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amother
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 Tue, Jan 09 2024, 10:40 pm
| BrisketBoss wrote: | A) How old is your other kid?
B) No need to project them onto this kid
C) It's years before dentists start to become concerned
D) You're not likely to get rid of anyone's bad habit by attacking it directly. Think: what need is this fulfilling? |
A) why does this matter
B) what do you mean by this? I'm just trying if there is a way I can stop the habit now
C) that's not the point here
D) that's exactly what I'm doing - redirecting to whatever it is that its filling in for (tired-rock to sleep, hungry-eat, bored-change of toy or place, etc)
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amother
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Tue, Jan 09 2024, 10:44 pm
| Iymnok wrote: | Pacifier. Keep putting it in.
Thumb habits are hard to break and cause orthodontal damage. I sucked till age 8 and my daughters till ages 9 and 11.
It’s NOT a blessing. |
I guess this, together with redirecting.
I'll give it to him randomly during the day for a few min until he leard that it's meant ot suck not chew...
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amother
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Tue, Jan 09 2024, 10:45 pm
| amother Oleander wrote: | | As someone who also tried to he adamant about not getting started on the thumb because of one child who was a thumbsucker until 8: there's really not much you can do at this age. Babies need to suck (in fact, the shores for sucking is literally in the Hebrew word for baby!) You can try to push a pacifier, but if he doesn't go for it, he doesn't go for it. Leave it be for now. However, I do wish I'd been more aggressive about stopping before age 2. So I'd work on it closer to then. |
Thanks.
How would you stop at 2?
Still hoping though he'll stop..
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amother
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Tue, Jan 09 2024, 10:47 pm
| amother Razzmatazz wrote: | | Check for posterior hidden tongue ties. Thumb sucking can be an instinctive attempt to stimulate the vagus nerve or compensatory behavior for oral restrictions. |
That's interesting. Would a good lactation consultant notice that?
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amother
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Tue, Jan 09 2024, 10:48 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | That's interesting. Would a good lactation consultant notice that? | Only if they're tongue tie literate.
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