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I have been reading posts in the teething forum for a few weeks now because I knew it was just around the corner for Sarah. WOW, I had no idea how horrendous teething was going to be!!!
She has been such a fuss ball last night and today. Every little thing makes her SHRIEK (piercing high pitched awful!) and whine. She is making weird faces with her mouth so I know she’s feeling the pain. 
Can’t anything come easy for reflux babies??? 
I don’t see anything yet, but her gums do feel a little swollen and she doesn’t like me touching them. I tried the Hylands Teething Tablets tonight and they didn’t seem to do anything for her?? I just gave her 2. I’ll try them again tomorrow.
I know every baby is different…but I’m REALLY hoping she’ll wake up with FOUR teeth tomorrow and all this fuss isn’t just for ONE!!!!!
Of course, my best friends 4 month old (the “perfect baby”) sprouted two teeth last week without them even realizing she was teething! Grrrrr! I feel like Sarah’s entire life is going to be marked by very noticable, screaming, shrieking hollers…while “perfect baby” sits and smiles all day. No fair!
Did you mommies find it true that once “teething symptoms” start, it is usually 3-5 days before the tooth actually erupts? Were your kiddos happy babies again once the tooth came through? I just need a light at the end of the tunnel I guess.
Thanks!
AmyThanks for the giggle Amy
I hear you about “perfect baby!!!”I just wonder if “perfect baby” might bite her mum on the bum as a teenager- hee heeeeeee
give the maximum amount of highlands that you feel comfortable with (the bottle say 3 at a time I think?)
try rubbing benedryl on the gums (thanks ann marie!) – the drool from teething has histimines and this can upset the reflux and benedryl is an antihistimine
freeze a carrot and/or a celery stalk & let her suck/teeth/drool on that. when the celery looks like it’s ‘had’ it, throw it away
(celery doesn’t last as long as a carrot stick with these little teethers, lol) really there isn’t a choking hazzard- just keep you eye on it- the amount of carrot a baby can get off a solid carrot is not enough to choke on…Well, in my experience usually they do teethe for months at a time, but the pain seems to come and go. You have some bad days with lots of crying and screaming (good days to use Tylenol), and lots more days of drooling, gumming everything in sight, but not as much actual pain, or at least lesser pain. The acute pain for my kids usually averaged two to three days for the incisors, a little longer for the eye teeth and longer still for the molars. Of course, all babies are different. My middle child would pop a tooth without much fuss (though she was generally needier than my other two as an infant). My first and last born were/are both miserable teethers, but still it’s usually on a few really bad days for each tooth.
Lots of distraction and something cold to teethe may help some. I often take Myles for a long drive, or to the mall when he’s teething badly. It seems to help keep his mind off of it.
Teething really does suck.
Especially for reflux babies who I feel have had their share of pain and should teethe painlessly.
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