she gets that from daddy. ;)
I know that there are security issues for kids and the sucking instinct is important that way so maybe that's why pacifiers are not totally admonished by the experts but I too had one of those mothers that hated to see a toddler walking around with a soother in its mouth for no reason.
On toilet training....someone I used to know also had trained her daughter at six months of age...but I don't know if that is healthy physiologically because it may teach them to hold it in and that is never healthy. I will have to read more on the subject but what Faisal is saying makes sense to me.
Muzna.......
what i've heard/seen is that its better to toilet train earlier........kids don't hold it (what i have seen).....they just start giving signals
but ....personally i couldn't do it .........as i was alone n never could think of spending half an hour every 3-4 hours only to save diapers .......i don't have that much patience ..........i try it around the age of 2.......n then its a lot easier
but again if you can afford that much time n effort then go for it .....:)
they are great especially when you have a sore throat.
Opened another thread. Sorry for inconvenience. smile
Yes Munni it is OT please open another thread.