ya it soothes him but its pushing out his teeth a bit and he has sores on his thumbs.
2007-01-24 17:10:26 · 4 answers · asked by SARcasm,RN 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
this may seem mean, but try putting a little soap on the thumb he sucks on. or something sour, such as italian dressing.
it will be tough to rid the habit. my brother is almost 7 and still sucks his thumb. my daughter wanted to be a thumb sucker but i stopped her. but she's only 10 months now i give her a pacifier.
2007-01-26 04:17:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My stepdaughter is almost 5 and she sucks her thumb too. A while ago her mother put hot sauce on her finger and honestly…it scared the living hell out of the kid. She’s scarred from hot sauce….we pulled it out the other day and the kid had a meltdown. So of course, every child is different, but this didn’t stop her from sucking her thumb. She turned to other fingers…. However, recently we’ve tried stickers on the thumb. For her we bought princesses. Buy him something like Spiderman or whatever he enjoys. Bandaids also work too and give him one warning to stop sucking the thumb then put the sticker or bandaid over it. If he sucks the sticker or bandaid, it’ll taste nasty. My stepdaughter kept telling me that the sticker was hurting and itchy. So I told her I’d do it too and let her know if it was really itchy or if she was just trying to get me to take it off. Well, I woke up with my sticker still on my thumb and told her it didn’t hurt me at all. She was a little mad that she didn’t get away with it. She often comes up with excuses that it hurts her, that she promises she won’t suck her thumb anymore and the key is to NOT feed into it. Just this alone has made her more aware that she’s sucking her thumb and as much as she loves Princesses, she doesn’t like the sticker because other kids ask her why and she gets embarrassed when she has to say why. This has worked for us quite well. However, nothing happens overnight…. Best of luck! It’s quite the battle
2016-05-24 06:38:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
little bit of hot sauce or a food he doesn't like i'm actually suckin my thumb to keep it warm but you can ignore the part about me get him a teether or a pacifier
2007-01-26 11:43:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried a binky/pacifier?
2007-01-24 19:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by tony1athome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋