Here I was, getting all excited about how we'd made it almost two months with no pacifier. (I really hate having to keep up with those things.) Jacob's had no trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, and when we do have to let him "cry it out" his fussing typically lasts no more than 5 minutes before he's out for a 12-hour night.And then I caught him wide awake in his crib at 7:30 in the morning, the time when I usually had to wake him up from his long winter's nap. How long he'd been awake, I couldn't tell. All was quiet in his room as he happily sucked on his left thumb and waited for me to come feed him.
He's a little young for the tabasco-sauce-on-the-thumb trick. I guess I'll just have to live with the thumb sucking for a while.
Had a thumb sucker and currently have a finger sucker! I think it's great, no waking up in the middle of the night wanting a paci! When Carter was 4 I put a band aid on his thumb every morning so he wouldn't suck it during the day. Being a first born, he never tried to take it off :) When he turned 5 we put the band aid on at night. He cried for about 30 minutes and fell asleep! Two weeks later we were able to quit the band aid and he got to pick out a train platform for his train. Easy peasy! And they look so cute sucking their thumbs!
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