the newbie: Teething
By Melissa Walker, who can also be found blogging at melissacwalker.com
It’s kind of amazing that June is almost 13 months and I haven’t had a real issue with teething yet, but she’s been pretty tough about the whole thing. She’s got five teeth now (three on top, two on the bottom!) and there must be more coming in this week because… it’s grump city.
The drooling, the biting, the screaming… it’s all happening. I suddenly know why people talk about teething like it’s a true hardship. Miss June is acting like she’s had a personality transplant with a very cranky baby!
We have some baby Tylenol for her, but I don’t like to give it to her too often, and I’ve got chilled teething rings and all the accessories I can think of, but I wonder if there’s a magic teething technique that this first-time mom is unaware of.
If you have some ideas to share, please do–for now, I’ll get back to my vampire almost-toddler and try to distract her, while dodging the rivers of drool.
