As part of the development milestone, babies would really undergo the painful stage of teething. It is a phenomenon where discomfort is very common causing night troubles and sleeplessness. Though some parents are blessed with babies who will just grow teeth like nothing happens, painless teething happens one in a million cases.
Remember that teething is not an illness and therefore it should not be giving babies any problems aside from discomfort in the swollen gum area. Diarrhea and vomiting are two different things abd should be managed differently.
When teething occurs, you may apply some teething gels to numb the gums for few minutes. To avoid introducing any substance by mouth, you may use cold clean cloth. Teethers or teething rings can be used as well or simply let your finger be bitten. Just make sure that your finger is clean and well disinfected. Cold solid foods like chilled banana can also be served.
I was delighted to see on her first tooth and lately I saw a little white near on it. And you bet, it is already her second tooth! Now she has teeth (as it is already two, ha!). Smile. I like to make her smile since make her imitate me on how to show her teeth, she just show her tongue. Ha ha! But she still manage to smile and give laughs despite of her erupting teeth. I can tell her gums sore. Sooner or later, the other ones also will show. I cannot wait. :-) She just like to bite stuffs or lick (whew!) which signs of teething. So I am buying and giving her teethers. She likes the pacifier though. And I am always checking it if there is a sign of wear and tear to be safe. Ah, it just a happy moment for me. Oops, "moments" I mean. :-) She's just a doll. Not I am calling her a "big girl" because she has already a two teeth, one is showing big and the other little one. :-)
My lovely precious daughter Sam is fond of biting for quite how many days or weeks already before I can see her teeth came out. Actually her dad saw it first when it was little and told me, I just ignore since I can see it when it is already big anyway. In that way, the visibility thing is fronting my very own eyes then. True enough! As I told you earlier, she loves biting. Good thing she is still drinking her milk and even eating her food in a box, named rice and mixed fruit, though I did not give her yesterday since she has a pretty hard poop the last night. She poop twice. Then I give her milk and water often as long as likes drinking, as in I introduce it to her when she's resting from playing, or just anything she's having, like 30 minutes interval. And guess what? She poop the usual thing yesterday. Thanks to her daddy too for suggesting to let her rest of the food (or in my mind if I give her, I will put more milk on it, and so I opted the former and it worked, well, it should work either way since the goal is I have to give her more liquid).
Seeing her first tooth in her lower part of her gum is happiness. I am telling her that she's already old since she has already a tooth. Ha! what a great feeling!
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Dealing With Teething Troubles
