Brauers Teething Relief Question

[Heaven]

For those of you who've used it, does it make bubs sleepy?

DD has been sleeping really badly for the last week or 2 and also grumpy during the day and I was wondering if the problem was maybe some teeth moving around in there, though I can't see anything. She usually wakes up a couple of times in the night but goes straight back to sleep with a feed but lately she's been a nightmare and sometimes up for hrs before we can get her back to sleep and waking every 1-2hrs!!!!!!!

She is chewing on everything and drooly but she has been like that for a while. Lately when feeding she has also been chomping down on my nipple (ouch!) and she's also been pulling her ears so I thought well maybe it is teething. So I gave her some of the Brauers one night to see if it would help and she slept sooooooo good, only woke once!! I've given it to her a couple of other nights too and she has slept better than usual.

But now I feel guilty (as you do, lol ). I'm not sure that it's teeth or anything, I can't see anything on her gums at all. So does the Brauers just make her sleepy?? Then I just feel like I'm sedating her with medication or something so I can get some more sleep when she doesn't really need it, lol. Does that make sense?

DH is all for giving it to her every night, pmsl.

[MamaPan]

i dont find it makes ds sleepy ie if i give it to him in the day he isnt sleepy... but if he is teething and i notice early enough to do it before bed he sleeps a lot better...
i find it works best when i do it before he wakes screaming... when he is showing signs it will be a bad night bc of teething e.g. drooling, irritable, biting, red cheeks etc. he is a bit older though so the signs are easier to spot.

[STARRYSKY]

I have noticed that too! mind you with homeopathic medications there is so little of the actives in there.....? I dont know, I mean the teething one has belladonna in it which is prob waht makes them sleepy.
my ds started crying in his sleep when he started teething around 3 months, a month later two popped up!
look at it this way, its gotta be better than dosing them up with panadol every night.

[Heaven]

Yeah, definitely better than panadol. I just wish I knew if it was definitely teeth or not bc then I wouldn't feel bad about it bc there would be a reason for giving it to her iykwim. Just don't want to be giving it to her for no reason or just coz I want her to sleep better.

Would be good to know if she's sleeping better bc it takes away the pain (if she's in pain?) or bc it just makes her sleepy.

[STARRYSKY]

its so heartbreaking hearing them scream and cry like that, especially when you dont know what it is. it does sound to me like shes teething, same things my ds was doing anyway.
he is getting his top 2 atm, some nights I want to wake him up and give him something cos hes whimpering, but I dont want to wake him for nothing kwim?

[Heaven]

Anyone else used it?

[Lulu]

Hun, do you understand the principles of homoepathic remedies?

You aren't drugging her in any way shape or form, it appears that the remedy is the correct one. If it wasn't, it wouldn't work.

Panadol etc is different. Panadol doesn't even sedate children (does it?).

Google homeopathy to get the principles, then you won't feel bad about giving her RELIEF from the pain!

xoxoxox

[Arimeh]

And don't forget SJ - even though you may not see any teeth - it still causes them pain when the teeth are moving around in the gums. So you may not be able to see any teeth, but that doesn't mean that they aren't there!

[fionas]

When DD started teething she was waking up after each sleep cycle (so every 40 mins) and it would take her 30 mins to get back to sleep. Doing that for several nights wasn't much fun for me or her.

I found the Brauers FANTASTIC. She slept really well with it. I recommend it to everyone.

[Heaven]

Hun, do you understand the principles of homoepathic remedies?

You aren't drugging her in any way shape or form, it appears that the remedy is the correct one. If it wasn't, it wouldn't work.

Nope, I don't understand it, I have no idea really, lol. That's what I was wondering, if it works does that mean that there is something the matter and it's helping. Thanks so much, I shall google it!

And don't forget SJ - even though you may not see any teeth - it still causes them pain when the teeth are moving around in the gums. So you may not be able to see any teeth, but that doesn't mean that they aren't there!

Thanks Mel, maybe that's it then, they're just moving round getting ready to come through! I was just also thinking she's so young to be getting teeth already!!

When DD started teething she was waking up after each sleep cycle (so every 40 mins) and it would take her 30 mins to get back to sleep. Doing that for several nights wasn't much fun for me or her.

Yeah, that's what's happening, not fun at all!!

[ezymay]

Yep HEaven I have used it! Its good stuff! But since Emily doesn't have any teeth yet (she is 10 months) and not really any signs of any coming up so I have switched to the Brauers "calm". It works well for us seems to relax her.

[Heaven]

Thanks ezymay, I might check that out aswell!!

Interesting:

The law of similars

The first and most important "natural law" expressed by Hahnemann, the one from which homeopathy derives its name, is similia similibus curentur?let like cure like. This means that the appropriate substance to treat a disease is one which induces similar symptoms in a healthy person. Then, it is crucial to know the symptoms associated with various substances, remedial pathogeneses. They are to be determined by drug provings on healthy persons, in which subjects take the remedy and record all physical, mental, emotional and modal changes in symptoms.

Does that mean if I was to give it to her when she actually wasn't teething it would just make her more unsettled rather than making her better?

[Lulu]

Well it hasn't

Kids can have the symptoms of teething long before they make an appearance. All mine show classic symptoms at 3 months for a few weeks but nothing shows up until at least 5 months

These type of remedies are best prescribed for the individual BUT since many of the symptoms are the same it can work over the counter so to speak.

Next - google/wiki one of the ingredients (it will look like a weird language - nux vomica etc) and it will likely tell you what it addresses so you can see why they put it in.

*sorry, got a ph call from the MIL in the middle of that, I've lost my train of thought...

[diva det]

they work with the body, not against them- so if they are not needed, they will do no harm. Have used bottles of the brauer teething stuff on the twins- swear by them
their teeth do heaps of moving before they actually come through- sometimes the moving is more painful than the cutting
have you also considered an amber necklace as well
HTH and you are doing all the right things!!
mwah

[Heaven]

No, it seems to be working so maybe that's bc it is teething, hmm...

OMG do not google belladonna

[Heaven]

det- yep, have an amber bracelet on the way!!

[Lulu]

He heeee hee!

In trace amounts its ok - it's almost a memory of the belladonna within the remedy though

[STARRYSKY]

yeah, the belladonna sound scary doesnt it! some cough and cold preparations still contain extracts of it, but like lulu said its like almost nothing (love the clinical terminology!) in the teething stuff.
I really like their colic one too, works wonders.