Babs has spent the better part of the last month trying to suck her thumb in an attempt to self-soothe (like my other, she does not approve of pacifiers). She poked at her eyes, scratched up her face, and really struggled with finding her thumb.In fact, she has given up. Although this picture gives the impression that she is sucking her thumb, she is in fact sucking her palm where her thumb meets the palm. And she actively searches out this knob of her hand when she's trying to go to sleep.
With the other hand she grabs and pulls at her hair. A bald spot seems pending.
It actually works out nicely, because as soon as she's sucked for just a few moments, she falls asleep, hand safely at her side. Perhaps this means that we'll only need to wean one child from sucking her thumb. Or perhaps we've just postponed the inevitable. She sure is cute though.
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With our visit to the hospital she was weighed and measured. 16 lbs; 26 inches. Yeah, she's huge.
