I am fairly certain that baby teeth are the work of the
devil. God was creating these perfect little humans and the big D came in and
had to put his nasty sprinkle of awfulness into the mix. Poor tinygirl has been
cutting teeth for the past week and she is no less than super pissed.
She is pretty normal during the day—happy, playing and
crawling. But when it comes time for bedtime, ho-ly crap, she is not a happy
camper. I have tried every trick in the book. Cold teethers, Orajel, teething
tablets, baby motrin, sophie, cold things in her mesh teether—basically whatever I can get my hands on to help
her not be miserable at night.
The only thing that semi calms her down is
bringing her in bed with us. I really don’t want to start doing that and getting
her used to it because, well, I like my bed, and my husband. I also want to
continue to sleep like a starfish and not have to worry about rolling over and
pancaking my child. [I know co-sleeping works for some people—that’s super
cool—I am just not one of those people, no judgement do what makes you happy]
Also, 2 weekends ago we went to the lake with our friends.
We had a ton of fun but when I got home I noticed that tiny lady had these
crazy bumps on her!! We took her to the doctor and they said she had Chiggers!!
Meeehhhhh. After putting Hydrocortisone on them, I did some research and people
had been saying, “put clear nail polish on them-it will suffocate the chigger
and then they will heal” I thought that was crazy but hey it worked.
I am hoping that right now we are just in the perfect storm
of her sucking at sleeping because honestly, I am exhausted. We are all
exhausted. We may be getting about 3-4
hours of sleep a night for the past 2 weeks. I don’t know about y’all but I
don’t operate that way. I have been living on 4 cups of coffee and broken
dreams. I am just hoping she pops her little self right out of this torture
soon before we all go berserk. Any thoughts on how to help tame this tooth beast that is hurting my princess?
Do great things!
Linds
We use a Baltic amber teething necklace and little man hasn't had any issues. Some ppl don't believe they do anything but it's working for us. You want unpolished/raw and the darker the better :) my dad told me burbon in the bottle but I'm not into wasting it lol ;)
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