HELP - back teeth teething!

[tgm1974]

Does anyone know of anything else beside Calpol or Medised that will knock my 11 month old out of a night ... he has just come out of a 4 week cold/ear infection and now his back teeth are coming through.

Nothing I seem to use is helping ...

ANYONE GOT ANY TRIED AND TESTED REMEDIES!

Thanks

Ms Death Warmed Up!!

[annie0000]

Cant remember whether medised is paracetemol or ibuprofen based, but you can use both calpol and any brufen based painkiller (calbrufen/nurofen for kids) at the same time - i.e. a dose of Calpol and then in between doses they can have a dose of brufen.

However, It may not necesarily be that his teeth are bothering him - the back teeth don't tend to cause the same problems as the front. It sounds like he has got into a waking habit with not being well and although he would normally sleep through any pain from his back teeth, he is more aware of it because he is already waking.

I don't think that there is any substitute for just trying to get back into a good sleeping routine which you are probably already doing, so sorry if I am teaching my granny to suck eggs!

There is no substitute for a warm bath, warm milk, quite time (no tv, dim light etc) then into a nice warmed cot.

[tgm1974]

Oh that last par sounds tempting to me as I sit with stinging eyes in work.

Yes I am currently camping out at the side of his bed to get him back into his fab routine before he got sick - its been a long week so far. I will win though as my partner is telling me how my son is going to be an only child with the way he has been lately - LOL!

I normally do the quiet time, bottle stuff but dont always get to do the warm bath each night ... he is very excitable in the water!!

Thanks again - may just pop the chemist to stack up on seditives (for me)!!

[annie0000]

Awww - i remember the days like that - my boys are 8 and 7 now and we were very luck y that they were both good sleepers, it was really only when they were ill that we would have those nights - thankfully not too often.

It is hard when you are working as well.

I remember gazing wistfully across at a neighbours house (I could see into her living room) and she was lounging about with a magazine and a bottle of wine in her pristine living room. I on the other hand had two babies that I was trying to get to bed having been at work all day and my other half had looked after them and then gone to work when I got home. They were both screaming, the house was a tip, I'd had no dinner and had work again the next day!

It does however get a lot less physically demanding as they grow older. Tell your other half not to be a wimp - of course your wee one needs a brother or sister - far easier in the long run believe me!

[terambulan]

If the cheeks are red then its teething. There was a tube of jelly medication which cooled babies gums. Or some teething rings can be chilled in fridge for babe to chew on.

Crying babes often sleep with a brisk 'pram-walk' outdoors.

[tgm1974]

He will go to bed between 7.30-8.30pm, no problem. Its the 2am ... 5am times that he can wake and be crying, crawling around his cot with his head down .... etc. It was only last night that he was on the floor with me to which I thought he would fall asleep within 10 mins ... 1hr 20 mins later he fell asleep ........ then the alarm went off!!!

Im going for the hot bath, lavendar oil, maybe a massage, bottle and bed later ... dont care how long it takes x

[natalie_1982]

Hi tgm, my six month old is teething at the moment (her first teeth at the front). She has also had a cough, a cold, and diahorrea and sickness, all in the space of a fortnight - oh what a happy household we have had lol!

Before getting poorly she would have her bath and be in bed by 6:30 and sleep thru til 7am, but since she has been ill she has been clingy and wakes thru the night. I would say it is just a case of sticking with it. Last night I was up on the hour every hour (like you, I am currently falling asleep into my keyboard at work) but it is getting easier to get her back to sleep. She doesn't moan or seem to want anything when she wakes but thinks it's playtime lol.

When she was very poorly / painful gums, the pharmacist gave us Calpol Night which helped tremendously, she would still stir in the night but easily settled and go back off quickly. I would stay just stick with that routine and be tough, you're doing really well, eventually he will be back in his old routine xx