Will a dummy sucker turn into a thumb sucker??!

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I'm thinking of taking my DC's dummy away (he's nearly 3) but worried he might take to sucking his thumb. I'd rather a dummy sucker than a thumb sucker, having been a thumb sucker myself
Anyone had experience of this or do I have an overactive imagination?

I had a dummy until age 3, then sucked my thumb until I was 15

Very lucky I didn't fuck my teeth up.

Neither of mine did and both loved their dummies

My DD has sucked her thumb for the last 6 months since I took dummy away, and the dentist has noticed already.

Nope, once the dummy went, never sucked his thumb. Dummy till recently and he's nearly 3.

My daughter was madly in love with her dummy, but when we took it away at 2 she never sucked her thumb.

Mine didn’t and she was nearly 4 before I took it away.

No. My eldest DD had a dummy for 4 years and didn't suck her thumb after I took it away.
Youngest DD was born a thumb sucker and still is and never had a dummy

Thumb sucking caused me £4k in orthodonticts.

My eldest one didn't convert to thumb, middle 2 were thumb suckers (horrific getting one of them to quit), youngest one started thumb sucking instead so gave her the dummy back - she then ditched it aged 7 but didn't suck her thumb.

Mine did but she was 3months

No, it's one or the other, or nothing at all apart from a manky motheaten blanket

Nope, ditched the dummy at 2.5 and the thumb has not been deemed a suitable replacement

Am 35 & still suck my fingers sometimes there I said it

The dummy & the fingers aren’t linked. Otherwise every kid would be a thumb sucker

DD naturally stopped using her dummy at about 18 months (maybe the odd occasion after that until around 2). We had no thumb sucking at all when her dummy was taken away. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her suck her thumb to be honest. She did go through a bit of a sleeve chewing stage at around 5/6/7 when she was anxious or nervous- the poor school cardigans took the worst of it.

I think thumb sucking is just one of those things that some children will naturally want to do and others won’t. A thumb sucker might be distracted by a dummy but will revert to the thumb when there is no dummy around. If your child was a thumb sucker before (or alongside) the dummy then there is a good chance they will go back when you take the dummy away, if your child has never really been the sort to suck their thumb then they probably won’t. Not sure there is much you can do stop it.

My Dd didn't,and she had a dummy up until the age of 3! From what I've witnessed with friends and relatives children,none of the ones who've had a dummy started thumb sucking when they stopped using a dummy. V

2 dummy suckers who never sucked their thumbs

One thumb sucker who kept going til she was 17, it did damage her teeth and the orthodontist wouldn’t give her a brace til she stopped

Dh sucked his thumb til he was 11

The first night of boarding school cured him of that

Poor little sod

No. But I waited untill my son naturally outgrew the need himself so that might have something to do with it. He was almost 5.

My dummy sucker is not a thumb sucker.

Only had his dummy at nap/night time and refused to give it up until the day before his 4th birthday when he took it out of his mouth, said "I don't need this anymore" and put it in the bin