advice on finger sucking please
my 2 week old daughter is proving to be quite difficult to soothe. The only thing that seems to stop her crying and get her to sleep is to let her suck on my little finger. The midwife and health visitor have advised us that this is not a good idea as it's a bad habbit to get into and also for hygene reasons. I've tried a dummy but she's not interested. I'm not looking forward to a night without "the finger" . Has anyone had the same problem? I would be grateful of any advice.
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As long as you wash your hands in a normal hygiene routine i can't see anything wrong with it, after all what did our mum's do with us when we were babies, no ill effects happened to us!
vikki xx
My hv said it was ok and even if it was 'against the rules' i'd do whatever i needed to soothe my baby.
If you really want to get them to use a dummy try different types as the teat shapes are different, my lo is using the tommee tippee closer to nature bottles so I got him the dummy that goes with them as it is a similar shape to his bottles.
Go with your instincts - us mummies usually know best!
Liz xx
Hello, sorry to hijack an old post but my 3 month old daughter will also only go to sleep when sucking my finger. I feel quite stressed that we are stopping her from ever self-settling by continuing to get her to sleep in this way but every time we try something else (shh-pat, spaced soothing etc) it doesn't work as so we resort to letting her sucthine of our fingers again. We have tried to get her to take dummys, very occasionally she will, but no real success. jules - how did things end up with you?