{"id":2947,"date":"2014-01-22T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:16:29","slug":"teething-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/teething-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Teething Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was up at 2:30 with my teething monster baby this morning (and 3:00 and 3:30 and 4:00), my mind was swimming with ideas of what to write about.\u00a0 But now, in my sleep deprived state, as I sit here in front of a blank canvas, I\u2019ve got nothing!\u00a0 Despite the silence (Doodle is miraculously still sleeping and hubby and Sugarplum are off taking Honeybun to school) the ideas are stuck somewhere up in my head, all jumbled together and even the coffee I\u2019m furiously drinking is not unscrambling my thoughts.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember teething being this hard with the girls, especially the sleeping part.\u00a0 I know they were overall good teethers and really only fussed when the teeth were pushing up through the gums.\u00a0 It seems to be the same with Doodle, except the poor guy can\u2019t sleep to save his life!\u00a0 His day yesterday consisted of three 45minute naps, the 2nd<\/sup> of which he woke up clearly still tired, writhing in pain, moaning and rocking on his side (he\u2019s an adamant back sleeper still) and breaking this mommy\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

His nights have been much better the past few days.\u00a0 Usually if he wakes in the night he starts with whining and sometimes he\u2019ll put himself back to sleep whereas other times the whining escalates to crying and\/or screaming and hubby or I have to intervene.\u00a0 Last night, however, I was awoken at 2:30 by a blood-curdling scream!<\/p>\n

Hubby went in to try to soothe him but it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 I knew it was the teething so I broke my \u201cFinished with Night-Feeding\u201d resolution and went in and fed him.\u00a0 He drifted back to sleep until I put him back in his bed at which time he woke back up, crying.\u00a0 I rocked him awhile and finally got him settled but when I tried to leave the room my knee cracked and he went back to screaming.\u00a0 I continued rocking to no avail.\u00a0 I left him awhile to work it out and he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I went back in, gave him some teething tablets and rocked again and FINALLY got him to sleep about 4:10.\u00a0 But he was back up a short time later.\u00a0 Hubby went back in and finally got him back to sleep (and he\u2019s still sleeping at 8:10).<\/p>\n

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The teething never bothered the girls\u2019 sleeping that I remember.\u00a0 Honeybun was 9 months old when she got her cute little bottom teeth and\u00a0 had been sleeping through the night since 9 weeks and was not fazed by her new additions.\u00a0 Sugarplum got her first teeth at around 6 \u00bd months and wasn\u2019t sleeping through the night so maybe I just didn\u2019t associate the teething with the waking.<\/p>\n

While both girls had their miserable moments during the day while teething, it wasn\u2019t ever anything a few teething tablets couldn\u2019t fix.\u00a0 I never needed pain medicine, orajel and didn\u2019t even know about amber teething necklaces.\u00a0 Poor Doodle, though, seems to have more extreme discomfort that came on very suddenly.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>He\u2019s been chewing and drooling for months (hubby\u2019s Grammy at Thanksgiving insisted he was going to break teeth at any moment) but he\u2019s always just been a very oral baby.\u00a0 He started sucking and chewing on his burp rags (which now act as his loveys) when he was only a few days old and has been going to town on his teethers as long as he\u2019s been able to hold them.\u00a0 And even though I\u2019ve been watching his tiny little teeth move their way up along the fronts of his gums, the fussiness and pain hit us like a Mack truck yesterday, blindsided us unknowingly and seemingly unprepared!<\/p>\n

The teething tablets seem to be helping as does nursing on demand (and he is definitely demanding it!)\u00a0 Hopefully today we can better manage his pain and help him get some good naps in so we can all get a better night\u2019s sleep tonight.<\/p>\n

Do you have any tips for helping baby through teething pains?<\/p>\n

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When I was up at 2:30 with my teething monster baby this morning (and 3:00 and 3:30 and 4:00), my mind was swimming with ideas of what to write about.\u00a0 But now, in my sleep deprived state, as I sit here in front of a blank canvas, I\u2019ve got nothing!\u00a0 Despite the silence (Doodle is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}