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To worry about finger sucking?

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beetleinmysock · 23/08/2018 09:56

Ds is only 14 weeks and ebf.

He has occasionally sucked his thumb, and rejected dummies till a long car journey the other day.

I'd prefer him to find his thumb over a dummy really (i was a thumb sucker) but understand the pros and cons of both (and read both sides on mn!)

However - thumb is too small now apparently and he's definitely found his two middle fingers.

I once saw a child around 5 with a very pronounced over bite and sucking her fingers.

It's still early days but I'm just wondering if anyone had the same? Is it terrible or not something to worry about at this age?

If your child sucked their thumb did it start as fingers at all (hopefully!)

It's a tired/ hungry thing at the mo but clearly cheers him up.

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serbska · 23/08/2018 11:13

Mine sucks their whole fist. I've been advised it's a self soothing thing and pretty common.

My nice puts her whole hand in her mouth, it looks awful walking around at 3 with her hand shoved down her gob - having to be told to remove it to talk etc

SnuggyBuggy · 23/08/2018 11:31

I'm hoping she won't still be doing it at 3 years. I'm guessing as she gets older I'll start nagging.

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