Why do three-month-old babies suck their fingers?

The phenomenon that babies always like to suck their fingers has troubled many parents because they don’t understand why their babies have this behavior, and they don’t know how to effectively help them change such behavior and habits. Now let us analyze for parents why three-month-old babies have the behavior and habit of sucking their fingers, as well as effective ways to stop and correct it.

Sucking fingers in infants is not only harmless, but also a signal of their intellectual development and a dual psychological and physiological need. Sucking fingers is a form of learning and playing, and it also stabilizes one's own emotions. What parents need to do is to keep the baby's hands clean and keep the area around the baby's lips clean and dry to avoid eczema. Parents can often stroke and swing their children to divert their attention from sucking their fingers, or put toys in their hands to tease them and occupy their hands so that they have no time to suck their fingers. If a child is three or four years old and still sucks his fingers frequently, it is bad behavior and the need to carefully understand the reasons and patiently correct them is necessary.

It is okay to get your baby to break the habit of licking things, but the method should be mainly to correct or guide her from the side, and you should not stop her directly when she does it, because this will only stimulate her curiosity. After you stop her, she may not do it again in a short period of time, but when you are not around, she may become more serious and finally develop to a serious level that is difficult to control.

When he is licking, you can use things around or interesting things to divert her attention. The most important thing is not to let her find that you are deliberately stopping her. This method can not only effectively stop some "bad habits" that may be harmful to the baby's body and mind, but also enhance the understanding between parents and children.

Parents and friends should pay attention to the fact that some behavioral habits and actions of babies when they are young may be some stress responses of their bodies. So if they have some bad habits, they should be corrected in time, because the earlier the correction, the better the effect.