Thumb sucking

How do I stop my now 2 year old from thumb sucking? It’s worrying me so much now 😭 any advice and tips would be so great!!!🥺

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I have this same issue. Hopefully someone can give us both some advice/tips 😭

I'm sure you can get something to pop on the thumb to make it taste horrible. Maybe try some stuff in the kitchen first like a little lemon juice so it's sour and will dry x

I used to suck my thumb (until I was about 13😫), I eventually got some liquid that I put on my nail which stopped me sucking my thumb and biting my nails at the same time! It tasted like nail varnish remover🤢

I tried the nail polish and it didn’t work. My son still managed to suck it after putting it on. So what I did bc he sucked his two fingers, I taped it with bandage tape every night till he stopped and since I had the nail polish still I still put it on with the bandages for extra. It worked but definitely took like a month plus. But before I did I would tell him that we were going to help him stop sucking his thumbs so he was somewhat aware of what was going to happen.

I tried this and he just screams his lungs out to the point where he can’t breathe… :(

looks like I’ll then need to wait a couple of years to make him stop sucking his thumb? Gosh..

No, I would try bandage tape around his thumb. See if that works and if it doesn’t then tape his thumb to his pointer finger. It took a couple months.

Aww bless him. Just try taking it out his mouth saying ohh no dirty and give him a comforter to replace. Might take a while but it it might work x

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