My 6 month old is sucking her thumb....

My daughter is 6 and I am only just breaking her of the habit now. She has started losing her teeth and I told her that if she keeps sucking her thumb, her 'grown up' teeth will come through and stick out at the front. This has seemed to work......plus bribery hehe I was determined when she was a baby to let her have a dummy (pacifier), but after a while she refused to take it and sucked her thumb instead. Afterall, it is a natural instinct from in the womb for a baby to suck it's thumb. I also found that the more I told my daughter to take her thumb out of her mouth, the more she would suck it. It's a comforting thing. I would just leave you daughter for now. She has decided that she prefers her thumb over a dummy and there is nothing you can do to change that.

Inshallah take it from someone who had a thumb-sucking younger sister addicted all her life. It will affect her upper and lower jaw formation, pushes out her front teeth (buck teeth), her thumb becomes an odd shape as opposed to the other. Her thumb's skin will be alligator-like as she gets older. SHe'll be teased by others because she'll automatically suck her thumb from habit and not realize it and still does. My experienced 50 yr old sister says STOP HER NOW while young and give her a pacifier instead. Oh yes, the sucking is a horrible sound to hear at night from her room - the older she gets, the louder... like an old squeaky door.

Try giving her a paci. I know you think it is silly but it will be easier to break her from the paci then sucking her thumb. My sister is 30somehting years old and every now and then she catches herself sucking her thumb. That and her teeth may suffer later down the road. Good Luck

Assalamu Alaikum, Well I think you should stop her because this might bring denture problems in the future. I remember oneday taking my son to the Pediatrician. In my case, my son liked to have on the pacifier all the time . So the pediatrician said: "Try to take it away from him as soon as possible. Do you want meto show you picturesof some of my patients with their teeth turned forwards and up". I said: "Noooo!" I took itaway from him andhe tried to suck his fingers but Alhamdulillah he didn't keep doing it. Please stop your daughter. My suggestion is, try to put something in her finger, something that might taste funny to her.

I wouldn't stop her. I sucked my thumb when I was little and I'm not doing it now. I'm sure she'll be fine. It's a comfort and hey, I have a child that won't let go of the pacifier at night so I'm going to have to take it away soon. At least you won't have to take it away from her.

My son is almost 2, and he still sucks his thumb. Personally, I don't see a problem with it, but some people do. My mother thinks that he's too old to be sucking his thumb. I could care less. It makes him happy, it keeps him calm, it helps him fall asleep. Perhaps if he's still sucking his thumb when he's 3, I'll try and force him to stop, but for now, I'm just going to let him be. Think of it this way: How many kindergarteners suck their thumbs?? Not many. So don't worry about it yet. I'd say that she's still way to young to force her to stop. Besides, how are you going to explain to a 6 month old that she shouldn't be sucking her thumb? How would you stop her? It's kind of pointless.

It can become a bad habit but right no she is young you dont wnat her growing up doing it. I knoe som people that are 15 years old and still do it! So I can understand where your mom is coming from!

Right away- I think I would try to give her a pacifier because it will be much easier to get rid of later You can't get rid of her thumb, but you CAN send her pacifier to some magical places and that seems to work great for all kids! Good Luck!

That is really up to you to decide that one....but thumb sucking can be a very hard habit to break down the track. I personally preferred a dummy, it was much easier to take away when I felt they no longer needed it. If you are happy with your daughter sucking her thumb I would leave her be.

YEA I KNOW IT IS CUTE BUT AS CUTE AS IT IS ITS NOT GOOD MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT IF YOU LET BABIES SUCK ON THEIR THUMB FOR TOO LONG(MONTHS-YEARS) IT COULD CAUSE THEIR FRONT TEETH TO STICK OUT LIKE BUCK TOOTH lol SORRY BUT ITS TRUE SO IF YOU STOP HER NOW IT WOULD BE BETTER SO SHE WONT GET INTO A BAD HABBIT OF IT , AND HAVE A HARD TIME STOPPING HER LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD!!

I have a son who is nearly 2 and I have just taken his dummy away. He woke up a few more times through the night for a few nights and now he is fine. It is easier to get rid of a dummy than a thumb. I always stopped my kids from sucking their thumbs because I was worried about the damage to their teeth. I don't know if thumb sucking really does cause damage or not but I just didn't want to take a risk.

Ppl Always told me that baby who suck on their thunb they would have big front teeth or so but its cute for now just dont let her do it when she starts teething

your kid is only 6 months old i say let her suck her thumb,yes it does avict teeth and she still can be sucking her thumb well later into live,i would rather it be her thumb than a paci as ive seen children about 5 yrs old still on them

I wouldn't worry about it. My daughter went through a very breif stage of thumb sucking and never did it again. Sometimes it helps them fall asleep. :)

It is a bad habit but right know she is young and you dont want her to get addicted to it. i still se 15 tears old doing it!

I was and am, till today, very orally fixated. I smoke (constantly), bite my nails and, yes, even in my 20's still suck my thumb to the point where I have obvious bucked teeth that stick out even when I close my mouth. My parents spent years trying to stop me and I believe that, instead, their efforts ingrained my habit even more. So, if you'd ask me, I'd say leave it alone and hope that it will stop on its own. My teeth grew in that way because I had my thumb in my mouth almost all the time. I think all those efforts to stop me caused me to start smoking at 12!