Why does the baby suck his fingers when sleeping?

The question I want to discuss with you today is why babies suck their fingers when they sleep. Many people are first-time mothers, so when faced with problems they don’t understand, expectant mothers feel at ease because they don’t know whether the problems they encounter are normal. Is it normal for children to always put their hands in their mouths when they sleep? Today let’s talk about the problem of babies sucking their fingers while sleeping.

This is a form of comfort for the baby, just like some babies need to hold a doll to sleep, and some need to hold their mother's ears to sleep. Find a comfort object for the baby, let the baby slowly adapt to and like to hold this comfort object to sleep, and the fingers will be freed. When a baby is just born, when his lips touch the mother's nipple, he will spontaneously make sucking movements to feed the milk. This is a physiological sucking reflex. When they are hungry, anything their lips touch will trigger a sucking reflex, and they will even spontaneously suck when they are asleep.

When they are a little older, most babies (90% of infants) will put their fingers in their mouths and suck them when they are hungry. This is a normal phenomenon and parents don’t need to worry too much about it.

After 2 to 3 years old, the baby will ask for food when he is hungry, and this finger sucking phenomenon will gradually disappear.

If your baby is 4 years old and still sucks his fingers, or even bites his nails, quilt corners, or clothes cuffs, it may be a behavioral problem that needs correction.

The above is some relevant content about babies sucking their fingers while sleeping. I hope it can help everyone. In addition, expectant mothers must also pay attention. If the baby's thumb sucking habit cannot be corrected for a while, they must always pay attention to the hygiene of the baby's hands and wash hands frequently, because there are many bacteria on the hands, which is not good for the baby's physical development. When the baby is sleeping, the mother can hold the child's hands and help the child slowly correct the habit of sucking his fingers.