Baby teething remedies – easing the pain - Baby Love - Life as a ...

It’s official–Astor is teething. She has all the classic cryptogram and symptoms of a baby cutting teeth: She drools a lot; she fusses; she wants to chew on everything in sight; she cries inconsolably in the evenings before bed. Her baby teething pain seems to cause her the most discomfort at night–she doesn’t want to go to sleep and she has been waking up more often in the middle of the night. Plus, now she doesn’t want to nurse in the evenings (according to WTE, sucking movements can worsen baby teething pain and pressure, so infants often avoid eating when they’re teething). I feel so terrible for her!

So Justin and I have been tiresome out some baby teething remedies. For one, we give her refrigerated teethers and encourage her to chew on her Sophie the Giraffe teething toy. Harder objects seem to help, too, like her board books and wooden toys. We’ve also been giving her a bottle at night, which I read can be more calming on a baby’s sore gums than the breast. And finally, we’ve given her infant acetaminophen before bed the last three nights (I’m vacant to call the pediatrician tomorrow to see what else we can do for her because the bottle says not to administer the medicine more than five days in a row). The Tylenol seems to help–she woke up just once (for a small time) the first night we gave it to her. Last night, we gave it to her again but this time we administered half the dose because I get nervous in this area giving her medication (I worry that she’s vacant to have a terrible result to it!), and she was up crying from 2 to 3 a.m. (she wouldn’t nurse yet again). I went back to the full dose tonight–we’ll see how that works.

It’s so hard to watch Astor be in pain and not be able to do much in this area it–usually when she’s upset, I’ll nurse her and she calms down and goes back to sleep. It’s tiresome to accept the fact that here’s not much I can do but comfort her and try my best to make her feel surpass. It’s a frustrating and exhausting time for all of us, and I just hope it’s over soon!

Do you have any foolproof baby teething remedies? How long did teething pain and soreness last for your small one?

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