How to stop baby from biting his lips?

Many parents have found that their children always have the habit of biting their lips. Although it seemed nothing happened at the time, it would not be good if it continued like this. So how do you stop your baby from biting his lips?

Sucking is an innate action for children and is a necessary condition for their survival. The sucking instinct of the vast majority of breastfed babies is satisfied, but the sucking instinct of bottle-fed babies is often not satisfied, so they will seek satisfaction from other places, such as biting their lips, biting nipples, biting the corners of quilts, etc. Generally speaking, children will automatically give up this habit by the end of the first year of life, because at this time they can "eat" things that require chewing and will also use their mouths to speak.

To correct this habit, you can do the following:

1. Make an agreement with the dentist that if you bring a child, ask him to say to the child: "Don't bite your lips" (or gesture to him not to bite his lips, because he is still young and may not understand this sentence). This is much more powerful than saying it yourself.

2. We cannot force a child to change bad habits. We must give him the motivation to change. This motivation can come from a family friend, an elder who doesn’t hang out with them, a relative, or a teacher. If they say that this habit is bad, they will dislike him; if he changes it, they will like him.

3. Don’t put too much pressure on him and don’t nag him, because pressure and nagging will make him feel that he is being noticed, and children love to be noticed. Due to his rebellious psychology, he will perform habitual actions more often, such as sucking his lips.

4. Use substitutes to "occupy" your mouth. For example, talk to him and let him answer; eat things that need to be chewed (such as biscuits); sing; blow feathers; blow a trumpet, etc.

5. Give rewards. The reward you give him must be something he likes, such as hawthorn chips, potato chips, candy, raisins, etc. Make it clear to him that he will give it to you if you don't bite your lip. Connect "not doing a certain behavior" (such as biting your lip) with "getting some benefit". He might give up something to get something. Of course, she is still young and it is still difficult for her to understand this cause and effect relationship, but if you talk more, she will slowly understand it.

6. When she is a little older and still bites her lips, you can apply some berberine water on her lower lip to make her feel disgusted and give up.

7. Place a metal plate on her upper palate so that she cannot bite her lower lip with her upper lip. This device needs to be made by a dentist.