When I first suspected that Noah showed his first signs of teething he was only three months old, but he was drooling a lot, and sticking his hands in his mouth. I asked the Doc about it and he said "The teething process has started, but don't expect any teeth till about six or seven months." Well, that was just bad advice by the doc! Noah popped his two bottom front teeth at four months! And I was completely blind sighted by it! I had no clue! My poor sweet boy was waking up several times during the night and I just kept nursing him or giving him a bottle thinking he was hungry! We had a two week stretch that was pretty bad where Noah was up every night crying. Dave and I were walking zombies! It was bad! And the entire time, I'm researching online about sleep regression, and I'm adding cereal to his night bottle thinking gees this boy is so HUNGRY! Nope, that wasn't it! He was teething! UGH! Poor little guy! All he needed was some orajel or some tylenol and he would have been fine! Duh!?!?!
So I was a little more prepared when he started to cut what appeared to be the other two bottom front teeth. You could see the gum was getting white and he was drooling like crazy (he lives with a waterproof bib on). And even at Noah's six month check up his doc said "Yup, it looks like two more bottom teeth are coming through soon." HA! Wrong again Doc! After four weeks of teething and numerous nights awake with my boy so cranky he finally cut two TOP teeth! Out of no where! Here I am putting orajel on the bottom and he cuts the top two! This is ridiculous!
I am still pretty sure that he's working on two more on that bottom row so he's been cutting four teeth at once! No wonder he's been so cranky! Poor guy was so bad for a week, he had a low fever and would not let us put him down! He had to be in our arms or he was not happy. And it's not easy carrying around a 20 lb baby all the time!
So my question for all of you experienced mom's and dad's....IS IT LIKE THIS FOR EVERY TOOTH!?!?!? Please say no!
"How about I use daddy's expensive remote as a teether? I'm sure he won't mind!"
There's the bottom two teethers on my chubby munkey!
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