Jun
17
If you hear…
…a long, ascending wail, say about 7:30 a.m. False European Time, perhaps followed by the sound of mournful, furious typing, don’t be alarmed. It’s just my mother, realizing I don’t keep my promises.
{Confidential to you-know-who: Scott is working late; I’m on solo baby duty and typing this very very quickly while she wails, neglected, in the background. You wouldn’t want your only grandchild to be neglected any longer, would you? WOULD YOU?}
P.S. How long do molars take to finish erupting, exactly? Do they normally dawdle in this excruciating fashion? Simone’s gums look like they’re stuffed with marbles, and I miss that thing I used to do at night, with the closed eyes and slow breathing. Could I just dig them out on my own?
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This is probably a stupid question, but have you tried the Hyland teething tablets? http://www.hylands.com/products/teething.php
My youngest recently cut his two-year molars (that’s right, you get to do this again, woo-hoo) and we dug these out and they seemed to help him.
Honestly, molars were no big deal here. It’s the canines that have taken about a month each to erupt. They suck.
Teeth. Worst things ever.
Molars were a come and go kind of thing. Just when it seemed like maybe the worst had passed, there they would be again, making trouble. It seemed like it took months, and she drooled far longer than I thought kids were supposed to.
Molars take forEVER, I’m sad to say. Advil and frozen washcloths (for chewing, not bracing facials). That’s the ticket.
I used advil and chilled teething rings a long time ago!
Yes and yes I’m afraid. Oh and no!
Yes. With a grapefruit spoon.
Well, only in your mind.
I’ll just tell you what the nurse told me: “You know, the vast majority of children aren’t that bothered by teething, but apparently Fitz-Hume is, well, one of THOSE children.”
Yes, yes she is. She starts screaming and stops eating before the teeth even get close to the surface. I think they may still be in her colon at this point, but try telling HER that.
Marjorie’s molars seemed to come up, go down, come up, go down, for-freaking-ever! Once they broke through the gums then things improved. We had a solid month of sleeping again and now we are starting the eye teeth. Those are way worse, so be ready. Lots and lots of tylenol is all that has worked. Now she also has an ear infection on top of getting these stupid teeth though so that is even more fun.
Good luck.
Alexa,
I know something that will help Simone’s molars! A foot-long corn dog from the Back To The Fifties Car show at the fairgrounds in St. Paul. We’re going. Tillie’s first solids might have to be fried cheese curds. They would be if I were any sort of good mother.
A long damn time. My 14 month old has one molar. One. I’ve been thinking surgical extraction in Mexico for the other three, just to save us both the misery.
Three molars and two canines erupting at the same time here. She doesn’t wail, but has gone on a nice little hunger strike. Pretty.
Molars SUCK. Well, they chew. But whatever. Flann’s first set erupted at exactly twelve months, and he refused to eat anything but milk and applesauce the whole…freaking…time. Eventually they popped through and he did not die of malnutrition.
Comfort yourself that you’ve got only one more set of molars to go (it’s a truly brilliant evolutionary plan that babies have so many fewer teeth than adults; if they had to crop out our number, they’d probably not survive to be preschoolers), and those won’t pop through for six to twelve more months. Months of, hopefully, blessed peace.
poor baby. I hope they burst through quickly.
“Intelligent Design,” my ass!
I hate teething! We have been working on MT’s molars for 4 months now. They sweel up like you speak of, then they go down for a week or two, then the madness starts all over again!
Wishing you more success than us!