George never had a dummy. Looking back now, I think I should have given him one. His sucking technique couldn't have been any worse than it was, and in any case he ended up spending hours sucking our fingers, when a dummy would have been cleaner and easier. I think I just had an anti-dummy-snob mentality!

With Milly, we introduced it at about 6 weeks once the breastfeeding was going well. We then phased it out at 6 months at the same time as starting her on solids. This was very easy to do, but then I don't think that she was really that attached to it in the first place.