Today we saw the kids' dentist, Dr. Jessie ... our purpose for the visit?
My first born has stopped sucking her thumb.
She really stopped last October ... but I wanted to be sure it was a permanent thing. Dr. Jessie and all her staff made a huge deal of it ... they are soooo wonderful ... She had balloons, too, but they didn't make it home.
To grasp the magnitude of her accomplishment and how hard she worked to stop, I need to tell you that she was sucking her thumb in the womb. When she was born she had a blister on her thumb from sucking it ... all the nurses joked about how hard of a habit it was going to be to break ... she did it without help or aids ... the only thing we did was to occasionally remind her that she needed to stop around 4 years old (per Dr. Jessie). Our pedi's advice was to not pressure her ...
We are so happy for her ...
And ... FYI
The posing was her idea ... she has ham in her DNA :)
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5 comments:
Congratulations. What an enormous step.
(I have a secret belief that my sister still sucks her thumb. She's 20, and pregnant.)
Good for her!! I'm sure it wasn't easy.
Awww, what a huge milestone!! That's a hard habit to break!
Love the pic...she's adorable!
She is beyond adorable! Seriously, you have wicked cute children! And that's incredibly impressive that she was able to quit on her own. I'm pretty sure I was 12 when I quit. Even more pathetic: I used to suck my index finger, but I broke it when I was 9... and switched to my thumb. I never had braces though, shockingly. My dentist still can't believe how straight and tight they are. That's so neat that your dentist made such a big deal, she must have felt SO special!
Congratulations!
As a former thumg sucker myself, I can remember how hard it was.
I was given the incentive of appearing on Romper Room if I could just stop. Even that didn't get me. I can remember sitting in the front room, sucking away while wathing my best friend on TV.
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