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Many parents I know would hands down choose soother over thumb sucking.\u00a0The rationale usually is \u201ceventually I can take a soother away, but I can never take the thumb away.\u201d True, but your choice ends up being nights full of consolidated sleep (with the thumb) vs nights full of fragmented sleep (with the soother). If your baby uses his thumb to soothe at night, he will wake up briefly during the night (as we all do) and put himself back to sleep by sucking on his thumb.\u00a0Whereas, if your baby has a soother, he will likely be waking you up to put it back in his mouth for many months and possibly years to come.\u00a0The result will be fragmented sleep (broken sleep) for both your baby and YOU.\u00a0 Just think back to when you have had a restful sleep\u2026.it has been\u00a0consolidated (solid, uninterrupted) right? You definitely don\u2019t feel as refreshed when you have fragmented sleep because you are up numerous times through the night\u2026.the same is true for your baby.\u00a0Lets get your baby having consolidated sleep through the night, even if it is through thumb sucking.\u00a0If you are worried about breaking the thumb sucking habit later, there are many behavioural techniques that have been proven successful.\u00a0In fact, at 3yrs old, my own son broke his thumb sucking habit with a behavioural chart in less than two weeks.\u00a0I didn\u2019t use any Tabasco or bridges in his mouth to eliminate the habit, like my old-school parents told me I would have to do!<\/p>\n
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Many parents I know would hands down choose soother over thumb soother babysucking. The rationale usually is \u201ceventually I can take a soother away, but I can never take the thumb away.\u201d True, but your choice ends up being nights full of consolidated sleep (with the thumb) vs nights full of fragmented sleep (with the soother). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n