Okay, so I'm very new to the principles of AP, although I have been doing a lot of it just naturally since my baby was born. He's now 7 weeks old. We adopted him at birth, so are bottle feeding, although we did get to use my sister's donated breastmilk exclusively for the first 2 weeks! He's now on full formula. My question is this: he loves his pacifier. What does AP say about pacifiers? I'll admit that I haven't researched it much, but thought this might be a good place to start. I see it as a positive--it provides security for him and he obviously gets something from it. He uses it a lot--when we hold him (which is most of the time) and when we don't, falling asleep and sometimes while awake.

I'd love to hear what API says about this (all I read on the website was that they don't recommend the paci for transitional times--but I don't know what that means or why) or what you have found in your experience.

TIA! I know I have LOTS to learn, but I'm ready to soak up some info!