Thumb sucker

[shortyhmm]

Yes, thumb sucker, no slang meaning :nono: :teehee:

Olivia has decided that she doesn't want her dummy - which is fine, great even, if only she didn't prefer her thumb now instead! I thought it was funny watching her try to get her fist in her mouth, now it's progressed to the loudest thumb sucking ever.

I guess I'm not alone, guys? She'll grow out of it eventually I suppose.

[Helsbells]

Evie has always loved sucking for comfort and had a dummy after the first week because she was just using me as one.

She was a dummy-addict and couldn't settle without it.

I remember being in the bath one morning when she was about 4 months old and she went very quiet (unusual for her) and when I looked in she had found her thumb! :happyno: Ever since then she's become less and less interested in her dummy and has only had it twice in the couple of months. I'm worried about getting her to stop as I def don't want her to carry on doing it when she gets bigger - I'm just hoping she'll grow out of it.:yeahright:

:fingerscrossed: crossed (or should that be thumbs?!)

[sparkliness]

I love the fact that Molly sucks her thumb. I can't remember exactly when she found it, but it was fantastic; she'd get disturbed in her sleep stick in her thumb and settle straight away.

She now puts her thumb in when she's tired, and when she's going to sleep, and honestly I don't mind at all. I'm sure she'll grow out of it one day anyway.

[Henrietta Figg]

I was talking about this to my sister yesterday, we are both in our thirties and admitted to very occasionally popping our thumbs in our mouths even now, in the privacy of our own homes. My OH doesn't even comment on it. I really don't think you can make a baby, child or adult stop as it is extremely and instantly comforting.

Neither of my daughters developed the habit, I think it would have benefitted them, to help them chill out occasionally. :thumb:

[popinjay1]

I was a thumb sucker and also do occasionally still do it when upset as it is very comforting :oops: . Alot of people are against dummies or thumb sucking carrying on past a certain age because of teeth and speech problems but I haven't had either. OK I my front teeth are further forward than my bottom teeth but it isn't noticeable to other people at all.

Claire didn't suck her thumb or anything either and I do think she would have benefitted as she was a very screamy baby.

Amy did have a dummy for a while but we haven't used it for nearly a week now as she has learnt to settle by herself. If she finds her thumb then so be it.

[Pancake01]

Maisie has suddenly started doing this too - she used to love her dummy and now she can take it or leave it. I often find her now with her thumb in her mouth. She does it after she's eaten, and in her pushchair sometimes. I think she looks sweet and there's not a lot I can do about it anyway!

[Elle Driver]

I love the fact that Molly sucks her thumb. I can't remember exactly when she found it, but it was fantastic; she'd get disturbed in her sleep stick in her thumb and settle straight away.

She now puts her thumb in when she's tired, and when she's going to sleep, and honestly I don't mind at all. I'm sure she'll grow out of it one day anyway.

Ditto Ditto Ditto!
I can't understand why people have such objections to bubbas/kids sucking their thumbs. i find it ADORABLE when ruby does this, and the fact that i didnt have to dummy run up and down the stairs from 12 wks was just an added bonus.

leila's frantically trying to find her thumb - i am actually hoping she does as the past couple weeks of dummy dancing we've been doing in the night has been driving me feckin :hissyfit: (insane!) She got it in this afternoon but doesnt have the hand and eye to get it in properly, its just pure luck at the moment :girllove:

ahhh, i think its lovely!

PVx

[shortyhmm]

Just re-read my post. It does sound like I'm not happy about the thumb sucking, must try to be more eloquant in future posts!

She does look adorable, she has the rest of her fingers wrapped over her nose and her other hand/arm behind her ear for some reason, but you want to hear the noise! I brought her back to our room as she woke early the other morning and she decided to suck her thumb. Believe me, if she was in our room permanently, we'd not need an alarm clock :lol:

PV, we have upstairs and downstairs dummies, bit it looks like they could be being made redundant soon!

[Helsbells]

Yeah - I wasnt being negative either really - I think she looks cute too and everyone comments on how lovely she looks. AND I love the fact that she sends herself to sleep without having to have the dummy put back into her mouth repeatedly. That used to drive us mad!

[miss.understood]

william is a little confussed if he is gonna thumb suck finger suck or dummie suck, bless him. he started off witha dummie loved that then he found his thumb and loved that, but he soon found that 1 thumb wasnt enough so 2 thumbs went in but this caused a small problem for him coz he couldnt rub his ear with the other hand. so he found his 2 middle fingers and sucked them. but he started getting very upset so i tried the dummie again and he didnt like the ones he used to but now has a xmas dummie, so sometimes now you might find poor william sucking a dummie and a thumb while rubbing his ear. is it any wonder my kids get confussed lol.

[Mrs Bunny]

Jacob is slowly but surely finding his thumb and tbh I will be over the moon when we can finally ditch the dummy. He has got so much better in the last couple of days.
He is a very noisy thumb sucker too, but am hoping this will calm down a bit.
I too was a thumb sucker (and like others still do when I am really tired, or when watching really scary doctor who episodes :loco: ) Its not done me any harm. I did have braces on my teeth but that was for too many teeth, not due to the thumb.
Mrs B