Help with the binkies!

I have 2 precious 6 week old baby boys and they love their binkies! It's pretty much the only thing that calms them when they get fussy... I found they love the sound of rain falling (play it on my ipod to put them to sleep) but they want to have binkies in their mouths too! Well they take a couple sucks and then the binkie always comes out and I am constantly putting it back in. It's not bad when I can hold one of them and hold the binkie in and it almost always puts them to sleep after about 10-20 minutes but it's impossible to hold two babies and two binkies in at the same time...

Anyone else have this problem?

 

WE DID! I tried everything! I even bought the pacifiers for babies with cleft palates called "Wubbanubs"! They had a stuffed animal sewn on them just cuz I thought THAT might help... NOPE!

Seriously. It was tough!

I just finally gave up the ghost at 12 weeks and realized my kids were never going to take pacifiers. Keep trying but if they don't take to them, they may just not be pacifier kids.

GL!

ETA> here is the website. It looks like they've broadened their horizons since I bought them. Now they are marketing to everyone. YAY! http://www.wubbanub.com/

 

Well I know my boys love the pacys because they quiet at soon as they get them in their mouth and suck on them! They also reach for them with open mouth if I put them in front of their face...

I looked into the wubanubs today, but the boys hated the soothies... They like the NUKs.

My husband has been swaddling the pacys in their mouth to keep them in, but I dont know how to do it

 

At 6 weeks they still dont have the suction power to keep them in. The best trick is to put them in and tap it twice in the center of the paci. It seems to help them get a better grip on it. Around 3-4 months is when they start being able to keep it in better.

 

DUCT TAPE!!!!

I only wish. I had 1 that used a binky and had the same problem. We used a clip to attach it to his shirt so when it did pop out, he could put it back himself. We never found a solution to stop it from falling out in the first place. Then again he was a bit older than 6 weeks when he learned to put it back in himself. Until then, it was a tedious task.

 

This is what we did.

 

My girls LOVED their Wubbanubs, and I did have success with these keeping the pacis in when they were sleeping. But since your boys don't like Soothies, you should check out the Paci Plushies. I haven't tried them, but I've been thinking about getting a couple since I'm trying to move the girls to a different paci.

 

I was going to suggest that. That's exactly what dh did! He would swaddle them up really tight, put the pacifier in, and then pull up the swaddle just over the pacifier-just the bottom of it, not the whole thing. If they wanted to get rid of it, they still could, and did. But I think it was helpful at least for those first few minutes to calm them down. Good luck!

 

Ya, mine LOVED them too. Just NEVER were able to keep them in. Ever. Not even later on. We swaddled them in but they'd find a way to push them out. Very frustrating. I wish you luck in your endeavor

 

Ditto here lol!

 

thank you ladies for all the advice!

 

by the way I ordered 2 paci plushies today, so I will let you all know if they work!