Does your baby suck on his/her hands or fingers? I breastfeed Hannah on demand around the clock, so I'm pretty sure that this isn't related to hunger. We took her out in the sling and she fell asleep and was sucking on her finger and thumb. Too cute! I've heard that babies on ultrasounds have been seen sucking their thumbs.

Kharissa was my only thumb sucker. She did it from very early on, maybe even day one. She just found it and would comfort herself that way. She was 'broke' of it before 1 yr.
Anyway, she was my only one. None of the boys ever did anything like that. Nothing beyond the teething chewing/mouthing on fingers kind of stuff.

Dainyah sucks on her hands a little bit. It is a comfort thing. They say that babies need the "non-nutritive sucking" to develop socially all right. Not sure if I agree with that totally (but then, I am rather shy and backwards in that regard, and my mom would slap my hands if they went in my mouth and I wasn't allowed to have a paci either, so I don't know if that is part related or what...).

Dainyah won't even take a paci. We have tried because at night she would want to nurse for two hours straight. I know she wasn't sucking in the way she does to eat, and it caused bruises. It hurt. She hasn't done that in a week now (PTL!). She did take one when she was in the hospital. At night, she tried the whole sucking on mom thing so mom can't leave me alone in the nursery after they kept me thing (smart girl). She took it twice there, that was it. She knows the difference between cold plastic/rubber materials and a nice warm mommy.

She's fussy now. Shouldn't have eaten the pizza last night. Tomatoes do not agree with her. I should have remembered that. It is going to be a long day.

Pizza seems to be a common ailment for breastfed babies. I went on 3-4 days of boring, non-allergenic food once. At the end of the 4th day, I ate pizza. She cried and fussed until 3:30 in the morning. I've never had the courage to eat pizza since then. However, I can eat dairy products or tomato products in other forms, so maybe there's something about the combo in the pizza that bothers her.....

My first one just nursed for comfort...never sucked on a paci or thumb. My 2nd one nursed for comfort and sucked her thumb and never had a paci. It's like you have to train them to use the paci, but thumb sucking comes naturally for some.

My 1st ds loved his pacifier, but Micah never really cared for it and he doesn't use one! He sucked on his hands a lot when he was smaller he would get the whole hand in there :shock: :lol: He will still suck on a finger but he has never been a thumb sucker.
He isn't breastfed anymore but he still loves getting a bottle. I am kind of glad he doesn't like the pacifier as I like not having to remember taking it with me or trying to figure out where it is??

My DS didn't do anything but nurse... all the time. I didn't put either of my kids on schedules. DD seemed to constantly want to suck. She actually would suck on her two fingers but has seemed to stop. I believe she did this while she was teething.

my first loved to suck, even before she was born. when she came out she had littlebruises up the inside of her arm. she had given herself small hickeys , while inside.
my second would have nothing to do with a soother, as soon as it went inside his mouth he would gag. had something to do with his gag reflux and his reflux of the stomach.
my third, only moments after birth found her 3 fingers on her hand and sucks those, even today when she is tired or upset she will suck those fingers, she would not take a soother. she is 22 months and she still sucks her fingers and twirls her hair with the other hand. not sure how to break her of the finger habit. the dentist said that this was the worst kind of finger sucking that a child can do. they figured that she would stop when she got her molars in, but instead her fingers get red and raw from them. anyone have any ideas.
my two that would not take soothers did much better at soothing themselves back to sleep, when they woke up during the night.

Bobert was sucking his thumb on every u/s. We thought he'd be a thumb sucker for sure, but he wasn't! None of my kids ever wanted anything to do with a pacifier. They all sucked/chewed their fingers, thumbs, hands when they were teething.

My DS sucks on his fingers, but not necessarily when he's sleeping. As for my DD, she never sucked on anything. I was her human pacifier, she was latched a lot.