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February 17, 2007 at 10:43 am #25112AnonymousInactive
This is really a silly question, I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this. We had a horrible night with Sarah last night. She was down for about an hour, woke up screaming, went back down for 5 minutes, woke up screaming, went back down for 30 seconds, woke up screaming…it was exhausting! She finally went down for the night around 11:30pm (after initially going to bed at 7:00!)
Anyway, I tried everything with her during these screaming sessions…mylanta, tylenol, and then orajel. The orajel was the only thing that calmed her down. Is it possible to have teething pain if she does NOT have red, swollen or otherwise visible teeth coming in? I am always second guessing what is going on with her, so having orajel be a temp. fix made me think teething, but there’s no signs of teeth!?!!? The last time she cut a tooth, we didn’t have a screaming session like that until the tooth was ABOUT to pop through and you could see it?
Hmmmm
February 17, 2007 at 11:51 am #25118AnonymousInactiveI think there is pain before you can see the tooth. I think most of the pain is before it breaks through. The teeth that she’s getting this time might be harder to cut than the others too. Justice is getting the two teeth beside the front two and boy it is hard on him. I am suprised the orajel worked. Maybe it’s possible the tylenol and orajel combo worked together. Tylenol doesn’t seem to help Justice. Actually now that I think about it Motrin hasn’t been working either. He has been constipated too. Maybe that is why motrin didn’t help. I hope those teeth come through soon. Isn’t it amazing that some kids don’t even flinch when getting a tooth? I have never had a baby like that.
February 17, 2007 at 7:24 pm #25158AnonymousInactiveAmy, I hear exactly what you are saying…teething is so hard to recognise, understand etc. I swear if Alana is not teething then she must have some dog DNA…there is so much drool, I am changing her bib every hour or so. And I know she can’t be hungry but her entire fist-no exageration- is in her mouth and being chewed on. But she is sleeping OK at night and is generally happy otherwise. I look in her mouth and there is no sign of anything even remotely looking like a tooth coming through—-Urg. I guess teething is as good as hypothesis as any. Hope tonight is better for you.
February 17, 2007 at 9:07 pm #25167AnonymousInactiveOK, this is going to sound really weird but there have been times when my kids were crying at night with what I thought was teething pain and I’d finally give them some Tylenol or Motrin in the middle of the night and they’d be asleep in five minutes. Now I know it doesn’t work that fast, so I presume they just like the taste. Now here’s the really weird part of this. I decided one day to do an experiment and I put some cranberry juice in a tylenol bottle and went in and gave it to Liza one night when she’d been crying, and guess what? She went right to sleep!! I kept fake tylenol in the fridge for a while for her.
How has Sarah been today? Teething is so hard to figure out.
February 17, 2007 at 11:27 pm #25171AnonymousInactiveChristine, I have done that kind of thing too, instead I have just given about .2ml of paracetamol to get the taste and then hey presto of to sleep- I like the idea of the cranberry juice though. I have a theory that it has to do with the sugar…when they take bloods from newborns they sometimes give them a concentrated sugar syrup…apprarently it acts as a pain reliever for some reason. So maybe it is the sugar in it?
February 18, 2007 at 9:53 am #25180AnonymousInactiveHmmm….that’s interesting about the sugar. Myles and Ellie both loved Mylicon drops and sometimes the same thing would happen with them. They’d be crying in the middle of the night and I though it was gas so I’d give them a few drops of Mylicon and they’d go right to sleep. I know it can’t work that fast!
At the hospital where my children were born they give baby boys a little cherry juice on a pacifier during their circumcision and my doctor says it helps them with the pain, so maybe it is the sugar.
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