You may be familiar with the following signs of teething: irritability, drooling, sleeplessness, biting or chewing on everything, low-grade fever, diarrhea, ear pulling. We feel so helpless when our babies are in pain, but be careful about turning to medication too soon. There are many others ways to soothe sore gums without medicine.
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Try some of these medicine-free teething solutions:
- Frozen Wash Cloth: Wet a clean wash cloth and freeze it. Then, let your baby chew on it to soothe sore gums.
- Chilled Food: Try serving yogurt, chilled diced fruit (peaches, apples, bananas, etc.).
- Cold Water: Give your little one a sippy with ice water throughout the day. It will help replace some of the fluid loss of drooling and loose stools as well as provide more comfort on her mouth.
- Chilled Teethers: Simply keep a few teethers
in the refrigerator. Take them out when needed. Be sure to wash them thoroughly before placing them back in the refrigerator.
- Teething Tablets: We have used teething tablets
- Extra Attention: No matter what solution you try, your baby will likely still need extra “mommy love” during teething. Let a few things go and rock your baby, read to him, sing to him. That may be just what he needs.
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Only Baltic teething necklace. I recommend latvianamberstore.com they sell real Baltic amber from Baltic region. price just about $15.
It came in the post very quickly and shortly after putting it on my daughter was noticeably calmer! and I haven’t needed to keep buying to other Daugherty!
My son had an amber necklace from 4 months till he was just over two and we never had any problem with teething.
I bought one because I was living in Latvia at the time, and lots of kids there wore them, I had a least 5 people recommend one.
Best local internet store is Latvian Amber Store, they sell just authentic Baltic Amber.
There is link: http://www.latvianamberstore.com/#ecwid:category=2072066&mode=category&offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
The amber needs to be warmed by the body heat to work (or so I was told) so if you want to remove them for sleeping make a little pouch in their blanket.
I’ve used an amber teething necklace with my youngest daughter and I think they do wonders! they have saved me lots of money as Camilia is not cheap. When looking at the different options it was important to me that I choose the safest, most natural products.
A European friend suggested it to me because my daughter was having alot of teething distress. Apparently in Europe they are such a common remedy that they are sold in drug stores.
I bought mine from a Latvian online store called Latvian Amber Store:
http://www.latvianamberstore.com/#ecwid:category=2072066&mode=category&offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
Teething tablets and extra cuddles = perfect combination.
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