I was a thumb sucker till my adulthood and my teeth are fine. Alan did find his for abotu 3 week's, but it wore off and he went back to his dummy I found the dummy a pain as we were up during the night if he lost it. How ever like other's have said far easier to get rind of. My Mikey is a thumb sucker has been scince day one I am not worrid he only does it when he is tired or not feeling very well.
One thing I am getting from this thread is if your child is a thumb sucker be prepared for them to be sucking it alot longer than a dummy (not always in all cases of cause) but most admitted if they were a thumb sucker they were well past 5 - 6 years old - did someone say they did till adult hood and one got hypnitised to stop. Its very rare you see a 5 year old with a dummy and I have never seen a 10 year old or adult with a dummy. I am not judging and each to their own but all my kids have been dummy sucker and mostly only for bedtime and never had one past 2 years old. so I am very pro dummy and anti thumb (just my opinion)
You can take the dummy off a child - you can't the thumb
LOL my nana always gave my mum a hard time and reckoned she would end up with thumb suckers coz she wouldn't give us dummies. Mum always proved her wrong, none of us were thumb suckers - til my baby bro came along lol, and then nana never let her forget it!
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My dd was a chronic thumb sucker. At 4 we started telling her that big girls don't suck their thumbs during the day and she was only to suck it at bedtime. With a few nudges she got the daytime thing sorted and she self weaned herself off her nighttime sucking by the time she was 6 (before her adult teeth started coming in). Unlike friends whose children had dummies, Gem never lost her thumb in the night and was a fabulous sleeper. Oh, and we were doomed, she was sucking her thumb in her 20 week scan and found her thumb very early once born!!!
Rhyley (well actually all my kids) were comfort suckers - even the midwife at the home commented on that with Rhyley - hence the dummy.. and we sorted the losing dummy in the night by using a dummy holder so he could find it easy.
They have actually said that dummys can help with preventing sids due to them sucking all the time - sure this is probably the same with thumbs (but can't be sure)
I think this will be a life long debate and I think which ever one is best for the parent and what they are comfortable with. I had a friend who let her baby comfort suck on her finger (this is the parents finger) I was like OH my thats gonna be a hard one as they had 2 comforts - one the finger and 2 being held to sleep. But she is 2 and half and sleeps fine without the finger or the cuddles.
My little man use to have a dummy (it certainly had its purpose and worked well). But I've just gone through the process of getting rid of his dummy as he kept of losing it during the night...to a stage where I was getting up almost every hour to put it back in
He has since learnt how to self settle again
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