Thumb Sucking in the Breastfed Baby (Mom-to-Mom #16)
November 3, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under Mom-to-Mom, breastfeeding
When my first two daughters had the need to suck, I would either have them continue to do non-nutritive sucking at the breast (which feels like light sucking in a fluttering kind of way, not the harder suck-swallow pattern). If they didn’t want to nurse, my husband or I would offer a clean finger to suck, turning the pad of the finger to the roof of the baby’s mouth. Neither of my first two would take a pacifier except to chew on it, hence our calling pacifiers “choo choos.” Neither of them ever learned to suck their thumbs.
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