Hello!
I have recently started sleep training baby so she can fall asleep independently. She is 5 months old and sleeps great at night, we occasionally would give her a pacifier to help settle her for day time naps (but not consistently) and she doesn’t always take it / spits it out often.
Now that I have started going the sleep training she has started thumb sucking after a period of crying. I used to be a thumb sucker when I was younger so would prefer for her to use the pacifier rather than thumb.
I have tried going into the room and giving her the pacifier rather than thumb but she spits it out as soon as I leave the room, starts crying and goes back to thumb when she can’t find pacifier.
the thumb does soothe her and gets her to sleep - I wanted to see how common this is amongst babies and likely she will grow out of this on her own? I sucked my thumb until I was 4 years old … I broke my arm and only stopped because I broke my arm and couldn’t get to it with a cast!
is this nothing to worry about and carry on with the training or should I wait a while and settle her more to avoid the thumb sucking habit taking hold!