This stuff is amazing!  (and I am NOT getting paid from this company!)  I just wanted to share the product that completely made Kayla stop sucking her thumb in ONE day!

Kayla was a good sleeper from the time she was an infant.  She took after her Dadda in that way - slept like a rock.  Every baby needs some kind of soothing method though.  My friend, who is an infant physical therapist and developmental counselor, suggested that I teach Kayla how to suck her thumb as her soothing method.  So, we did.  It worked wonders!  We would put her down to sleep, the blankie in one hand, and the thumb would automatically pop in.  She fell asleep and would soothe herself if she woke up in the middle of the night.

The downside came at about 14 months when sucking her thumb became a HABIT!  Any time we were in the car, the thumb would be in.  When she would watch a video, the thumb would be in.  We started to get concerned.  I read up on methods to stop the thumb sucking like overt praise, distraction, taking away the trigger object (in our case, her blankie), etc.  Nothing worked.  So, I read reviews and found MAVALA Stop. 

I applied a tiny itty bitty dot to the joint part of her thumb.  I didn't want to put it on her nail b/c toddlers eat with their fingers still and I didn't want to impact her taste.  When the thumb went in, she looked at me with disgust and I said, "EWWWWWeeeee, right?  Kayla, it's yucky!  Yuck yuck yuck!"  She tried one other time that day, and she immediately took it out of her mouth.  In just ONE day of applying a tiny itty bitty dot, it worked!

I shared this with my older sister, who has a daughter one year older than Kayla.  She's about 3 now.  My cutie patootie and smartie niece also loved sucking her thumb.  She had one more year of sucking expertise than Kayla.  I had some doubts, but Mavala Stop worked on HER in ONE day, too!  :)

So, I thought I would share this with you guys!  You all share great tips and stories with me, so I'm sharing one of mine with you! :)  Again, I'm not getting paid by this product.  I WISH they were paying me for this review!!!  As a newer company, I could use it.  haha  I'm kidding.  I think the best reviews come from those who have no other motive other than sharing what they experienced.  You never know what you can believe out there now!  I'm just a mom sharing with other moms and dads. :) 

(For those who don't have a thumb sucker, but you have a pacifier junky, you can use the SuperNanny method of the "Pacifier Fairy" who floats away with pacifiers one night.   I don't have any experience with this, so I haven't met this fairy.)