I have often wondered if the attachment that adults have to the neck of bottles and sippers is a left over thumb or nipple sucking reflex!!
Mine is healthy
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From: Ruth Cantrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] thumb not dummy Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:20:12 +1000 Everyone has a personal opinion and or experience of thumb and or dummy. Most interesting. someone said "mothers get put under too much pressure to do or not to do one. Uhmm Is marketing and advertising considered as pressure??? Dummies, pacifiers, soothers everywhere - in gifts to new mothers in magazines on supermarket and chemist shelves. One would think it a normal human phenomena yet fingers and thumbs were created way long before the plastic thing. From an academic point have you all seen and read Binns, C & Scott, J, (2002) Using pacifier: what are breastfeeding mothers doing? Breastfeeding Review, 10 (2) 21-25 so yes there are many facets to this topic and each parent needs to weigh up the evidence and blend to their individual parenting style. From a personal view point. Our family has a history of thumb sucking 3 out of 4 girls in a family of six were thumb suckers. 1 out of 2 of my daughters also was a thumb sucker (the other would suck only the breast) from birth and possibly in utero. Based on my knowledge (at the time) of coping and behavioral development of children I gradually and gently coaxed my 4 year old to stop sucking her thumb 1st in the day time by keeping busy and distracting and sticker rewards and eventually at night time by sticker chart rewards etc. If I had my time again I would not do that. That kind of management can be perceived by some child temperament types as nagging and who knows what else. I would leave her be and just show her love acceptance and validity and lead her to make the decision more at her own pace. I have known of adults who traded a dummy or thumb for smoking or other harmful substances. In comparison a thumb or dummy sucking habit is quite harmless and not disgusting at all as we seem to perceive it is after some certain age. that's my input on this topic anyway Ruth Ruth Cantrill > From: "Maternity Ward Mareeba Hospital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:42:55 +1000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] thumb not dummy > > I would have to agree with the genetic aspect. My mum needed braces as did I > (not a thumbsucker) and my next sister also not a thumbsucker but the brother > who was a thumbsucker had great teeth. Then my daughter who sucked until > around 8 yrs old also needed braces and surgery for an oral cyst. Must admit, > by that time I wished the thumb was a dummy so I could throw it away. I was > dead against dummies but now, am not so sure. Thumbs also get really dirty by > the time the child becomes self-propelled. > Judy >
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