What are some tips to help your baby stop sucking his fingers?

Many mothers know that their babies will develop the habit of sucking their fingers when they reach a certain age. Hands touch many things every day, which is very unhygienic. Sucking fingers is very dirty and may cause the baby to become sick. Therefore, it is very necessary to change the baby's habit of sucking his fingers. The reason why babies suck their fingers is that when they reach a certain age, their teeth will grow and they will grind their teeth, so they will suck their fingers. If you want your baby to quit the habit of sucking his fingers, you can use something else to replace the hands, such as a teething stick. Or improve it in some other aspects.

1. Correction method

For children who have developed the unhygienic habit of sucking their fingers, the reasons for this bad habit should be found out. If it is due to improper feeding method, the wrong feeding method should be corrected first to overcome the bad feeding habit. Children should be taught to develop regular eating habits, eat at regular times and in regular amounts, and know when to eat when hungry or full.

2. Parents need to be patient

Calmly correct your child's thumb sucking behavior. For this type of children, it is important to avoid using simple and rough educational methods. Do not laugh at, threaten, beat, scold, or use coercive methods such as tying their arms or wearing cots. Because doing so is not only ineffective, but will also make children feel painful, depressed, emotionally nervous and uneasy, and even cause inferiority complex and loneliness. And given the opportunity, the child will want to suck his fingers more, making the bad behavior of sucking fingers stubborn.

3. Understand your baby’s needs

The best way to do this is to understand whether the child's needs are being met. In addition to meeting children's physiological needs (such as hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and sleep), we should enrich children's lives, give them some interesting toys, and give them more opportunities to play. We should also provide favorable conditions to allow children to participate in more outdoor activities and play with their friends, so that their lives can be fulfilling and lively. Distract attention from inherent habits, maintain a happy and lively mood, and give children psychological satisfaction.

4. Develop good hygiene habits from an early age

Don't let your children suck their fingers for fun. Patiently explain to them that sucking fingers is unhygienic. It will not only cause swelling and pain in the fingers, affect the development of the sacrum and deform the teeth, but also easily bring a lot of dirt into the mouth, causing digestive system diseases and other infectious diseases.

5. Stop it in time

Whenever a child sucks his fingers, you should look at him with a stern look and say in a firm tone: "No!" At the same time, distract the child. When the finger-sucking behavior decreases, you should encourage and praise him in time, and explain to the child that as long as he can reduce and control this behavior, he will be rewarded. This kind of "positive reinforcement" treatment can have obvious results.