Baby sucking on hands

Hi my baby is almost 3mths and has started putting her hand in her mouth the past week. What can we do to deal with this? Im avoiding the pacifier.

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Super Mum

Actually it’s okay. She’s discovering that she has hands:) soon she’ll be putting everything into her mouth too, because babies go through the oral phase to learn about objects. Just remove any dangerous or small items from around her. She’ll start drooling more soon too because of the teething process. May want to prepare your bibs. Heh.

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It’s babies’ way of exploring her hands and the world. You shouldn’t stop it. It’s natural. Just need to clean her hands and mouth more often and keep the environment clean.

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I tried to stop her eventually I let her be because it’s actually good for her to learn how to self soothe. 😂

It’s actually okay! Because it is a gesture of self smoothing.

Super Mum

They are trying to self soothe sometimes

Thank you all! Won’t stop her then :)

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its normal! better than use pacifier.

It’s normal!