tinkabel, dokie,
i was also quite reluctant to give pacifier... but that time, when we cldn't calm her down at all, we hv no choice but to resort to it... now, it's our life-saver!
sometimes when i know she's tired yet can't fall asleep on her own, i will pop the pacifier in her mouth, gradually she will go into slumberland... it also gives me some free time either to do my things or to handle the elder gal...
i still rem. the days when my elder gal never took pacifier, we actually spent up to an hr to get her to fall asleep at night! it was tiring man!
i also agree with tinkabel that pacifier is better than thumb lor, at least at this stage we can still choose to give or not give pacifier to them, but with thumb, they can put it in their mouth anytime...