I didn't want to because I thought it would interfere with bfing in a big way, but caved in when DS was 3 days old because I was his walking dummy! Haven't looked back since as it's saved me a lot of sleep and headaches, and we've bfed for 10 weeks tomorrow and still going with no issues.

The only thing I think you have to be careful of is that hunger signs could get harder to see. DS sucks on his dummy harder and will sometimes spit it out to suck on his hands to let us know that he's hungry but will mostly just keep the dummy in hoping to get milk out of it! so looking for other signs like still looking around for something, not relaxing, jerky hand movements etc.

He can't be without his dummy at sleep times, or when he's starting to get tired or has tummy aches and reflux. But, he's not chained to it, he's happy to play & cuddle without it too.

HTH!