You would think I knew what to look for after working with kids nearly all my life in one form or another.

Is Dainyah too young to start teething? Last night, all she wanted to do was to chomp on my or Peter's hands, arm, or whatever she could get her mouth around (including while nursing....I think I may end up with a bruise yet from last night). Last night, her gums were as hard as a rock. And in the past couple of days, she's been drooling way more too. About a week ago or so, her gum where her bottom left front tooth should come in at was white. I tried giving her those brightly colored plastic teething beads you can buy at wally world for cheap, but she doesn't quite have the manual dexterity to hold it for any length of time yet. (Peter then got the brilliant idea that we could try one of those cheap dollar store pacis that we were given and have never used [I didn't want her to use one, nor would she take them the few times we've tried out of curiosity] and she chewed on that until it either fell out of her mouth, or she spit it [boy, did that arch very well that time]).

She turned three months old today.

Where has the time gone? Seems like yesterday I was in the delivery room wishing I lived in a homebirth friendly state, telling my husband to go tell the nice male nurse thanks for telling me I was doing a good job (I was on drugs and hallucinating. Turns out, the nice male nurse was my Hubby who at that point was getting pretty freaked out at my ramblings, pain and then passing out for the thirty seconds between contractions from the staydol, which I wouldn't have needed if I had been allowed to go naturally and I would have been way more relaxed at home....)

I think I want another one. They don't stay teeny for very long.

My ds got his first two teeth at three months so that may very well be what she is doing. They do grow up too fast...enjoy every second and takes lots of pictures too.

Stephanie :D

Short answer..no. She's not too young to start teething. Hannah has been doing the same thing since about three months.

And yes, they do grow up fast! You getting baby fever too, LOL? I don't plan on trying for another one for awhile but I sure enjoy daydreaming about it.

It's a good thing that they grow up. If they stayed at newborn stage for 10 years, I could only probably handle having one kid. LOL. [rofl]

I know what you mean Ruth. We are just finally getting the sleeping thing straightened out.

Boy, can she gnaw on you when she sets to do it. I coudn't believe the strength in her jaws last night. I guess the ped. wasn't joking when he said she was a strong as a lot of kids twice her age....

Now, to just master the rolling over thing. She keeps getting caught on her arm. And then she gets rather irate because she can't do what she sets out to do....

Guess it is time to get some teething relief stuff. Oh the joys of deciding what to try first.

Nope, not too early at all.
All of mine have been early teethers. Some cut through by 6 months, some a bit later. Myself, I believe my mom said I cut them 2 at a time, starting at 4 months.

As for teething helps...
Hylands teething tablets work well ... for those for whom they work .. they're hit or miss with my gang..worked for this one, didn't for that one

Then I just got, um, what's it called ... a-ha Gentle Naturals Homeopathic Teething Liquid by Orajel (link: http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100357&navAction=jump&navCount=1&id=prod2389210 ) It has worked well for bebe.

Also..amber teething necklace. Some don't 'buy into it' but, I have SEEN a change in my child once we got this. It was unreal! He was a drooling machine, 3 outfits a day he would easily soak, just DROOLING. I put the necklace on him and almost instantly, it stopped. He was a calmer, happy baby again and rarely ever ANY drool to speak of. The only time there's drool is if he's had a really 'rough' day and fingers have been in his mouth a LOT.
I got my beads from a bead shop and put them on elastic myself..as I was impatient, didn't want to wait for an online order ;)
But here's a link to that as well: http://threesisterstoys.com/storedetail.asp?item=10000357&ItemName=Amber%20Teething%20Necklace As I said, I didn't order a premade one, but I have heard MANY rave about the service and quality from this site. Though, feel free to search for other sources, just be sure you're getting *real* amber. Go ahead and research the whole idea too. Interesting ;)

The necklaces are *not* for chewing. The ones you get online should be individually knotted so that if/when the necklace breaks, it's not scattering beads afar and thereby losing them. Again, as I said, I did mine myself. Beads are just strung on thin elastic I got at the bead shop and knotted closed. Can't individually knot elastic ;) Though you can buy a fine silk 'thread' for that, also available at the bead shop, I just didn't have the money for that, that day. Anywho...my bebe has been wearing his for ... oh ... what?? 6 months now ?? We've not had any problems. He rarely ever even notices it. I can count on one hand the number of times he has grabbed at it. I just tell him no, and release his grip. It's only been within the last month that he's even 'noticed' it on him.

HTH

Other helps...cold wet washcloth. Mine also like to chew on cold baby carrots. I would hold it for them until they were able to do so themselves, then I just watch them closely, them on my lap or whatever for proper supervision. I fully believe this method resulted in my 5 yr olds DIVINE love for carrots LOL My 3 yr old devours them as well, did the same with her. My other kids really like carrots, but, these two are just insatiable LOL

Oh no, it's not too early! Tory started cutting her first tooth at about 2-1/2 months, and it took FOREVER to come in, so there was about a week of fussiness and all that that entails.

I use Hyland's teething tablets, too. They work wonders on my little Tory, but Tara's right. It is kind of hit and miss. They didn't really help Audrey.

I wish you and Daniyah an easy time with this!

A lot of kids were on the teething tabs when I worked at the daycare.

I've heard of the other stuff. So far, it is just periods of fussiness. Not looking forward to the next step in this. We had one girl at the day care who was an absolute bear on a Thursday and Friday. When she got dropped off the following Monday, she had cut four teeth. Her mom was like, she was horrible all day Saturday to the point we nearly traded her in.

Oh well, this too shall pass.

Thanks all. I was dreading the answer I got.

Katherine drooled/gnawed for about 3 months before she cut a tooth - and when she cut a tooth, man, was it ever NASTY. She was sooo fussy.

She is about to cut another tooth I think. She would not go to sleep tonight (woke up after about 10 min. of sleep screaming) and was just screaming for like an hour and a half!!... and would not even take a boob to suck on - and she would scream bloody murder when we tried to rub her gums or give her a cool washcloth to chew on- poor baby.

We caved and gave her infant's tylenol. We usually try to avoid medications. But this was extreme... she has finally calmed down although she still would not go to sleep. she's got a big white bump on the front of her gums that we thought was a tooth but it's probably just a sign the tooth is coming LOL. She is content in her baby swing right now - whew. I thought I was going to have to hold a screaming baby all night... so glad we had some infant's tylenol around!! if the health nurse hadn't given it to us for free we wouldn't even have it... i should call and thank her LOL

I'm tellin' ya .... the amber teething necklace was my lifesaver. It really put an end to the insane fussiness. It really helped to give him an overall calmness. Then for the times he was chewing everything in sight, I gave the tablets or drops. They work instantly.

Ok, I'm done now...I promise, I am not a paid spokesperson LOL

Sorry you had to deal with that last night Cheeseburger. I know you are more into the natural stuff (we don't own a bottle of baby tylenol yet either, but then, the weight requirements on it are twice Dainyah's weight, though I could call the doc's office for dosing, I want to hold off as long as possible on the stuff. If she gets too bad, I'll take some tylenol and let her get it second hand, which by then, I'll need some from the headache her screaming will have probably given me....) but have you tried oil of cloves? Cloves are an anistetic (sp, sorry) and you can get their oil in health food stores. It is natural (works great on sore throats, especially if you can find the clove gum) and way back before modern medicine, people would chew on cloves when they had a toothache. I love the way cloves taste and smell too. Might be worth a shot. I might be able to get a bottle next time hubby is paid.

Tara, want a job as a promo person? :D I think I might ask my MIL if she would make an amber necklace for Dainyah. MIL is making jewelry to sell now and she's pretty good. I know she got some amber last summer, if she's used it or not yet, I don't know (though, there was a fly petrified in the peices she got and one had a honey bee. Don't know if I could deal with that on my child's neck)

She's not as fussy today. Except for the fact we got up earlier than usual. She's asleep now in the swing probably for an hour or so. Then, we will stay up until going on six or so, maybe take an hour long nap and then be awake until midnight or a little after. My kid is a wired night owl. She is strange. She also loves the nasal aspirator! She may just enjoy the slightly more odd teething remedies.

It is never too early for teething - I have heard that some babiies are born with teeth! You may see the symptoms long before you actually see the teeth pushing through because they can move up and down a bit in the gums for a while.

I'm afraid I don't have any great advice for dealing with teething pains - teething never particularly bothered my son. But I'll have a read of everyones suggestions - just in case my daughter has teething pain soon.

Last night my husband told me I was lucky that Dainyah doesn't have teeth yet. The manager over his department just had their third born in late November, and she has cut eight already.

I can not imagine. I pray that is never us at one month.

My dd started the teething process at 8 weeks but nothing came through until she was 6 months. She got the bottom 2 teeth and then we had 3 more months of horrible time of teething (waking up screaming, fussy, not eating much) before anything came thru. Then she got 5 teeth in 3 weeks. Poor thing, no wonder she was sore, they were all coming at once. I just use the teething powders and they work sometimes and sometimes they don't. But I would say count your blessing on her not having teeth yet, bcuz once they get teeth and they bite when you are feeding them, OUCH!!! Anyone got any methods on keeping them from biting?

My mom took me and made a quick fishy face the first time I bit her (on me, not her, she took my cheeks and kind of pinched them in to make a fishy face to startle me), and said in a stern, loud enough to get attention/shock voice, ouch! No! A few times of that and I was "cured." I also know of someone who will say no firmly and put it away for awhile so the baby learns, bite mom, no eat.

Thanks Crissyanna, she's only bit me like 3 times or something. And each time I've yelped and said no in a stern voice and taken her off. Hopefully that works. Sorry for hijacking your post :oops: Ooops!

Mine have all responded well to a stern "no bite" with a little flick to the cheek, and 'putting it away' for a minute. Let them try to root back in there and I will say, no, not yet, you bit. They usually snuggle back down against my neck/chest, then once they've calmed again I let them back to finish nursing.


Crissyanna..I don't know about a fly hanging around my child's neck either LOL But at least you're sure that's *real* amber hehehe
Oh and even though those links showed a strand full of beads, you don't *have* to do it that way. You could do a slightly larger pendant style, though, I *would* be more concerned about choking hazard there. Anywho...you could mix with other beads, I think having even 1/3 of the strand as amber will give adequate effect.

Oh, I said I was done promoting amber didn't I? LOL Sorry. :oops:

Eva, no worry about the hijack. Useful info to all of us, right?

Tara, Tara, Tara.....for shame. Ok, J/K. Yeah, at least I knew it was real amber. Weird typing that name in lowercase. It's my sister's name....We got it all the time growing up, Crystal and Amber, two jewel's. Ugh. Ok, very original, mom and dad didn't plan it that way either (she wanted to name one of us Tiffany, and grandma was like I do not like that name, do not name your child that, so mom relented and didn't. I'm glad, not to offend anyone, but all the Tiffany's I've known were horrible snobs and preppy). I'm just doubly greatful neither of us were boys. The name she has always and forever loved for a boy is Gaylord Demetrius. ICK! I so would have been in the courthouse filing papers to change my name at the age of 18......

Ok, back to our teething topic.