Liz was never that excited about thumb sucking. In hindsight I have wondered if a bink would have helped with her early colic. Sarah was a thumb sucker–and I am sure within the womb too. She just knew from her first day how to suck her thumb without any sense of accidentally finding it. I thought it was another way that God made it clear to me that the girls were two different personalities from day one. Two special girls, but not the same!

I was a thumb sucker until 8 or so. Blanky and thumb were my buddies. One day they took me to see the orthodontist and then to see his wife the child psychologist or something. She told me I got one package of those sugar water filled wax things (I LOVED THOSE), and when they were all gone then no more thumb. I chewed up the pack within an hour of being home… and that was that.

We’ve already seen ultrasound shots of this little one sucking her thumb…. we likely have braces in our future.

Maya loved her binkie, too. We took it away when she was younger…10 or 11 months, I think. She threw fits. Of course, we did the whole ‘Ferber’ thing at the same time. We were cruel parents, clearly.

I suspect that if we had waited to take away the binkie, it would have been easier to give them up.

Ava only took a pacifier for about 3 months. Then she was done. However, she’s a thumb sucker. Thanfully she only does it at night, or when she’s really super tired.

P.S.
I am in love with that picture.

Jonathan will kill me for this, but at 8 he still sleeps with his blankie and I catch him sucking his thumb Little Lizzie sucks her thumb too. I have no intention to stop either one of them. If they need braces, they need braces. I will say that they don’t walk around with their thumbs in their mouths and they have no speech issues because of it. I never see Jonathan doing it unless I catch him when I check on him at night. Lizzie only does it when she is tired or hurt.

if my tiny boy still has one in college, it’s okay right?