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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what our Peditrician just told us at our 2 year well visit.

He said all was well but to get DD to a pediatric dentist due to concerns teeth and jaw alignment.  He noticed she had her two fingers hooked in her mouth and she was sucking.  She’s always done this when she was anxious or sleepy.

He said it needed to be addressed ASAP and we are serious about addressing it but I was caught off guard when he went on a lecture about “unaddressed and unresolved trauma”.

He assured us it didn’t mean she was abused or is being abused, and that childhood trauma is fairly normal.  Especially medical trauma or separation trauma.   DD stays at home with me but she got RSV at 7 months and was hospitalized for weeks and it was VERY traumatic for us, but figured she’d forget it.

I did notice an uptick in this because while she was hospitalized.  I couldn’t nurse her for comfort due to tubes and monitors so she definitely was sucking on her hands more.

I know we couldn’t help any of this but this makes me feel horrible.  I found some data on finger/thumb sucking and self soothing and some on trauma but is there really a direct correlation? 
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Babies do not forget a traumatic event like a sudden separation from their mother. I wish they had let you stay her.[/quote]

Forget isn’t the right word. Babies definitely forget traumatic events. No one has memories before age 2-3. The problem with early trauma isn’t that you remember but that the trauma and attendant stress responses like cortisol shape the way the brain develops. [/quote]

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