My LO has recently found her hands, but I'm confused. When she sucks on them, is that always a hunger cue? Or can it be that sometimes she just wants to have her hands in her mouth to suck on?
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sucking can be a self-soothing technique, and my LO also chews on her hands when she is teething.
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@yoursilverlining: that's what i thought. but sometimes when i am nursing, she'll unlatch, suck on her hands and when i try to get her latched back on, she refuses or screams! it makes me so confused.
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My lo is the same way... He chews on them constantly regardless if he's hungry or not!
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@JessLC: We are going through exactly this right now. I had such an easy baby when she was born and now I have no clue, lol. Sucks on her hands like I never fed her in her life but is refusing to nurse on an afternoon/till she goes down. Confused.
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I think for J it used to be a hunger cue when he was very little, but now that he's sucking on his hands all the time, I'm pretty sure he's just sucking on them for comfort or because he likes sucking on things, not because he's hungry. At least that's what I'm telling myself, otherwise he'd be hungry all day long!
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L looves sucking in his hands. As a newborn he definitely did it when he was hungry, but now he does it when he's tired or just because he likes chewing and drooling on things!
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@JessLC: i;ve been going through EXACTLY this lately and i am soooo confused! i keep telling him that he is sending me mixed signals, lol.
@travelgirl1: maybe its good that our babies are acting the same way at the same age?!
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C also just realllly found her hands as well. Will be bf'ing, pop off and have her fingers in her mouth before I can blink, and no way in h-e-l-l will go on again if I pull her hands away. I don't associate it with hungry, more self-soothing, and oh man the drool!!! It's either thumb or pointer and middle finger when they're in her mouth, either hand.....silly girl! I try not to worry, it won't last forever!
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@JessLC: @travelgirl1: @PurpleUnicorn: How old are your babies? Mine was doing the same thing too just a week ago!! He's 6.5 months old now. >_< I can relate to the screaming at the boob even when it's his scheduled time to eat.
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Def not always a hunger cue. LO is formula-fed so I know exactly how much he's getting, and he'll often suck his hands right after a 6 oz bottle. There's no way he's hungry after that!
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@cranberryapple: my girl is 3.5 months, so interesting to see how old your LO is and that this may last!!!
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@PurpleUnicorn: she is like a different baby at night at the moment. Hungry but won't eat, tired but won't sleep. She used to breastfeed till the cows came home, now she acts like I'm feeding her lava or something, lol. I wish I knew what was going on in her sweet little head.
@cranberryapple: she's 13 weeks.
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@cranberryapple: my guy is going to be 3 months on wednesday!
someone in my "breast refusal" thread where i described exactly this problem gave me a link to this site - i read through it and found it so reassuring and helpful!
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@travelgirl1: i wish L could talk to me and just tell me what he wants, i would give him whatever he asked for, LOL!
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haha, this is so funny we are all going thru the same thing! i kept trying to feed her and she was getting so mad and screaming, but i wasn't sure if she was starving or not because she was chowing down on her hands.
@cranberryapple: i think all of our LOs are around 3-4 months old.
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@PurpleUnicorn: I think another poster said it best when they reckoned that babies should be followed by an instruction manual instead of the placenta!
All the info I've read says that babies go through a real fussy / distracted stage ar four months which is apparently development related, I guess the world is so much more interesting when you're 3-4 months old!
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@travelgirl1: haha, you are so funny with your analogies. trying to feed her lava, lol.
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@PurpleUnicorn: that link is brilliant, thank you for posting that!
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@Kemma: ha that was me. You can tell we've had a hard few weeks
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@Kemma: LO is so distracted these days...unlatch and stare at me, at the picture on the wall, latch...unlatch, latch...cry until i turn her head to my boob like she can't find it, turn her head to daddy's voice, etc etc. it takes FOREVER to feed her.
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@JessLC: Ha ha, I seriously taste my milk all the time just to check it's not something grotesque (or lava). But it's fine, unless baby girl just has far more sophisticated tastes than what my humble diet provides her with : )
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@travelgirl1: no problem! It was actually @Kemma: who gave me the link in my other thread!
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@Beebug: Whoops, I hope I didn't worry you! I swear, they're just stages that last no longer than a couple of days at most, and there are some good weeks and some not so good weeks, but, I think there are more good days than not, or else I'd probably have a breakdown. =P
@JessLC: Yes, the distraction thing is majorly annoying! DS has been doing that a lot as well! It's cute, but still annoying....Hahaha.
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