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to thumb suck or not to thumb suck?

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BocaDeTrucha · 05/01/2014 21:04

Ds (15 weeks) has finally got his coordination together and is enjoying the pleasures of sucking his thumb. He does have a dummy too but he's not that attached to it yet.

He is very sucky at the moment, not sure if it's early teething. My Mil was very quick to give her opinion on thumb sucking as something akin to devil worship but it seems like something he so naturally wants to do, especially when falling asleep. Is it really all that bad? I was a thumb sucker but never had a problem stopping. Am I making a problem for later on?

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adrianna1 · 07/01/2014 23:59

my son sucks his tongue.

That's worse than thumb sucking.

anothernumberone · 08/01/2014 00:03

My 4 year old started at 3 copying her cousin gah.

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