Why do children like to bite their fingers in daily life?

A few months after birth, babies will have a variety of eating hands, eating positively, eating backwards, lying down, sitting eating, happy to eat, unhappy to eat. In short, they will take advantage of the effective time to wake up, eat their own little hands in a variety of ways, and eat happily.

In fact, it is normal for babies at this stage to eat hands, and parents do not need to deliberately stop it. Because for newborn babies, they are not yet able to crawl, walk, run, or jump, and can only see everything through their eyes. Although parents have prepared a lot of toys for their babies, they are still unable to understand and play.

So a pair of small hands become the best toys.

Moreover, by eating hands, you can also exercise the baby's perceptual ability, after all, at the beginning, they relied on the perception ability of the "mouth" to understand the world!

Eating hands can also enhance the baby's hand-mouth coordination and help brain development.

During this period, parents should not deliberately prevent the baby from eating hands, pay attention to keeping the baby's hands clean, at the same time, you can give the baby more comfort, and do some interactive games with the baby, so that the baby can feel the care of the parents, and they will be happier.

If babies over one year old still have the habit of eating hands, parents need to pay attention. Some children eat their hands when they are bored, some babies eat their hands when they are frightened or nervous, some children eat their hands when they are sad, and of course, in the process of the baby's teething, the baby will also get used to eating hands. Therefore, parents should pay more attention to the baby and distinguish why the baby eats hands.

If it is eating hands during the teething process, parents should pay more attention, because the baby is always eating hands is easy to eat some bacteria or viruses, plus the baby feels uncomfortable in the mouth when the upper teeth, he may pick the gum by himself, easy to bleed, and even infection.

If the baby's eating hands is more of a psychological effect, such as eating hands when they are nervous, sad or bored, parents should not scold them too much. You can find some toys or picture books that your baby likes to show them, and at the same time pull your baby's hand over. In this way, you can distract your baby and make them forget to eat their hands.

Don't see that the baby is always eating hands, it's useless to say it, get angry directly, or hit the baby's hands. This will make the baby feel more aggrieved.

At the same time, parents should give their babies more company and encourage them to communicate more with other children. On weekends, you have time to take your baby to the zoo or nature walk, so that your child can feel the love of his parents, and at the same time, he can have more opportunities to learn about the world. In this way, more companionship and happiness will soon make the baby's habit of eating fingers change.

Because the child finds it fun to bite his fingers, and he thinks it will be very comfortable to bite his fingers, children generally choose to bite their fingers when they have no toys to play with.

If a child often bites his fingernails, it may reflect an emotional problem, such as uneasiness and insecurity, or a lack of some trace elements such as zinc.

A large percentage of people bite their fingers because they are nervous, and some like to bite their fingers while thinking about problems.

They feel that it tastes, they feel very flavorful when they suck their fingers, it feels very fragrant, so they all like it.

Because babies are very unfamiliar with the outside world and are not particularly familiar with their fingers, biting their fingers is the baby's first reaction, and they will develop a habit of biting their fingers after a long time.

The first reason is that after 3 to 4 months, the baby will eat his own fingers because he has a physiological sucking request, and the second reason may be due to the child's psychological unsatisfied, nervous, fearful, anxious or not fully loved by his parents.

Because babies are more curious, they will have this thought, and then they will put their fingers in their mouths and bite, so that their curiosity can be satisfied, and they will be comfortable.

This shows that the baby is beginning to be interested in the outside world, but at this time he does not think of his hands as a part of his body, he treats them as toys.

This is because babies are very insecure, and then they also find this behavior very interesting, and it is also related to the fact that parents do not stop it in time.

This is how babies soothe themselves so that they feel safe and emotionally stable.

Babies do like to bite their fingers when they are concentrating or idle.

The best way to do this is to give your child toys and teething sticks or pacifiers, as this is a great way to distract him. At this time, most of the oral desire period has this situation.

A good way is to put something unpalatable on your child's finger and stop biting it when he bites it.

Use the anti-bite finger artifact. Finger cuffs to prevent your baby from biting your finger can be purchased online, and if your baby bites his finger and is often stopped, he will stop doing so.