Hi, we went with the dummy for a couple of reasons: a) you can take it away later and they are designed to cause fewer problems with the shape of teeth as they form and b) we then could control when the dummy was administered (ie only at sleeping time - hate the sight of a child with dummy in mouth talking around it as it can be an impediment to speech development)!

The other main reason we even started with the dummy was because DD would get confused about when to start sucking at feeding time, if I could get her sucking on the dummy, I could then whip it out and pop my nipple in. Unconventional method, i know, but it worked for us!