Thumb suckers!

Camdyn does every now and then.  But my sister did up until high school and there is nothing wrong with her mouth or teeth:) 

my daughter was sucking her thumb from an early age....so i gave her a pacifier instead.  i'd rather her get used to sucking on something i can take away from her

I have an Emma too, excellent name choice if I don't say so myself  :)  My girls did a little when they where younger but stopped around 12-14 months ish.

That's what I was going for too! But she doesn't want the paci now that  she found her thumbs.

Quoting lovemymarine306:

my daughter was sucking her thumb from an early age....so i gave her a pacifier instead.  i'd rather her get used to sucking on something i can take away from her

I am not saying you were an emotionally disturbed child so please dont get offended. Many children who dont voluntarily give up thumb sucking usually have an attachment issue and possibly should have been urged to transfer it to a lanket stuffed animal and so on most do this naturally this is why you dont see a majority of children doing it at 6. Fetus suck their thumbs in utero... it is silly to try to stop infants from thumb sucking and you can try but you may just end up reinforcing a behavior you may see fade in the first year any how. My dd sucked her thumb when she first "found" it then lost interest she is 7months now and doesnt at all... we also dont use pacifiers

both of my girls suck their thumbs. My oldest is now 9 and I think she quit a yr or so ago. It was only when she was tired though. Her teeth are fine and her dentist was never worried about them either. My youngest daughter is 6 and she sucks hers when she sleeps sometimes. Not very often either. I have never made a big deal out of it. Her teeth also are fine and the dentist isn't concerned. They say the only time the mess up the teeth is if they are forceful suckers. :) Neither of my sons sucked their thumbs. My girls tried to get my youngest son to suck his, and he wanted nothing to do with it.

My youngest is 2 he started doing it when he was born i tried everything i could 2 get him 2 quit & he wont he thinks its funny so i dunno !!!

I am very sad to admit this but my dd is 6 and hasn't topped yet. Her dr told me he did it until he was in the 7th grade and doesn't see anything wrong with it but I get so embarrased out in public and her older 31 yr old sister hates it b/c then her dd wants to do it and she broke her. So far so good no bad teeth but if she comes up with bad teeth we'll deal with it. Not much help for u I know sorry :(

dd will be 2 in december and she started out putting other fingers in her mouth..then she found her thumb.  We tried a pacifier too but she would just put them in at the same time!  I feel like her one tooth is getting messed up but I took her to the Dentist (for something else) and he said its fine not to try to take it out of her mouth.  He said after 3 or so they will start to address it. 

ALL DAY EVERY DAY MY SON KEEPS HIS LIL NASTY THUMB IN HIS MOUTH. hE IS 2 BY THE WAY MY OTHER TWO THUMB SUCKERS ARE 5 AND 7