Baby eating thumb

There are many superstitious beliefs among the Chinese people, and many people believe in these superstitious beliefs. Especially for families with children, they often speculate the gender of the next child based on a series of symptoms in the child. Because pregnant parents are eager to know whether they are pregnant with a boy or a girl, so if their first child is going to eat their thumb, what will be the gender of the next child?

If you guess whether the second child is a boy or a girl based on the fact that “children eat their thumbs first when they suck their fingers”, it is really a joke among strange things. Medical science has proven that only when the Y sex chromosome of the male and the X sex chromosome of the female combine by chance can a boy be conceived successfully, otherwise a girl will be conceived. As a pregnant woman, the chances of having a boy or a girl are 50-50.

How to stop baby from sucking his fingers

1. Find out the cause and prescribe the right remedy

For children, if it is due to incorrect feeding methods, they should be trained to have regular eating habits, with fixed food quantities and a sense of moderation in hunger and fullness; if it is due to loneliness and other reasons, children should be given some interesting toys to give them the opportunity to play with adults or other children, and to cultivate their interest in the environment and games, so as to divert their attention and gradually correct such bad habits; if the body is lacking in trace elements such as zinc and iron, it is best to take the child for a trace element test first, and then give the corresponding treatment method.

2. Relaxed and warm family environment

Parents can create a relaxed and warm family environment for their children, which will help them release stress. When interacting with their children, parents should smile, speak in a relaxed tone, squat down to talk to them, and maintain an equal posture with the baby, all of which will help meet the children's various emotional needs. Appropriately improving the requirements for children, not being too strict with them, not over-emphasizing competition, not putting pressure on them, not demanding perfection from them, etc., will also help create a warm, comfortable, stable and relaxed growth atmosphere for your baby.

3. Correct education, avoid being rude

Thumb sucking and nail biting are natural in early childhood and should not be simply prohibited as this will reinforce the behavior and make them feel more nervous. Only by actively providing a variety of interesting things to do, such as handicrafts, games, etc., and not viewing them from an adult's perspective, can their confusion be naturally resolved and these bad habits be prevented from developing.

Therefore, it is harmful and useless to forcibly stop such children's bad habits. Ridiculing, mocking, intimidating, beating and scolding are even more inappropriate. Doing so will only make the child more nervous and anxious, and even cause unhealthy psychological problems such as inferiority complex and loneliness.