Hand sucking - hungry or just likes sucking them?

[Tweedledeedum]

My ebf pfb is 7 weeks old and this week has discovered sucking his hands, and very noisily at that! I've always read that this is a sign of hunger, but even after a big feed with both breasts he's sucking away at a fist a few minutes later... so I try to feed him again, he'll sometimes suck a little but doesn't seem very interested. Just wondering if he's telling me he's still hungry or if he's just enjoying his new discovery?

Sounds like he just enjoys it! My pfb is 10 weeks and can be found chewing anything he can get his hands on, even when he's definitely not hungry!

Some babies just like sucking. Be glad he's managing to comfort himself. If he was hungry he'd become frustrated that he wasn't getting anything and cry.

I would offer the breast any time I saw him doing it. If he is hungry or just needs to suck, he will take it and if he's not then he won't!

I did this with ds2 whenever I saw hin sucking his thumb and I think I managed to prevent him becoming a thumb sucker because he stopped doing it fairly quickly.

My dd2 used to do this. We have a photo of her hours old, sucking her two middle fingers. She is now a thumb sucker, but only does it when she's tired/sleeping for comfort. She's going to be one on Tuesday :)

Thanks wise ones, just that every man and his dog also points out he's doing it and tells me he must be hungry as if I must not have fed him for days, feel like I'm a bad mother! Goose you are right, nothing much is going to come out of those fists so I guess he would let me know....

I think it's just a stage. Mine have done that too, and at some point they just stop doing it. Goose is right - hungry babies cry!

He just likes it. If he were hungry he would be sucking them and crying.