Thumb vs dummy

I have to shut my mouth now or I will be branded a hypocrit! You see, I had very strong rather verbal opinions about the shameful face distorting dummy.  We were raised without one and Gioia is a thumb sucker so I never dreamed I would allow a pacifier to be placed into the mouth of one of my babes...till this weekend that is, and I did the placing.  Isla is so content and she hardly ever fusses, but she seems to be on a constant search for something to suck between her amazingly beautiful baby lips.  I give her my pinky finger some nights to help her sleep, but I do tend to loose focus and then she chokes as I tickle her throat, by accident.  To cut a silly story short, I thought to try a dummy, just to see if it would make even the slightest difference and low and behold it turned out to be her off switch and every mommy needs to find their babies volume control and off switch.