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Originally posted by Ritz
Any idea how to prevent them from sucking their thumb? Little Ritz is addicted to his pacifier, which is at least one of those supposedly orthodontic ones, whenever I try to take the thing away, he sucks his thumb. I can't decide which is worse the thumb or the pacifier. Any ideas for how to get him to do away with both - he's not two yet.
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Most kids outgrow thumb sucking on their own but some don't, or at least not for a long time. It was a long, hard struggle to get her to stop, and even when she stopped sucking during the day, she sucked in her sleep until she was six. With our second, every time her thumb went near her mouth we would take it out. After a week or two she never tried anymore. She wasn't really into the pacifier much.
