uh, does that title date me too much?
Fi has been a thumb sucker for some time now but has still struggled a bit with the arm control…and forget getting it into her mouth when she’s tired and crying….until recently. She has seemingly over night become a thumb expert. She can get both her left and her right thumb into her mouth and do it with ease. It has helped us turn a new….and much anticipated….corner in our development. See…now when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she let’s out one maybe two cries…and then….SILENCE. The thumb is in her mouth and she is back to sleep. 4 nights now in a row I have only had to get up once, she has been able to sooth herself back to sleep all the other times.
Even crazier is that she now sucks her thumb randomly throughout the day…which also seems to calm her down. Last week she was so calm compared to her usual ants-in-the-pants constant state of movement that we all took her temperature several times, worried that maybe she was sick. But no. She just had her thumb. And for the first time ever my little girl has layed her head on my shoulder and sat still…while awake…content.
LONG LIVE THE THUMB!!
