Baby finger sucking okay?

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Registered: 01-30-2004
Baby finger sucking okay?
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Thu, 01-13-2005 - 6:50pm
My son is almost 6 months old and has started to suck on his fingers (the two middle ones.) Anyway, he no longer takes a pacifier, he prefers his fingers. It seems they are in his mouth all day and night, except for when he eats. Is this okay? Also, I started him on rice ceral last week but I dont know what kind of feeding schedule to have? When I try to nurse him during the day he pitches a fit for about 5 minutes then finally relents and nurses...what is going on? Help, please!
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Registered: 10-06-2004
Fri, 01-14-2005 - 10:04am
I started giving my DD 3 or 4 bites of rice cereal before I nursed her because she was crying and not nursing and that seemed to help.