What should I do if my baby sucks his fingers for two months?

As the baby grows day by day, there will always be various problems that the parents who take care of the baby don’t know how to deal with. For example, when the baby is two months old, he will suck his fingers, which makes parents particularly worried. They are afraid that the baby will suck some bacteria in the stomach and cause stomach pain and diarrhea. However, the baby’s hands are often taken out of the mouth and then eaten again. Parents often don’t know how to take better care of the baby. Let’s learn about what to do if the baby sucks his fingers at two months old.

What should I do if my baby sucks his fingers for two months?

1. Cultivate your baby's regular eating habits

For babies 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. It is necessary to cultivate regular eating habits for your baby, ensure that he eats at regular times and in regular amounts, and knows when he is hungry or full.

2. Correct the baby patiently and do not force him/her

Parents should correct their children's finger sucking behavior patiently and calmly. 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 baby will want to suck his fingers more, making the bad behavior of sucking fingers stubborn.

3. Understand and try to meet 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 the baby's physiological needs (such as hunger, thirst, cold, heat, and sleep), we should enrich the baby's life and give him some interesting toys so that he has more opportunities to play. We should also provide favorable conditions to allow babies 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 the baby psychological satisfaction.

4. Teach your baby to develop hygienic habits from an early age

Develop good hygiene habits from an early age. Do not let your baby suck his fingers for fun. Patiently tell your baby 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. Reward your baby appropriately

Whenever your baby sucks his fingers, you should look at him sternly and say in a firm tone: No! "At the same time, distract the baby's attention. When the finger sucking behavior is reduced, timely encouragement and praise should be given, and the baby should be explained that as long as this behavior can be reduced and controlled, he will be rewarded. This kind of positive reinforcement" treatment can have obvious results.

The above is an introduction to what to do if a baby is two months old and sucks his thumbs. After understanding it, we know that we must master certain methods when a baby is two months old and sucks his thumbs. We cannot forcibly pull our hands out of the baby's mouth, as this can easily cause damage to the baby's self-esteem. In addition, we must wash the baby's hands frequently to prevent the baby from sucking bacteria in his mouth, which can easily lead to the occurrence of disease.