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Why Is My Child Always Hungry And Sucking His Fingers?
hi, my boy is 5 months 2 weeks old and weighs 6.5kilos. I started giving him 3spoons of cerelac twice a day plus 120ml of formula milk 4 times a day along with my milk( initially we started formula milk at 2 month as he was never satisfied with my milk). Now again he seems dissatisfied, he always cries and sucks his fingers. I am wondering if i should increase the cerelac feeds? will be very desperate to hear your answer.
Tue, 22 Apr 2014
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I really appreciate your concern if your baby is sucking the thumb then this is not the sign of hungry, but this proves that the baby is not breast feed well or not at all given breast feeding, this is absolute instinct of sucking of baby and this is right of them and for that they should be feed, the babies those are not breast feed are always victims of thumb sucking, hope this information helps you have nice day.
Thank for asking to HCM
I really appreciate your concern if your baby is sucking the thumb then this is not the sign of hungry, but this proves that the baby is not breast feed well or not at all given breast feeding, this is absolute instinct of sucking of baby and this is right of them and for that they should be feed, the babies those are not breast feed are always victims of thumb sucking, hope this information helps you have nice day.
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