thumb sucking

[2CheekyMonkeys]

i have noticed that my DD tries to suck her fingers/hand but she isnt quite co--ordinated enough to get them in the right place and leave it there. so, just wondering if she is going to be a thumb sucker is it something that develops over time as they get more co-ordinated or is it something that happens right from the beginning? (i dont really care either way if she does or doesnt, just interested really).

[Olive]

DD1 started at 10 weeks until this year when we stopped it due to dental issues. DD2 is trying her hardest to get her thumb is but still missing

[catherinemoses]

My son is a dummy boy but goes for the thumb when the dummy is not around. I found that he didn't really get the hang of it until he was probably 9 or 10 mths old but that could be because of the dummy?

[Nai]

DD1 never thumb sucked. DD2 found hers last week and is giving it a red hot go! She can find it pretty much all the time now.

[JordieC]

Mackenzie started sucking hers round about 4 months - it used to be for a bout 10 secs before falling alseep and now it's for a few minutes when upset or before sleep.

[Heaven]

DD is obsessed with her hands at the moment, constantly sucking them but hasn't got the thumb in there yet.

[Tinks]

Some kids do suck their fingers instead of their thumbs. I was a thumb sucker from birth until I was about 8 or 9. My parents tried everything they could to get me to stop (putting rotten tasting cream on it, bandaging it up etc) but I eventually just grew out of it. I have no dental problems from it. I think it's the kids who hook their thumb under their teeth who have issues later in life.

I actually saw DS sucking his thumb on the ultrasound video. I was convinced he was going to be a thumb sucker but he wasn't.