My DD has gone 21 hours without sucking her thumb!!

jnicks19

I'm so proud of her!  She's a pretty big thumb sucker, does it when she's tired, nervous, concentrating, in carseat etc.  We had a family talk and decided it would be great if she could stop before her 4th b-day in Oct.  She was okay with the decision.  We told her that she could try on her own or we could help her.  The first day or so on her own wasn't great.  She basically, has no control of it.  She does it without even noticing.  So I bought the yucky stuff that you paint on. 

So yesterday, we put it on.  I don't think she even minds the stuff that much but just knowing it's there seems to be working.  She has said to me "I don't know if i can do it mom".  I've just been keeping it really positive and lots of my family have called to tell her how proud of her they are.  She loves all the positive feedback and says she feels proud of herself as well!  She didn't even suck it going to sleep or in her bed at all last night! (I was watching her on the video monitor!)

Not to mention the fat dollhouse she'll get after quitting!!!

mrsleon-to-be

Where did you get that stuff?  We haven't had a sit down talk with DS but I've tried to mention occasionally that he needs to stop sucking his thumb with no success.  I just don't want him going to kindergarten sucking his thumb if we can help it.

shopgirl78

YAY!!

jnicks19

I got it at CVS, I had to ask and they only had one bottle and it was behind the pharm. counter.  It's actually called "thum".

We have had many casual "talks" about stopping but never really sat down and tried to find a "deadline" for it.  Plus, her little sis will be having a visit from the paci fairy next weekend (I'm keeping it for an overnight trip first!) so they're both giving something up.  I'm letting my oldest feel like she's the big sis for giving up the thumb and will be able to "help" little sis give up the paci.

Granted it's only been one day, I'm soooo hoping she keeps it up!!

VTSKIBUM

That's great...we weren't sure how to get DD to stop sucking her thumb...we went to her 3 yr check up and all the dr said was that dd should stop sucking her thumb by the time she was 4...after that day she has not sucked her thumb - she says its for babies...so any positive feedback you can give to your dd is great...sounds like she's doing well so far..best of luck..

Air_Force_Wife

That is great! DD sucks her two fingers all the time.  My DH decided she needed to stop (and while his reasons are valid, the fact she is touching things and then puts her fingers in her mouth and she could end up getting sick from it) his method of trying to get her to quit have not been good.  He sends her to time out, yells at her to take her fingers out of her mouth, etc.  As you can imagine 6 months later and we have no progress (in fact I have pointed out that I think it has gotten worse.)  And I get pissed at him for the way he is trying to get her to stop, and he thinks that I am just not supporting him on it and that is why she hasn't stopped.  I think we need to sit down and come up with a better plan, I think I will borrow some of the ideas from this post.

roseroseroseroserose

Air_Force_Wife:

That is great! DD sucks her two fingers all the time.  My DH decided she needed to stop (and while his reasons are valid, the fact she is touching things and then puts her fingers in her mouth and she could end up getting sick from it) his method of trying to get her to quit have not been good.  He sends her to time out, yells at her to take her fingers out of her mouth, etc.  As you can imagine 6 months later and we have no progress (in fact I have pointed out that I think it has gotten worse.)  And I get pissed at him for the way he is trying to get her to stop, and he thinks that I am just not supporting him on it and that is why she hasn't stopped.  I think we need to sit down and come up with a better plan, I think I will borrow some of the ideas from this post.

OMG.  He's making it worse.  Ahhhh.  Please talk to him.  If you don't want to, I will.