Baby sucking hands

Yes, my 12 week old has been obsessed with chewing her hands for about two weeks now, constant dribble aswell, typical teething behaviour (possibly too early yet though) Apparently it’s normal part of discovering their own hands as well

Oh yes, our 11 week old is exactly the same and has been for a couple of weeks. At night we fold the hands over on his sleepsuit for warmth but he'll still suck on them even with the sleepsuit over them 🙈😂

Yep same here as above my son has been doing it since around 10 weeks and loves it. I also heard it’s normal parts of them discovering their hands so I leave him to it. Might introduce a bib soon though as there’s lots of dribble 😂 x

Ours does it to self sooth, so it could even be that your little one is waking up for another reason and then sucking his hand to help him go back to sleep? I've noticed our little girl does this when a noise wakes her up from her nap a little bit, the hand goes to the mouth and then she drops back to sleep.

Thanks all! We got into a good routine with night sleep (for about 3 nights so probably can't say routine 😂) and since he's discovered his hands he's sleeping terribly again. It might not even be related. Didn't think of the hand sucking as a soothing mechanism to go back to sleep so maybe another reason he's getting up. Luckily not much dribble yet!

We’re in the same situation! We swaddle our little girl at night with her arms up but nap time is a real fight because we don’t swaddle and she just keeps herself awake by constantly sucking her hands! I’ve also read it’s important for development and can be self-soothing so I don’t try to stop her, but her sleeves are constantly soaking from all the dribble 😅

My 13 week tomorrow does the same for the last couple of weeks but alot more in the last week… dribble aloooot …:))

12 weeks and she’s never got her hands out of her mouth, dribble the lot 🙈

Glad he's not the only one!

I can’t tell if it’s a hunger queue or just hand sucking 😅

@Rachel sameeee !!!