Eating her fist- advice please

[kentishtown]

Hello, does anyone have advice please for 1st time mum and dad?
DD is 2 months old and she has started VERY avidly chewing her fist/fingers, to the point her index goes all red! She's not hungry, seems to do it most when tired.
My question is: is this normal? is it a bad habit we should in some way (how??) discourage? or just go with the flow?

Just go with it. There is nothing you can do and at this age no bad habits. She's just tired and doing whatever feels ok.

Personally would think she was hungry , are you sure she's not?

But, otherwise no, don't worry about it.

Chewing fist would indicate hunger to me but trying to suck fingers/thumb would be more of a comfort thing. Which do you think it is?

This is totally normal...Both my dds have done this, and almost every other baby i see does it. Usually when a little hungry, but they also do it when they start to feel their teeth coming through, or just bored, etc. Nothing to discourage or worry about. At all.

Both mine have done it too - they just like sucking/chewing. Dummy?

Am pretty sure she's not hungry, as she does it even when just off breast and normally when hungry makes this very clear with hungry cry/rooting. Always been very "sucky" baby (certainly no probs latching on). In fact sucking thumb on 20 week scan!
It is mostly her index finger she'd going for. Interestingly my mum says both me and my brother sucked our index finger.. weird hah?
We've been giving her dummy to go to sleep, taking it out as she nods off.
Now she is sometimes knocking dummy out to replace with fist/fingers....Maybe this is good

if she's definitely not hungry i would have thought an early start to teething, but don't think there is much need to worry