Teething Pains

My daughter is cutting her 2 year molars right now. They are giving her trouble, but like your 10 month old she did not have a problem getting her other ones. I guess some teeth affect kids in a different way. Try freezing a wet washrag and letting him chew on it.

my 9 month old is working on her 5th tooth now, and taking it fairly well. the first ones were a hassle but we used some baby tylenol to combat the fevers and origel for her crankiness. good luck with yours!

I remember those days. My son once had 4 teeth coming in at the same time. The best thing you can do, honestly, is go to Walmart and look for Hyland's homeopathic teething tablets. They are sometimes in a weird place so you might have to look around or ask the pharmacist, but Walmart does carry them. They come in a little blue and pink box. They are completely safe for babies to take. They are these little tiny chalky tablets that you put under your baby's tongue and they dissolve in their mouth. These were a LIFESAVER for me. Try them and I promise you won't be disappointed. Hyland's earache tablets were also a godsend when a pharmacist told me there was nothing I could do for my screaming baby with ear pain from an ear infection. Homeopathic medicines are great for babies because they have no side effects and are completely safe.

my little one who's turning 15 months soon had her first 8 teeth erupt with no difficulty. she only had problems when 4 premolars where on their way. she was drooling and was even having fever. orajel helped her especially during the nighttime. during the day, i noticed that she was better if she chew on some ice chips. sometimes i would let her chew a washcloth from the freezer (i placed it in a sealed plastic bag first). i think the coldness of such things numbs the pain away.

I can totally feel ya on this one. My oldest child was 16 months old when he started to get any teeth, and when he did get them they were his 1st molars, and the night time teething was horrid. He stayed up and cried all night long, it was like boom when the lights went out, the pain got worse. Nothing seemed to soothe him but just rubbing my fingers in his mouth over his gums for what seemed like hours. My mother told me about using clove oil, it can be bought at any CVS, Wal-Greens, etc. You just wanna dulute it some and rub it on the gums. It tastes like crap but once the baby get's over the taste it seems to really work. My 17 month old daughter is going threw the same thing now, her teeth are tempermental, they seem to come to the gums and pretend to come in and the next day they are gone... and she goes threw this for like a week to two before it finally appears for good. What has worked for her is just mainly using tylenol. I give her a dose of that, and what is left on the dropper i put on my finger and rub on her gums, one dose of that she's good to go. She also likes to nibble on raw, washed carrots, and vanilla waffers. I've tried the teething rings, and teething toys they always seem to be to hard for both of my kids. The orajel and stuff always seemed like it was too much and burned both of my kids, they would spit and cry more.

I have three kids, and they were all different and every tooth is different. I found the one thing that worked with all of them was to wrap a cloth around an icecube and but a band or tie around it to hold the ice inside and let them chew on it. It gave them something cold to teeth on and the ice numbed their gums for a little while providing relief without ingested medication. I used orajel and ambesol jr on their gums before meals and alternated between tylenol and ibuprofen at night time or when the pain seemed to be worse than normal. Some kids will also run a fever or even get ear aches when they cut new teeth too, which is so much fun. My kids like the cheap icecube in a cloth way better than teething rings or hard plastic toys. I also tossed an empty tylenol bottle with the eyedropper dispenser down into my pocketbook or diaperbag so that if I got caught out with nothing for them to rub on their gums or teeth on I had a back up that wasn't a high dollar thing so if it got dropped or lost it was no big deal.

Aww, I remember the teething times. I used to use baby oragel for the pain or some tylenol or motrin. It usually passes once the tooth breaks all the way through but as parents its hard to watch out little ones hurt. Teething bisuits work well too, messy but help cut them in. Hope these ideas help.

Some teeth are harder to cut than others the larger they are the more they hurt obviously so if the tooth is a large one that might be why he is suffering more than last time. Teething powders are fantastic and all natural, infant paracetemol helps ease the pain or infant ibuprofen is better if the gum is swollen and sore. Something nice and cold to chew on and lots of cuddles xxx