The dummy debate

[aggie]

Eldest DGD is in the process of very expensive Orthodontic treatment due to her thumb sucking , she looks so much prettier already and has a way to go , her cousins were well warned and only the other thumb sucker is due to go the same way , the dummy suckers seem to have got off sucking so much easier . However I never could get my own to take to a dummy , and they did have to have braces , the eldest was the most affected

[Daisy]

aggie - I seem to remember there was a lot of discussion when my sons were babies about dummies v. thumbs and the effect on their teeth. I hadn't thought about it until I read your post,
but I don't hear mums discussing it so much now. Both my sons needed braces - a dedicated thumb sucker and the other briefly sucked two fingers.

Gem - well done to GS1 for donating his dummy to the Dummy Fairy. My GD2 is talking about giving up hers, but nobody's rushing her - she's still cutting back teeth, and as always has a cold, a slightly upset tummy and is in tears at the slightest thing.

[Libra Gran]

I don't see anything wrong with a dummy,if it brings them a little comfort. All mine had dummies and not one had to have a brace on their teeth.

[Plantaholic]

All my GC had to have braces, none of them sucked their thumb, one did suck her little finger and one had a dummy.

[Oma]

My twin nieces sucked their thumbs and both had braces they are in their 40,s now and one still sucks her thumb if she's tired stressed or unwell , they often had sore thumbs as toddlers , they were hair twirlers too one thumb in mouth one hand twiddling their hair , neither had dummies , we did think GS1 was going to be a thumb suckered as when he was only days old he would such his thumb but it stopped by time he was a couple of month old ,

[Daisy]

Oma - are they identical twins? I find it fascinating that relatively minor mannerisms etc are the same in twins.