A Broken Habit

Ever since Andrew was a very little guy he has favored sucking on his thumb for comfort. He never did it constantly, mainly only when he was either tired or nervous (he often gets nervous in strange surroundings and especially when people he doesn't know talk to him). And when I said thumb, I mean thumb; he only ever sucked on his left thumb. With that he quickly developed a large callous on the top.

A few months ago he started his teeth started bothering him and he rotated how he sucked on his thumb. In doing this he started to create a new callous on the pad of his thumb. not to far into that he ended up cutting his thumb with his teeth. This caused him pain every time he went to suck on it.

Todd and I had been discussing how we were going to get him to break this habit shortly before and God blessed us with this "easy way" out, granted neither of liked that our little guy was in pain during it. So we took the opportunity and ran with it. We told him every time he tried to suck on it that it was giving him ouchies and within a couple of days there were no issues. Bedtime was tear free within those couple of days and naptime followed a few days after (this is when he used his thumb the most).

We are so thankful for this habit being broken and his thumb is healing very nicely.

My view during snuggle time has become even more precious.
But I will miss it a little, since he looks even more like a big boy now.